Date: 2008-04-21, 11:03AM PDT
We are a small successful women’s accessories designer located in the San Francisco North Bay area and we are looking for an intern to help with our current phase of growth. Our product line includes exclusive scarves, shawls and handbags, all handmade in the San Francisco area.
Our goal is to further grow our business nationwide, initially focusing on the bigger metropolitan areas. The primary focus of this project is to help us expand our base of wholesale customers and building a network of sales representatives throughout the U.S. and Canada and eventually in Europe.
This position is ideal for a marketing or business student who wants to get hands-on experience and add a professional reference to their resume.
We are looking for one or two people depending on your skill set. We need one person with excellent research and organizational skills and we need one person with excellent verbal communication skills. The ideal candidate would be able to perform both jobs.
Research duties include, but are not limited to:
* Locating, researching, compiling, and evaluating lists of potential customers such as high-end boutiques, gift shops, museum stores, spas, wineries etc. in predefined target areas.
* Developing direct marketing strategies including e-mail marketing,
direct mail, internet and other marketing avenues.
* Generating and follow up on leads on appropriate sales representatives and wholesale customers.
Outreach duties include, but are not limited to:
* Creating telemarketing procedures and materials.
Calling and following-up on new customer and sales reps leads as well as documenting the result of the call.
Qualifications and skills:
* Our ideal candidate is currently working towards earning a degree,
with a major in advertising, marketing, communications or public relations. We are willing to work with your school to ensure you will get credit for the work performed for us if this is applicable to you.
* Excellent verbal and general communication skills, outgoing, friendly
personality, comfortable making cold calls, solid organization skills,
good follow through, ability to work independently and efficiently.
Experience with internet research and Microsoft Excel a must since a lot of time will be spent researching information using the internet.
This is a 2 to 3 month part-time internship and will require between 10-15 hours per week, some or all of which can be worked from home. Work hours are very flexible for the research portion of the job. For the right individual, this could turn in to a long-term opportunity.
Pay is a stipend based on predefined deliverables.
If you feel this is a good fit with your experience and objectives, please submit your resume and a brief cover letter to us describing which of the above duties you are interested in, your prior experience in this area, your work availability (h/week and duration) and any other information you think is valuable for us to know. References will be requested prior to project start.
- Compensation: Stipend
- This is a part-time job.
- This is an internship job
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Posted By: Samantha Cheng
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