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Business Development Intern

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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We’re looking for a Business Development Intern to join Productpine, preferably for a minimum of 4 months. As a member of the Sales team, you will work in an exciting and fast-paced start-up environment together with a highly skilled team.

Job description

As a Business Development Intern, your goal is to boost the growth of Productpine by getting in touch with the best consumer brands in the world and signing them as long-term partners. By doing so, you enable brands to achieve more growth in their direct-to-consumer channel, so that these brands can increasingly be discovered by consumers. You will support, manage, and grow partnerships with global consumer brands in different industries, ranging from consumer electronics, fashion, home, design to cosmetics.

Productpine is seeking a high-energy Business Development Intern for the Dutch market with a passion for sales and brand partnerships. The successful individual will be a deal-closer that is eager to operate in a fast-paced sales environment in a fast-growing start-up, while working in a growing team of business developers. This individual is proactive and has excellent verbal and written-communication skills. He or she is high in energy and works extremely efficiently to get the job done.

You will be part of a growing team and report directly to Productpine’s Business Developer(s), who will assist you in spotting new partnership opportunities and boosting the success of our current partners. Exciting stuff, right?

Responsibilities

  • You research and identify new potential partners through subscribed databases, LinkedIn, events, and referrals;
  • You learn to work with CRM tools such as HubSpot, and you generate personalized e-mail campaigns;
  • You connect with prospects by calling, emailing, or engaging on social media, with the goal to close deals with these prospects;
  • You contribute to the weekly goals of the Business Development team, such as booked discovery calls and opportunities generated;
  • You develop an understanding of the Productpine value proposition and the value it creates for our customers;
  • You analyze the latest retail and e-commerce trends and developments in the market;
  • You perform market and competition analyses;
  • You discuss marketing opportunities with current brands and support them in day-to-day business.

Who are you?

  • You are fluent in Dutch and have a professional command of the English language.
  • You are a HBO or WO student.
  • You are interested in e-commerce and digital environments.
  • You have a 'can-do' mentality, you want to learn and are proactive.
  • You see a perfect fit with our core values: entrepreneurial, solution-orientated, resilient, sincerity and passion.

What do we offer

  • A monthly internship allowance;
  • Practical experience in business development for a fast-growing e-commerce marketplace;
  • A fast-growing start-up environment that gives you the space to think independently and explore your potential;
  • Remote working model but opportunity to go to the office in Amsterdam;
  • Space to discover what you like to do, to think creatively and to take initiative;
  • Personal development within the company and many career opportunities;
  • An informal and international environment, with a bright and young team;
  • Feeling like you’re part of one of the largest and most important movements in the commerce space, that truly adds value to the world.

Productpine is a fast-growing Amsterdam-headquartered start-up. We help direct-to-consumer brands thrive and consumers improve their consumption decisions. With 90 active brands on our platform and over 600 brands on the waiting list, we are entering a period of rapid growth and are inviting you to be part of it. We have raised seed funding from established investors (previously invested in Pinterest, Wish, and Classpass), well-known entrepreneurs, and executives (eBay, Afterpay, HomeToGo).

Retail
Amsterdam
Active in 2 countries
18 employees
70% men - 30% women
Average age is 28 years

What employees are saying

Brian

Store Manager

Brian

Being responsible for the experience we create for customers. Encouraging employees to grow. Translating our vision into something tangible. Being a part of a young, adventurous and innovative team. All of that within an innovative environment. Every day brings a new challenge.

Ana

Graphic Designer

Ana

Productpine cares about our goals, helps us to achieve them in the best way as well as to improve and be better day by day. Here you will have a team of young professionals ready to make a company grow but also the people who they work with.