Job Description:

This Office Sales Intern position will assist the professional and highly successful sales staff in promoting our business and recruiting new clients. Selected candidate will generate new and expanded recruitment revenue and market share by developing and maintaining relationships with clients, potential clients, and diverse companies. Leads are provided, but prospecting skills are also very important. Each candidate should have familiarity with:

• Business development techniques
• Cold calling techniques
• Prospecting
• Sales
• Cycle management
• Selling over the phone

Successful candidates will:

• Be familiar with contact management systems
• Have a working knowledge of basic office software (Word, Internet, and Outlook)
• Possess good written and oral communication skills
• Be highly organized
• Foreign language skills are a plus
• Be detail oriented
• Able to work independently
• Have a pleasant telephone voice along with excellent telephone etiquette

Company Profile:

This company is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. They help children and adults to learn, business people to make good decisions, and readers to wind down with their favorite book.

Their business feels the growing demand for effective education and high-quality information in the global knowledge economy.

With 34,000 employees based in more than 60 countries, this company draws on common assets, processes and shares a common purpose: to help our customers live and learn. This company is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges.