Sales Traineeship

Are you looking to kickstart your career in sales? Are you an ambitious young professional looking to maximize growth and build foundational career skills? AIHR is looking for a Sales Trainee. Join us to learn from the absolute best and maximize your personal and professional growth!

About AIHR

Founded in 2016 with the mission to future-proof HR, the Academy to Innovate HR (AIHR) has become the world’s market leader in online training for human resources (HR) professionals. We have a global customer base spread across 140+ countries, amongst which companies like Unilever, Reckitt, Goldman Sachs, Philips, Deloitte, Nike, Heineken, and UBS. It is our goal to continuously upskill and empower 1,000,000 HR Professionals.

We are an international team of 100+ people, driven by excellence, innovation, and a hunger to grow in everything we do. As such, we strive to provide the world’s best courses and excellent support to our customers while continuously optimizing every aspect of our work. With over 30 nationalities, our team is diverse, yet we all share a few traits: we're friendly, enthusiastic, and great team players.

Being a fast-growing company, working at AIHR means taking on a lot of responsibility and getting countless opportunities to develop yourself in new areas and the potential to craft your own role.

Role and Responsibilities

This full-time role gives you the unique opportunity to launch your career in sales! 

As a Sales Trainee, you’d join our Sales team, assisting our members with their enrollment and helping them to find the best courses for their learning needs. You’d closely collaborate with the rest of the department by helping them identify sales opportunities with corporate clients. At AIHR, we aim to future-proof HR by offering world-class online training programs for HR Professionals. As a Sales Trainee, you will be the face of AIHR for prospects looking for guidance in choosing the right training program for their career and identifying those looking to upskill their teams. 

In this role, you will become the trusted partner of prospective members and build a relationship with them based on a deep understanding of their career goals and the training programs we offer. All with the ultimate goal of helping them (and their teams) enroll on our platform. 

To help you develop your skills (think: consultative sales, active listening, negotiation tactics, etc.), our experienced sales management team will train you. Through day-to-day coaching and formalized training, you will grow transferable skills you will benefit from the rest of your career. 

On a typical day

On a typical Monday morning, you will start the day by planning your week and preparing for the team stand-up when you and your colleagues share the focus area for the coming days. Afterwards, you grab a cup of coffee and quickly chat with your colleagues about the party they attended last weekend in Rotterdam. You kick off your tasks for today and jump into your inbox to begin directly working with the customers & deals in your pipeline.

Throughout the day, you will have several customer calls. One is with an HR Business Partner at an FMCG company in the US. She’s interested in learning more about Data Analytics, but during your call, you discover that her entire team is interested. You immediately flag the opportunity to decide on the next steps. Lunch is prepared by our in-house chef, Rick; after a quick lunch in the office with colleagues, you will work on our website chat to help potential members looking to register immediately. 

Tomorrow you will have training, where you will work to build foundational sales skills. Here, you will role-play, review calls & emails with your manager, Allye, and learn how to develop a consultative sales style. You can immediately use these learnings in practice! 

We close off a successful week of sales and training with a drink on a Friday evening, where you get to know your colleagues better. Although we all work hard to make the company grow, we like to relax and enjoy our joint success.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone ambitious and eager to grow in sales. Someone with good communication skills (able to write flawless English) and not afraid of coaching & feedback. Moreover, you are a good fit if you:

• Are a recent university graduate with a Bachelor's Degree (0-2 years working experience);

• Have affinity with sales;

• Are ambitious and not afraid of failing;

• A Life-long learner who welcomes coaching & feedback;

• Take ownership of your development;

• Fluent in English;

• Are available to start as soon as possible;

We offer

• A key opportunity to develop and build critical skills for your career;

• The opportunity to shape your own day-to-day work;

• Dedicated coaching and  support to reach your career goals;

• Flexible working hours & working from home arrangements;

• A vibrant, result-driven, inclusive, and international team;

• A key role in a fast-growing scale-up company;

• A beautiful office right across Rotterdam Central Station (Milleniumtower) and a brand new office in Amsterdam;

• 26 paid holidays per year + 1 extra day for the first 5 years you work here 

• Exchange any 2 public holiday days for 2 other days of your choice;

• Work from anywhere policy, where you can work abroad for 20 days in a calendar year;

• Pension plan;

• 4 Trust days per year;

• Access to OpenUp mental health platform;

• Personal development budget, training, and we pay for the books you read;

• All public transport expenses covered (NS Business Card);

• MacBook + all other equipment you need to do your work;

• Daily lunch prepared by a chef, weekly drinks, and fun team activities;

• Free access to the office gym.

Apply for the job

Are you ready to kickstart your career in sales? Then we'd love to hear from you! We are looking to hire for this role as soon as we find an eligible candidate.

P.S. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women tend to only apply when they meet 100% of them. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point above, please still apply. We'd love to consider you and see if you could be a great fit.