Sales Intern

Job Description

About Company

STEEL OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC. is located at 17th St and 2nd Ave, behind the Weisberg Family Engineering Building. It is an affiliated entity of Steel Dynamics, Inc.

Job Description, Detailed

This is an intern position within the Sales Department.

Responsibilities:
• Order Management System: Learn and utilize the company’s order management system, encompassing tasks such as order entry, inventory management, tracking shipment schedules, forecasting, and pricing.
• Analytical Exposure: Gain exposure to capacity planning, margin analysis, and handling customer claims.
• Customer Communication: Manage and maintain a customer contact file to facilitate monthly pricing communication. Ensure the proper preparation and distribution of these communication sheets to all customers.
• Marketing & Advertising Support: Assist with preparing and distributing press releases. Contribute to broader marketing and advertising efforts, including preparation for trade conventions, managing customer gifts, and preparing brochures, letters, and videos for customer presentations.
• Primary Tasks: A significant portion of the intern’s time will be dedicated to handling incoming telephone calls from customers, managing mass customer mailings, emails, and faxes, and performing order entry tasks.
• Communication Skills: Must possess a good command of language, grammar, and telephone etiquette. The role requires the ability to effectively interface with various internal groups such as accounting, production, and engineering. Strong written communication skills are also necessary, as some letter writing is involved.
• Work Environment: The role offers valuable resume-building experience and is described as a fun job with nice colleagues.

Qualifications:
• Preferred Majors: Candidates are preferably Business, Marketing, or Public Relations majors. Other majors may be considered.
• Academic Level: Sophomore or Junior year students are preferred.
• Skills: Must demonstrate good communication skills, be detail-oriented, and possess a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Pre-employment: Must pass a drug screen.