Commercial Sales INTERN

Overview

Start Date: February 2027

Type of Employment: Full-time Internship (40 hours/week)

Duration: 6 months

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Commercial Sales Intern, you will assist in providing licensing solutions to customers with a focus on Microsoft volume licensing programs. Work closely with multiple sales disciplines including Account Executives, Business Development, Buy and Legal service desks. Outside of Microsoft, build and maintain relationships across customers' purchasing, business sponsors and technical lead to provide modern and robust licensing solutions.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a trusted advisor to determine how commercial licensing and contracting should be changed to best meet customer needs.
• Leverages understanding of sales science (e.g., pipeline metrics, closed rates, strategic selling) to establish a strategic sales execution cadence.
• Develops customer-centric offers by engaging with and aligning account teams around the deal(s) that they are casting.
• Establishes the strategy for the negotiation approach by engaging with key stakeholders internally and externally.
• Supports various sellers in order to achieve revenue targets. Collaborates with business stakeholders (e.g., Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs [CELA], operations, finance) and across teams.
• Contributes to developing commercial proposals. Develops industry knowledge and understanding of market analysis to contribute to crafting commercial solutions. Contributes to early engagement, planning and ideation process as directed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQs):

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Information Technology, Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, Business Administration or related field with at least one quarter/semester remaining to complete after internship.
• You must be legally authorised to work in Germany to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)

Preferred Qualifications (PQs):

• Keen interest and business acumen for consultative solution selling
• • • Proven negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills
    • Effective verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills

The base pay for this internship is € 2,409.00 per month. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/interns-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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