Rocket Internet SE – Venture Development Intern

This position is an exciting and extraordinary opportunity to be at the root of a fast growing and constantly developing company. You will gain insight and first hand experience into an internet start-up, learn day-to-day management and build functional expertise. You should be a highly motivated individual who is interested in entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and is able to quickly assume a great deal of responsibility.

This internship will provide you with deep insight into how start-ups operate, and will have the opportunity to work alongside an international team with a strong track record. Furthermore you may have the opportunity to rotate across departments to identify improvement areas across key functions like recruitment, sales and quality controls, along with identifying areas for improvement in internal processes and design new processes. The internship will provide you with opportunities to exercise your initiative, creative and leadership skills. High performing interns may have the opportunity to return for full-time employment.

You will be involved in everything! Such is life in a busy start up - you may be doing Sales presentations on one day and running a big marketing campaign on another!

Our Venture Development interns get to really experience life as an entrepreneur - and reporting to the Country Managers, we have very flat management structures that allow you to be quite autonomous. 

You will be responsible for the following:

• Market research into suitable vendors and partners across a wide variety of categories and platforms
• Operations - developing and executing workflows that are necessary for business excellence
• Pitching and selling our new platform to potential partners (i.e. over the phone, going out to meet clients, doing sales presentations etc), and assisting with vendor on-boarding
• Account Management - being the first point of contact for all sales and operational queries from vendors, and resolving/escalating issues in a timely manner
• Developing and maintaining all Sales Decks and presentations
• Executing online and offline marketing campaigns

QUALIFICATIONS

Ideally you will be pursuing a Bachelor/Master degree from a local university, with outstanding communication skills and fluency in English - bonus: on track to First Class Honors 

Highly motivated, with an absolute hands-on mentality, exceptional analytic skills and strong communication skills. You will also possess independence, ambition and professionalism

A strong interest in e-commerce (or start-ups is highly preferable)

You have a clear interest in people and are motivated to work in a start-up environment, and you are flexible and agile - we have a preference for fast-thinkers