Paid Commercial Sales Intern
Everon Sales Internship with a Path to Become a Contract Sales Rep
Everon is looking for the next generation of sales leaders to bring their passion, skillset, and education to life by joining the paid Everon Summer Sales Internship Program. Pending performance, this 6-week internship can convert into an immediate fulltime employment opportunity as a Contract Sales Consultant upon successful completion of the program.
Position Details:
- Internship Dates: June 3rd – July 18th
- Internship length: 6 weeks
- Hours: Part-time, up to 32 hours a week (Monday-Thursday)
- Pay: $21/hour
- In-Person
What’s in it for you?
Professional Development Training
We will host weekly professional development training sessions that vary on career readiness topics and will invite senior leaders as guest speakers to our sessions to provide insight on industry/department perspective, early career advice and more.
- Sales Training
Our sales training program is one of the best in the industry. From prospecting through closing, thorough product training, and practical application, we ensure our interns are ready to take on bigger roles at Everon.
- Mentorship
We know that most people learn best through hands-on experience, so we pair you with a mentor for the duration of your internship.
- Field Ride Days
You will attend a variety of appointments and prospecting visits as part of your internship, where you will be part of the team on client appointments, proposals, demos, and more.
What will a typical day look like for you? You’ll be….
- Working alongside a mentor sales rep throughout the internship to understand our business and sales process.
- Shadowing and leading field/phone cold calls with your mentor to generate new leads from current customers and new accounts.
- Exposure to various aspects of the sale process with different internal stakeholders.
- Receiving coaching and feedback from your mentor and manager on all intern-led activities.
- Internship will conclude with a final project that incorporates building/delivering a mock customer sales pitch.
Opportunity to become a Contract Sales Rep:
Pending performance and program completion, this internship can result in immediate fulltime employment as a Contract Sales Rep (CSR). The Contract/Preventative Maintenance Agreement (PMA) Sales Representative’s task is to increase recurring service and monitoring sales for electronic and mechanical life safety systems such as fire alarms, fire sprinklers, suppression systems, and security and special hazards. This will be done by converting ADT Commercial sold projects, non-ADT Commercial sold projects, existing customers and competitive prospects into a service agreement. Service agreements consist of test and inspections, preventive maintenance, central station monitoring and other service offerings. Contract/PMA Sales Reps will be expected to review existing customer system information, as well as to conduct surveys of the life safety systems of potential new prospects. The most critical part of this position is to have outstanding prospecting skills and to have high activity levels in order to achieve your assigned pipeline and sales goals.
Some of the responsibilities of the CSR role include:
- Responsible to grow the business by providing solutions to existing as well as new client base
- Cold-Calling and making outside sales calls on a consistent basis in order to seek out new business
- Conduct building surveys in order to develop proposals to customers
- Create proposals for service agreements; test and inspections, preventative maintenance and central station monitoring
- Make necessary sales presentations to customers and management as requested
- Acquire and maintain sound knowledge of all product lines and services offered.
- Review testing & inspection reports with the Service Technicians & Service Managers to quantify service repair proposals based on discrepancies discovered during system inspections.
- Partner with internal departments to communicate job scopes and relay customer needs.
- Attract new customers to our organization and up-selling our already well-established client base through a combination of outdoor field sales, phone sales, and direct marketing efforts.
- Assist in marketing initiatives related to sales activities, including the development of sales and business plans.
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of company services through presentation to customers.
Education/Certification:
- Graduating Seniors (May 2024-December 2024 graduation dates) with a bachelor’s degree in Sales, Business, or related field
Qualifications:
- Ability for immediate fulltime employment at the successful completion of the 6-week program
- Previous customer service preferred.
- Sales, cold calling, and prospecting experience preferred.
- Must have valid driver’s license with acceptable issued by the State of residence.
- An interest in technical sales, security, or life safety is preferred but is not required.
Personal Attributes:
- Candidate must have a strong work ethic, competitive spirit, action oriented and optimistic outlook to achieve positive results.
- Candidate must be organized, driven, a fast learner, and detail oriented.