Internship in Business Development & Sales, Paris / Frankfurt

• Paris (city), Frankfurt am Main
• 25 mars 2021
• Réf. FRDJOB2021032505552734

European Champions Alliance

The European Champions Alliance is a non-for-profit association building an ecosystem of start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs, corporates and industry experts committed to European Tech and values. The Alliance leverages their European network by sharing market knowledge and activating joint business opportunities between the members to support the growth of European Champions.

About the internship

• Help us find and convince new members to join our community
• Manage member admissions and take care of the well being of our members in the community
• Organize, guide and monitor the activity of our members in different focus groups (e.g. cybersecurity, industry 4.0)in coordination

• Search and contact potential partners (corporates, scale-ups or administration, economic promotion)
• Present ECA’s offer and work with scale-ups to analyze a targeted market and develop an internationalization plan until it becomes operational

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the association in support of the management and the board
• Organize meetings with the core team (weekly), the executive (monthly) and steering committee (quarterly) as well as the supervisory board (quarterly)

• Create and run virtual events with our partners (morning talks, conferences, webinars, physical events if possible, etc.)
• Manage and promote partner events and ECAs implication in those events

Profile

• Our project is your passion: You have a strong European spirit and mindset and believe in the power of smart collaboration and the European project.
• You are as passionate as we are about new technologies and the tech / start-up / scale-up sector.
• You have a background in or are studying international or European relations, political science, or economics/business
• C2-level/mother-tongue in French or German is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY,
• Proficient in English, German & French
• You have advanced skills in marketing tools such as Powerpoint, Excel etc.
• You enjoy working in a group & animating networks. You are not afraid of cooperating with senior profiles who are experts in their field.
• You are very organized and are able to steer different projects to achieve their objectives.
• You are very autonomous, independent and self-driven as most of the internship will be in remote work with several interactions per day or per week with the members of the management and the board.
• You have good communication skills, both oral and written.
• You are very flexible, a great team player, able to work in a multicultural environment, adaptable to your interlocutors but never losing sight of your goals

Specificities

• The internship will be mostly remote until we can work again in a physical setting, then the internship can be in Paris or Frankfurt.
• You have to be engaged in a university throughout the entire time of the internship
• You need to provide a “convention de stage” with your university