Business Development Internship

5 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa The Intern Collab Full time

We are looking for a career driven, enthusiastic and highly organised individual to join one of our partner companies as a business development intern. You will have the opportunity to put theory into practice, develop your confidence, build up your CV in specific to your field of interest, increase your marketability, build personal connections, and experience work dynamics in a collaborative and supportive environment.
- **Little help to understand the difference between Sales and Business Development**:_

Direct Sales: Sell directly to another company, repeat a similar cycle. This usually requires building an internal sales team and hiring more people.

Business Development: Build strategic partnerships to reach other companies' audiences. Partner with other companies to add value to your customers.

**Requirements**:

- BCom **or **undergraduate degree **or** 1 year experience in Business Development.
- Advanced level of Excel proficiency (key requirement).
- Self-starter who takes initiative and is able to manage own time to achieve goals and deadlines.
- **Excellent level of comfort in financial and numerical analysis.**:

- Ability to work in a team - proven cross-functionality skills.

Duties and Responsibilities (Including but not limited to)
- Assist sales team and business heads in South Africa, Ghana and Kenya.
- Generating leads with the aim of facilitating meetings to achieve growth in sales.
- Maintain accuracy and effectively manage the CRM system.
- Generating daily activity reports for work completed each day.
- Act as a first point of contact for assistance to affiliates with regards to the companies Media collateral.
- Assist in data clean-up and facilitation for pre-existing data to imported into the new CRM system
- Search for new potential clients for the various business units/lead generation through various platforms
- Set up meetings for the sales team.
- Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry; researching and analyzing sales options.
- Negotiate with companies, executive-level employees and understanding companies purchasing cycles.
- Understand and navigate the decision-making processes of the client, and successfully close agreements and big deals to maximum profit.
- Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships with key decision-makers such as (CTO, Network Directors, Network procurement, etc ) by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new opportunities; recommending profit and service improvements.
- Meet contact expectations as set for your account base.
- Achieving set targets KPIs
- Have a desire to professionally and personally develop.
- Assist with Ad-hoc requests
- Observing best business practices and etiquette

**Skills**:

- Must have strong computer skills - Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint experience is vital.
- Proactive approach problem solving and the ability to multitask
- Works well under pressure and within deadlines - level headed and able to prioritise tasks
- Must have strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Impeccable time management and organizational skills
- Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities
- Capacity to quickly learn new concepts, technologies, skills, and the ability to multi-task.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Internship
Contract length: 6 months

**Salary**: R6,000.00 - R8,000.00 per month



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