Paid Summer Business, Sales, & Leadership Internship

Job Description

Paid Summer Business, Sales, & Leadership Internship | Southwestern Advantage

The Tone:
This is a paid summer internship at Southwestern Advantage, located in another state with housing provided. Southwestern Advantage offers educational products to families. This role is designed for ambitious college students to build real-world business, sales, and leadership skills. Interns will operate like their own independent business, gaining hands-on experience in direct sales and entrepreneurship.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Seasonal
• Location: Remote

• Mission: To provide college students with an unparalleled opportunity to develop business, sales, and leadership skills by operating like their own independent business, focusing on consultative selling of educational products.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Consultative Sales: Engage in consultative sales with families from diverse economic backgrounds to understand their needs.
• Customer Communication: Communicate effectively with anywhere from 2,000 to 5,000 families to build rapport.
• Relationship Building: Create strong relationships and build trust with customers to facilitate sales.
• Product Sales: Conduct direct sales of educational products to meet customer needs.
• Business Operations Management: Execute all aspects of your business operations, including ordering, inventory management, sales execution and tracking, accounting, financial management, scheduling customer interactions, and product delivery.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Must be a college student or college graduate. Career level: Early Career. Education requirement + core domain knowledge: Eager to learn and develop business skills.
• Experience: No specific prior years of experience required.
• Skills: Possess a positive attitude, be goal-oriented and driven, demonstrate strong personal motivation, exhibit a strong work ethic, be teachable and coachable, and capable of being an independent decision-maker.
• Bonus: Opportunity to earn optional 3 upper division transferable college credits for Communications and Marketing majors.