Sales Intern - Fall of 2026

The Sales Intern sits inside the earliest stages of Cogent Analytics' sales process, where the outcome of every downstream sale is actually decided. This role exists to show, firsthand, how identifying an ideal client profile (ICP), building a prospect database, and engaging that database correctly drive revenue and growth, and how getting any one of those wrong drags down sales performance for the entire organization. 

The intern will work side by side with sales leadership day-to-day and will be exposed to the outside sales team (Regional Vice Presidents), but will not travel or spend time in the field. This is an inside seat on the machinery that makes outside sales possible. 

The internship is built around one continuous thread, not a set of disconnected rotations: marketing defines who the ideal client is, the database captures and organizes that population, inside sales engages the database to generate appointments, and outside sales (RVPs) converts those appointments into revenue. The intern will see that thread run end to end — and will see what happens to sales performance when any link in it is executed poorly (a weak ICP, a neglected database, inconsistent outbound calling, or RVPs whose time isn't managed well). 

By the end of the internship, the intern should be able to explain, with specific examples from Cogent Analytics, how disciplined database and marketing work upstream translates into revenue and growth downstream,  and how sloppiness at any stage shows up as lost sales. 

This internship gives a Sales, Marketing, or Business Administration student direct, supervised exposure to the full front end of a sales organization: marketing strategy, ideal client profile development, database management, inside sales execution, and sales management oversight of an outside sales force. The student performs real, applied work (database maintenance, exposure to outbound calling and appointment-setting, time-management analysis of the outside sales team) under the direct supervision of sales leadership — not passive observation. 

The internship is structured to let the student trace one measurable business outcome (revenue generation) back through each function that contributes to it, which maps directly to coursework in sales, marketing, and business administration programs covering customer acquisition, CRM/database management, and sales operations. 

If you are looking to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic business environment, we encourage you to apply for this internship. Join Cogent Analytics and contribute to a high-performance team dedicated to excellence and client success.

Cogent Analytics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.