Sales & Business Development Internship Graduation Internship Full Time Internship

At blackbear, you will impact the world’s marketplace for skills while being part of an ambitious, hardworking pack of bears. Are you ready to pull out your claws as a Sales Development Representative Intern? Then don’t hesitate to read further!👇

🐻 About blackbear

blackbear is a marketplace that empowers people to deliver great solutions to issues facing businesses. Our output-driven payment model guarantees companies value for money and provides Solvers with independence from ‘hourly billing’.

Our pack identifies itself as open, unique, human, passionate, and connecting. We believe skills and knowledge should always be shared, that is why we strive to become the leading SaaS driven marketplace enabling people to make an income remotely, where we guarantee companies value through the convenience of paying for quality instead of by the hour. By having such an adaptable blackbear pack of colleagues we are able to grow fast internationally, while having fun too. We work to live, so why not do it together as a pack! We have a nice spacious office in which you are always welcome. Working from home or partly remote is possible too, but to be honest, the office is just too much fun so we often can’t resist it.

🙌 The Challenge

You’ll join the Sales team, known as the growth engine of the bear pack. Currently Sales is our largest team and with 20+ passionate professionals we push the boundaries of blackbear’s growth. The Sales Development team hunts new opportunities by finding and connecting with qualified buyers. The Account Executive team brings in the revenue by closing deals from their opportunity pipeline. Sales Operations supports this all and makes sure our engine runs smoothly and efficiently.

We are a fast faced, people-centric team, in which we praise our top contributors, but stay aware that our strength comes from excelling together as a team.

What you’ll do

• Reaching out to (potential) leads by email campaigns;
• Not afraid to pick up the phone (cold-calling, lead nurturing, etc.);
• Work in LinkedIn Sales Navigator for social selling;
• Customer contact and devising/executing acquisition strategies;
• Mastering your administrative skills within HubSpot, our CRM System;
• Booking qualified introductions for the Account Executive team.

🤩 What you’ll bring

Aside from the blackbear mindset we need you to bring the following skills and knowledge to strengthen our pack:

• Available from September 2022;
• Currently studying at hbo level in a business or commercial direction;
• Some experience in sales is a plus;
• Affinity for working with metrics and targets;
• Native Dutch speaker and English working proficiency;
• You know how to convince people and are not afraid of cold-calling;
• Available for at least 3 days per week;
• You are located in The Netherlands.

✅ What’s in it for you?

We truly value interns at blackbear, we work with passion towards our goals and you are key in reaching those. Therefore, we provide the following:

• Internship compensation of €400,- per month on a fulltime basis;
• Team guidance and support throughout the full internship;
• Assigned mentor to support with learning objectives;
• Opportunity to work on school related projects;
• Healthy lunches are provided at the office;
• Legendary Friday afternoon drinks and legendary bear events!

We believe in having a fun, hardworking and passionate team, who celebrate all successes, big or small!

Ready to kickstart your blackbear journey? Get in touch through the application button sharing your cv and a short motivation!

Great organizations are built on great people and we want to hire the best people. At blackbear we embrace diversity and encourage everybody to join our team.