Your role and responsibilities
As a Digital Sales Specialist Intern, your primary goal will be to qualify leads and convert them into new business opportunities. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the Sales team advising and supporting on new business engagements throughout the critically important early phases of the sales cycle and helping to lead prospects to our award-winning solutions.
Your primary responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
- Sales Prospecting: Apply IBM’s sales methodology to identify new clients and opportunities for expansion with existing clients through multiple channels (email, phone, video creation, social media) - this includes a considerable amount of cold calling.
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated and continually improve your expertise to become a trusted expert for clients.
- Support Deal Closure: Engage IBM partners and your extended team to jointly progress and close deals.
- Social Selling: Engage in social selling activities to build thought leadership and influence potential clients.
This could include recording video outreach campaigns, social media posts, etc. To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Confidence to contact and engage potential new customers and deliver an elevated experience.
- Motivation to achieve sales, business objectives and high client satisfaction.
- Aptitude to utilize selling technologies to network, engage clients, and identify new business opportunities.
- Embrace curiosity and a growth mindset.
You may work with any of the following technologies: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Automation,
Cloud, Security, Sustainability, or Systems Hardware.
Readiness to travel up to 10% annually
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Actively Enrolled: Registered undergraduate or graduate university student.
- Education: Seeking B.S. or M.S.degree in Business, Communications, International Relations, Management Information Systems (MIS), Engineering or similar disciplines.
- Client Focused: Asks open-ended questions and understands needs to address business challenges.
- Team Player: Demonstrates team collaboration and can navigate different communication styles.
- Excellent Communication Skills: Possess verbal, written, and interpersonal skills that are engaging, compelling and influential.
- Self-Starter: Motivated to work with clients and can lead projects independently.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Prior work experience in client sales or service.
