Sales Intern/Operations — 8 Weeks

Summer Internship Job Summary

You'll spend four weeks working in the real sales world, working with one or more Sales Representatives who will be your mentors. You'll learn about products, planning, sales techniques, scheduling, customer contact and problem solving. And you'll provide technical service to end users or sales support to dealers.

Your next four weeks will be concentrated primarily in an office environment learning billing procedures, inside sales, shipping, and warehouse duties. You’ll learn how to communicate and work with sales representatives, in the field, as well as office and warehouse personal. You will rotate with each department to get a complete experience of the Pennington system.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create demand of Pennington products by providing technical service and advice to customers
• Gather competitive information through personal dealer visits and communicate market trends and future needs
• Promote the responsible use of Pennington Seed products
• Responsible for investigating, rationalizing, and resolving assigned product performance claims and informing the Sales Representative
• Promptly complete all reports required by Pennington Seed sales representatives
• Develop a good knowledge of the customers and related territory to perform job (customers, center of influence, dealers, distributors, competitors, etc.)
• Follow safe driving procedures and practices as well as product stewardship
• Project professional image and maintain car and equipment to the highest standard
• Manage expenses in the best way to reach maximum productivity

Pennington Seed is always accepting resumes for internships, even if there are none open at this time.
Please email your resume to bfree@penningtonseed.com.