About the role
At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car , a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton , Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe , we encounter exceptional objects every day. We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts. Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us. Taking ownership and driving impact Being open to change and feedback Being passionate about our mission and our customers.
About
the role and team We are looking for a Sales Development Representative Intern to support us building a strong seller lead pipeline for Catawiki’s Collectables business unit. The sales intern will identify, contact and convince sellers to offer quality objects via our platform with a specific focus on Collectables (Books, Coins, Toys, Trading Cards, etc.), and provide prospects with a great onboarding experience. You are going to help us generate sustainable revenue opportunities by opening up conversations with new sellers that the Business Development team will work on to turn them into committed and fast-growing sellers. Your focus areas will be international sellers (Central & Eastern Europe, Nordics) and emerging online sellers across Europe. You will get to learn about the sales function at a marketplace, focused on the early stages of our sellers’ journey. What you’ll do Identify, qualify and develop leads through call, email, field visit, fair visit and experts collaboration Identify and reactivate high potential dormants sellers and organic sign-ups Qualify inbound leads by working with data and sales tooling Facilitate a frictionless pre and post-sales experience for new sellers Build and nurture strong relationships with new sellers to expand Collectables seller network In cooperation with experts, quickly learn the important characteristics of categories Select and grow high-potential new sellers and hand them over to the Business Developers Move in sync with Business Developers to develop growth plans for onboarded sellers