Business Development Intern

**Your mission**:
**Sales Execution**: Learn how to run sales operations by working hands-on with potential new customers
- Test and implement ways to generate new outbound leads
- Reach out to decision makers proactively via phone, mail, and social media
- Prepare and develop sales and RFP (request for proposal) material
- Prepare calling scripts and templates

**Strategy & Business Development**: Help to build up and lead our B2B sales organization ready for scaling
- Present our product at industry-related fairs and conferences
- Align with our marketing team on how to generate more inbound leads
- Explore customer needs and develop ways to address them with our product team

**Your profile**:
**How you can contribute**
Sales is the most important function to unleash the potential of a great product. You will work closely with our experienced business development managers as well as with the founders. You will learn to identify, evaluate, and act on business development opportunities. By working hands on, you keep our sales operations and the overall business running. Moreover, you can contribute to establishing a data-driven B2B sales organization. You are the first point of interaction with our customers and work with them to understand their needs and solve their pains.

**Let's talk about you**
- You are motivated to build something from scratch and do not hesitate to get your hands dirty
- You have strong communication skills in writing and in person in German
- You like talking to people and are disciplined so customers can rely on you

**About us**:
**What we do**
We are a Munich-based startup with a mission to build sustainable supply chains by developing intelligent software for industrial procurement. In our company, we believe the next wave of technical progress will reshape the industrial world. Therefore, we aim to build sustainable supply chains in close collaboration with the backbone of Europe _-_ industrial SMEs.

**Why it matters**:

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Powering the industry that builds the world**:We create a new wave of innovation by lifting Europe’s industrial backbone with tens of millions of workers to the digital era
- ** Enabling powerful business collaboration**: We enable powerful collaboration among supplier networks as the basis for future economic growth
- ** Saving resources in supply chains**: We optimize the 50-80% of costs and emissions of physical products originating from suppliers to enhance sustainable growth

**Why you should consider joining**
- ** Timing**: Our product manages hundreds of millions of € of material to manufacture physical products from bread cutters to medical technology. The Industrial Mittelstand trusts us and we are ready to scale Join us to shape the future of our organization & product
- ** Top investors believe in us**: We are supported by first-class investors such as Cherry Ventures, Visionaries Club, UVC Partners as well as the founders of Personio, GetYourGuide, Helsing & Forto. Join us to show them they invested wisely
- ** Team**: We are an interdisciplinary and international (6 nations already) team that is highly motivated to succeed, but loves to laugh. Join us to grow personally as well as professionally, accelerated by our supportive culture that includes everyone.
- ** Impact**: We are reshaping industrial procurement, which is the biggest value driver of manufacturing companies - there is no physical product in the world without procurement involved. Join us to future-proof the most important economic sector in Germany with over 10 million employees.