Sales Enablement Intern

Chicago, Illinois


Employer: IBM
Industry: Sales
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time

Your Role and Responsibilities
What are we looking for?

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Sales Enablement Summer Intern to join our team and contribute to the success of our sales enablement programs. As an intern, you will have the unique opportunity to actively participate in various aspects of sales enablement, gaining hands-on
experience and make a meaningful impact. This internship will provide exposure to IBM sales and the best practices used to prospect and progress sales opportunities.

What will you do?

Sales enablement supports our sellers through various training, enablement, and sales programs. You will help develop our sales campaigns, build out sales playbooks, and help coordinate various education sessions.
Detailed Project Opportunities:
Create Content:
  • Develop new and engaging content for inclusion in our enablement
    programs.
  • Craft content in a way that resonates with professionals, ensuring it is
    relevant and impactful.
  • Collaborate with the training team to enhance
    existing training modules.
  • Utilize platforms such as Seismic or Your Learning to publish and share the
    created content.
  • Help to incorporate multimedia elements, interactive
    content, or gamification to increase engagement.
Program Evaluation:
Evaluate the effectiveness of enablement programs by collecting success
metrics and identifying areas for improvement. Conduct seller interviews to
gather valuable feedback and insights. Help identify any unexplored gaps in
our programs.

User Experience:
Evaluate the user experience of sales enablement platforms and materials.
Propose improvements to the user interface and overall accessibility.
Solicit feedback from end-users to understand their preferences and pain
points.

Job Shadow:
Shadow senior enablement leaders, gain insights into their day-to-day
responsibilities. Learn by attending meetings and understand how we
address seller enablement needs. Assist in creating content for LinkedIn
blogs based on the experience and knowledge gained.

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
  • Currently pursuing a Sales, Marketing, Business, Communications or Education major
  • Self-motivated and focused
  • Strong communications skill
  • Able to articulate concepts, ideas, recommendations and proposals
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
  • Experience with PowerPoint, Word, and Excel


Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
  • Experience developing learning activities
  • Analytics experience
  • Experience developing video tutorials


Required Education
High School Diploma/GED

Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree

About Business Unit
IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company's Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

Wonder if IBM is the one for you?
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Other Relevant Job Details
Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law. The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Created: 2024-09-28
Reference: 728305BR
Country: United States
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
ZIP: 60018