You are an enrolled student, or recent graduate, with an excellent academic track record and superior communication skills who is eager to get involved with a fast-paced and rapidly growing start-up.

You will work closely with the Sales Team to help prospect and qualify new sales leads to help schedule meetings and create revenue opportunities. You will also be given the chance to generate leads over both email and phone yourself.

You will...

• Be involved day to day with our Sales Team, understanding the challenges of generating leads over both email and phone.

• Have ability to research and qualify leads based on specific requirements

• Be exposed to sales related processes, great to enhance business acumen

We expect this person and the role to evolve over time, so a creative and enthusiastic approach to your work will help you succeed faster.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Organized, with an ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments.

• Creative and Flexible, willing to go above and beyond required tasks

• Comfortable making cold calls

• We value our intern and want to make sure you receive a learning experience that fits your career goals.

• You will also learn how to work in a professional environment and have ample opportunity to network with department leaders and meet with our customers and suppliers.

Sales, Cold Calling, Lead Generation, Research, Qualification.

Local Bushel makes it easy for restaurants and other wholesale buyers to source food from local farms. Our marketplace and distribution service offers farmer's market quality produce, meat, and dairy at a price and level of convenience that is competitive to commodity food from commercial food distributors. Our mission is to make sustainable, transparently sourced food the norm, fundamentally changing the food distribution industry.