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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 Laird 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:

Plastics have revolutionized the world, enabling our society to enjoy the benefits of products that are safer, lighter, stronger, cheaper and more practical than traditional materials. Laird Plastics has been a leading distributor of plastic sheets, rods, films, and more for over 70 years, adapting along the way to new markets and innovations as the industry continues to modernize. Operating with a network of over 50 distribution centers across North America and partnering with the industry's leading manufacturers.

Laird Plastics takes a unique, decentralized approach to the distribution business model and offers an extensive and specialized array of plastic materials. Laird Plastics stocks high-performance acrylics and polycarbonates, solutions to support their primary specialty, the sign and graphics industry, including foam boards, styrene, polypropylene, and vinyl banners, as well as mechanical and engineering materials such as UHMW, LDPE, HDPE, nylons, and acetals