Business Development Placement

Penstock Foundation is a small nonprofit with 35 staff and about 150 regular volunteers. We serve roughly 500 families a year in Edinburgh. Employment here qualifies for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Overview

This is a sales internship. You will be on calls and writing outreach messages every day, so please apply only if you are comfortable talking to strangers. This role is fully remote within the UK. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day

• Build lead lists of target companies and decision makers using LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Apollo.
• Draft email templates for different customer segments and test them.
• Attend the daily sales huddle on Zoom.
• Identify possible partners such as agencies, colleges or resellers and list them with contact details.
• Send personalised outreach messages on LinkedIn and email, 40 to 60 a day.
• Make cold calls to qualified leads and book product demos for the sales manager.

Requirements

• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Basic MS Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Able to take rejection without taking it personally.
• Comfortable making 30 or more calls a day.
• Good internet connection that can handle video calls.
• Interest in B2B sales or SaaS products.
• Clear spoken and written English. Hindi, Urdu or another local language is a plus for some markets.

What you get out of it

• Cold calling and objection handling, with call reviews from the sales manager.
• You will own your own pipeline numbers by the second month.
• Performance-based incentives on top of the stipend.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: £13.50-£17.50 per hour

What we offer

• Access to online training.
• Laptop provided.
• Flexible working hours.
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Penstock Foundation Ltd.