Field Sales support intern - 13 month placementThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
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Aruba Edge Campus Networking UKI - Enterprise Sales Intern
Startdate: July 2025
Location: Winnersh
Support to Aruba Enterprise Sales Team:
- The Enterprise Sales Intern has the opportunity to support the wider Enterprise SalesTeam in enabling their end user Customers and Partners within the Intelligent Edge Networking market.
- This is a Sales Support role but is very varied; with day-to-day activities including reporting and analysing data, arranging events and communicating with the wider team.
Reporting:
- Reports are a large part of this Sales Support role and producing clear and concise reports; perhaps with effective analysis, is vital to support the Enterprise Sales Team.
- CSIS and Power BI are used on a daily basis in order to facilitate reporting within the Sales Team.
Excel:
- Sellout reports are produced daily to ensure members of the sales team are able to track their deals.
- Pivot Tables are also used regularly to summarise large data sets.
Communications:
- Prepare and participate in bi-weekly forecast calls to ensure the forecasts are accurate for the Sales Team.
- Organise team meetings to discuss relevant and important business once a month.
- Autonomy over various projects to get the most of being an Intern in Aruba.
Marketing:
- Opportunity to use ECP to produce professional information within emails to be distributed to partners.
- CenterPoint can be used to create effective and polished events; mainly for contacts outside the organisation.
- Event Calendar is also used in these cases to ensure successful events are coordinated punctually.
Extra:
- Assist the Head of Enterprise Sales with forecasting and SFDC. This also applies to members of the Sales Team; as this is restricted to only their deals.
- Integration with other Aruba interns – cross role systems support for holiday back up to develop more knowledge across the organisation.
- Help to manage one off events and focus sales days.
Opportunities for development:
- Customer meetings – visits to clients and partners for sales meetings & partner reviews.
- Aruba Improvement Plan – help the leadership team to develop and build upon the strengths of our business by identifying areas we can improve
- Support for customers sales events – internally and externally.
- Involvement in the UK Aruba Instant On growth plan.
- HPE intern programme activities - Early career committee, Charity events, Employee networks, Bracknell Office activities. This can also help enable interns’ to develop a network throughout the HPE organisation.
- Sales readiness optional training programme.
Key learning framework :
- On boarding to understand Aruba strategy and key propositions. Deliver presentation back to management team within 90 days. September 2020.
- Within first 60 days arrange to meet with UKI Mngt team – this is planned into your diary. Key contacts are Matt Valentine, James Dunlop, Helen Speak, Steve Prescott, Nick Walters, and Simon Wilson.
- Develop proficiency in use of MS Office, SFDC, CSIS, PowerBI and CenterPoint.
What you’ll need:
Potential interns must be in their 2nd year of a four-year degree which requires (or has an option for) 3rd year to be a one year's industrial placement, and are expected to achieve a minimum of a 2:1 grade
You must be eligible to work in the UK and be available to commence the placement at the beginning of July 2025 for 13 months.
You'll have self-motivation to work independently, be confident in your resourcefulness, but aware when you need to ask for help and guidance
You will have good time management and organisational skills while being structured in your approach
You'll be adaptable in handling new and evolving requirements, and comfortable working under tight timescales
Be prepared to travel when necessary
Show creativity in approaching projects and bold in asking questions
Exceptional written, visual and oral communication skills and comfortable talking to people of all seniority levels
Team oriented and collaborative mindset.
What you can expect from us:
Initial extensive onboarding to support you with adjusting into the role
Ongoing learning and development throughout the duration of the program
Be mentored by at least one senior member of the team
Competitive salary and great benefits
Work-life balance
Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Business, Calendar Management, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Office Administration, Policy and procedures, Recordkeeping, Risk Assessment, Service And Support Planning {+ 6 more}
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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