Catawiki Live Commercial Intern

Catawiki is a marketplace for buying and selling special objects, with more than 100,000 unique items auctioned each week and curated by in-house experts.

About the role and team

We are looking for a Commercial Intern to support a key growth initiative at Catawiki: Catawiki Live.

Catawiki Live amplifies regular auction dynamics through live streams where sellers and users gather around live-shopping format auctions.

As a Commercial Intern, you will help build a strong seller lead pipeline for Catawiki Live, conduct seller onboardings, and support the scaling of this initiative through seller analytics, insights, and guidance to sellers towards growth.

You will help generate sustainable revenue opportunities by opening conversations with new sellers that the Business Development team will work on to turn into committed and fast-growing sellers. Your focus areas will be experienced live-shopping sellers across Europe.

You will get to learn about the Commercial function at a marketplace, including Sales and Category Management, focused on the early stages of sellers’ journey. You will be part of the team leading a key growth initiative of a scale-up.

What you’ll do

• Identify, qualify and develop leads through online monitoring, calls, email and collaboration with sales representatives and experts
• Identify and activate high-potential leads for Catawiki Live
• Onboard new sellers onto Catawiki Live, educating them on how to successfully sell on Catawiki Live specifically
• Facilitate a frictionless pre- and post-Live experience for new sellers
• In cooperation with experts, quickly learn the important characteristics of categories
• Work in sync with internal stakeholders to develop growth plans for onboarded sellers
• Build educational content for the Catawiki Live Seller Academy about how to sell on Catawiki Live and how to maximize sales through Live auctions

Who you are

• You are a bachelor/HBO or master student in Business or related studies
• You are enrolled at an educational institution in the Netherlands for the entire duration of the internship
• Have prior working experience, such as an internship or other work experience
• Strong commercial mindset and communication skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving attitude
• A passion for the online industry, or perhaps a collection yourself, so that you are able to understand the language of sellers
• Familiar with G Suite tools such as Google Sheets and Slides
• Knowledge of online streaming platforms such as Twitch, Whatnot and TikTok is a plus
• Fluent in English and in one other European language, such as Dutch, Italian, French, German or Spanish