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Your Challenge:
We've generated significant buzz through national newspapers, press coverage and word of mouth. Via direct sales, our products are already loved by thousands of home cooks and Michelin-starred chefs. But we're only scratching the surface of what's possible.
Our next big challenge? Getting Effium onto the shelves of select, premium cookware retailers across the Netherlands and Belgium.
We're looking for 1 ambitious Business Development Intern to help make that happen.
What you will do:
• Identify new retail partners: Research and build a pipeline of promising cookware retailers, kitchenware stores and distribution partners across the Netherlands and Belgium.
• Open doors: Reach out to potential partners through phone calls, emails, LinkedIn and in-person visits. Turn cold leads into warm conversations.
• Pitch Effium: Learn our technology and commercial proposition inside out, and communicate why retailers should stock our products.
• Build relationships: Schedule and attend meetings, organize product demonstrations and follow up with prospective retail partners.
• Close deals: Help convert promising conversations into retail partnerships and initial orders.
• Grow existing accounts: Maintain relationships with retail partners, monitor sales performance and identify opportunities for repeat orders.
• Explore new opportunities: Research alternative sales channels, e-commerce partnerships and other creative ways to bring Effium to more customers.
• Track and improve: Maintain our sales pipeline, measure outreach and conversion results, and continuously improve our approach.
Who you are:
• A student or recent graduate in business, entrepreneurship, marketing, economics, management or something tangential. We care less about your degree and more about what you've achieved and what you want to achieve.
• You're naturally curious, outgoing and enjoy meeting and talking to new people.
• You're persuasive and confident, but also genuinely interested in understanding what others need.
• You're not afraid of picking up the phone, walking into a store or hearing "no."
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset. You see opportunities, take initiative and enjoy figuring things out.
• You're ambitious, results-driven and get satisfaction from turning conversations into actual deals.
• You're self-directed, resourceful and don't need someone telling you what to do every hour.
• You're comfortable working in a fast-moving startup where priorities can change quickly.
• You're fluent in Dutch and comfortable communicating in English. French is a plus for the Belgian market.
What you get:
• €500 net per month, plus a performance bonus (€500 - €1000)
• Real ownership: The opportunity to help build Effium's retail distribution network across two countries.
• Direct mentorship: Work shoulder to shoulder with our CEO & Founder and learn firsthand how commercial partnerships are built and negotiated.
• Real commercial experience: From cold outreach and pitching to negotiations and closing deals.
• A highly motivated team: Join an ambitious group bringing patented technology from Delft to the international cookware market.
• A desk and the tools you need at our YES!Delft office in Delft.
Interested?
Email your interest directly to our CEO & Founder, Surya, at [email protected].
Tell us a little about yourself, what you've achieved so far!
