Sales Intern

Sales and Marketing Development Program (SMDP) Internship

Make Your Mark. Shape Your Future.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of nearly 60,000 professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world's most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, CRAFTSMAN®, CUB CADET®, STANLEY® and BLACK+DECKER®

What You'll Do

The Sales & Marketing Development Program (SMDP) internship program offers a structured start to your personal career path here at Stanley Black & Decker. Over the course of your tenure in the SMDP internship program, you will develop competencies in sales and marketing through a variety of experiences focused on brand, product, channel, and sales. SMDP immerses you in the world of our end-users, customers, and business partners. You will develop a broad scope of product knowledge, sales skills, and other experiences through a customized career progression.

In this role, you will be assigned one or more the Home Depot stores. You're responsible for selling Stanley Black & Decker products, planning, and executing store event strategies, forming relationships with key decision makers, and implementing regional sales initiatives.

This is an active, hands-on position. You'll need to be able to analyze your business and present to key decision makers to provide business solutions. This may at times include supplemental down stocking and merchandising as needed.

Following your successful internship, you'll have the opportunity to interview for our full time national SMDP roles upon college graduation.

We're looking for an individual who is self-motivated, goal-oriented, successful when working in both a team-based environment and independently. We're also looking for someone who is persuasive in the use of selling skills, a solutions provider and good communicator. You also will need to be able to build and maintain positive customer relationships and work with diverse personalities.

We are actively recruiting interns in following markets: Baltimore, Boston, North NJ, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix, Honolulu, and Los Angeles.

More About Your Role

The Home Depot is a top retailer for Stanley Black & Decker products. You will support corporate marketing initiatives and your mission will be to ensure those strategies are implemented at the store level while maintaining knowledge of the current industry and competitive landscape.

A typical day will consist of visiting one or two stores. While in store you'll focus on building relationships with key store personnel, driving in-store sales through direct selling to customers in the aisles, managing our partnership with the Retailer Service Team to ensure servicing standards, providing occasional supplemental merchandising support to them as needed and the planning and execution of events throughout the year.

Minimum Requirements

• A junior or senior pursing a Bachelor's degree in a business or communication related discipline
• Must have an interest in sales or retail management
• Must be willing to travel regionally, work occasional weekends and events
• Valid driver's license
• Pass all drug and criminal background checks
• Physical labor and ability to lift 30+ pounds will be required in the handling, training, and demonstration of our products
• Competent in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook and Excel computer skills).

Successful candidates meet the following requirements

• Self-motivated, driven towards results that grow, develop, and drive sales within a specific region or market.
• Ability to analyze data, develop strategic growth plans, and improve financial performance.

• Flexible towards change and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Competitive and innovative nature
• Proven desire to meet and exceed measurable performance goals
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication, computer, and business skills.

How You'll Feel

We want our company to be a place you'll want to be - and stay. Being part of our team means you'll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera® and online university.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

What's more, you'll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We're more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We're visionaries and innovators. As successful as we've been in the past, we have so much further to go. That's where you come in. Join us!

To learn more about Sales & Marketing Development Program visit www.smdpcareers.com

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status or any other protected characteristic.

We Don't Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you'll get the unique chance to impact some of the world's most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We're the World's largest tool company. We're industry visionaries. We're solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art "smart factory" products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Benefits & Perks

You'll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

What You'll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren't linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you'll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that's how the best work gets done. You'll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You'll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

EEO Statement:

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status or any other protected characteristic.