Sales Professional Intern - CTG

GreatAmerica is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, our principle-centered business philosophy and our team-based operating approach are key to our success and growth. We have also recently become a bank! A summer sales internship that provides a real professional sales experience, in a supportive corporate environment, with the potential for rewarding career – that’s what GreatAmerica Financial Services offers. We are the country’s largest independent, family-owned national commercial equipment finance company in the United States, with headquarters in downtown Cedar Rapids. We invite our summer sales interns into an immersive 10-week experience where you’ll acquire consultative and strategic selling skills that any sales organization (including ours) will value, and the satisfaction that you helped GreatAmerica achieve greater success. Your primary responsibility will be to learn how to identify new business opportunities. You’ll do so while working in each of our core business units, being mentored by sales leaders, established sales professionals, and past interns now employed full-time. You will: Participate in learning activities with new full-time employees and other summer interns across all company functions. Learn how to distinguish a genuine prospect from a sea of suspects and apply your research to outreach activities. Make prospecting calls and shadow our sales professionals as they guide prospects and customers through our consultative sales process. Work with your fellow sales interns to complete a capstone project that directly impacts GreatAmerica’s success and present your results to the company’s senior leadership. Enjoy GreatAmerica’s culture of volunteering in the community, participating in the Corridor Corporate Games, and other relationship-building activities. Return to college with a sales experience that will inform your future ca