Sales Intern-Port Plastics - Plastics Family Americas

What would make you a good fit?:

• Current junior or senior in a university program (sales or industrial distribution preferred)
• Interested in pursuing a career in sales
• Team player in the office with coworkers Monday- Friday
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and passion for learning

What will you do as an intern?

• Experience both inside sales and outside sales participating in REAL LIFE selling!
• Shadow experienced sales representatives and prospect potential customers.
• Inside sales duties include following up on sales quotes, shadowing inside sales representatives, taking part in outcall programs, and qualifying leads.
• Outside sales tasks include shadowing outside sales professionals, and participating in independent outside visits to qualify and visit perspective new customers.
• Interns may be asked to complete other projects throughout the course of the internship, such as analyzing warehouse operations, participating in stock cycle counting, and presenting a final project to the local team on their summer experience.
• Internships last 10 weeks long in a local office, completing 40 hours per week as a full time sales intern. Limited travel may be included such as attending the Intern Onboarding Training.

How does Port Plastics support you?

• Sales interns are paid $18.00 USD/hour as you learn from the industry's best sales team.
• All interns attend an onboarding week together for sales training, product training, and role plays to prepare you for the summer ahead.
• 75% of summer interns return for full time positions. Jump start your career through the summer program with us!

About the company:

A leader in plastics distribution with branches across the US, Port Plastics offers an extensive portfolio of rod, plate, and tube for machining and fabrication.

From olefins and transparent sheet to imidized and fluorinated engineering materials, Port Plastics'​
product range serves applications in virtually every industry.

• Engineering plastics for machining and fabrication
• Industrial laminates and tapes
• Flexible and rigid tubing
• Transparent sheet products
• Corrosion resistant sheet materials

Port routinely brings leading edge technology to customers in the form of new enhanced-performance materials that offer improvements in:

• Static control and electrical properties
• Strength and stability at temperature extremes
• Long term performance in aggressive chemicals
• Significantly longer bearing and wear life
• Latest regulatory requirements

Decades of experience plus the tech support of leading suppliers help solve problems and pinpoint optimum material options.

By coupling high volume buying power with extensive inventory and strong supplier relationships, Port delivers exceptional service at highly competitive prices.