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About the Role
As an Intern Business Development & Strategy, you will analyze new growth areas, drive strategic initiatives, and implement concrete projects. You will work closely with the founding team and various departments, gaining deep insights into building and scaling a fast-growing education company.
Responsibilities
- Analyze markets, target groups, competitors, and trends to identify new growth opportunities and derive recommendations for business development and strategy initiatives.
- Work directly with founders and C-level on projects related to growth, new business areas, customers, partners, and stakeholders.
- Support the development of new offerings, partnerships, and go-to-market approaches from initial hypothesis to concrete implementation.
- Assist in testing new target groups, channels, and sales approaches, evaluating initial market reactions, and further developing successful approaches.
- Prepare analyses, business cases, and presentations to help the founding team evaluate new opportunities economically and strategically.
- Support the identification and approach of potential customers, partners, or relevant stakeholders, and help build professional relationships.
- Assist in quickly testing new ideas, offerings, or processes in the market, evaluating results, and deriving concrete next steps.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Academies, and support cross-departmental projects, analyses, and presentations.
Requirements
- Interest in startups, education, and digital business models.
- Initial experience from relevant areas (e.g., internships, own projects).
- Good understanding of numbers and ability to grasp connections quickly.
- Ability to make data-based decisions.
- Ability to present complex issues clearly and convincingly, both written and verbally.
- Proficiency in German and ideally English.
- Proactive and hands-on mentality; tackle challenges with motivation and work independently.
- Comfortable with analytics and automation.
- Proficient with tools like Google Workspace, Trello, or Notion.
- Willingness to optimize processes through smart solutions.
Skills
- Market analysis
- Potential analysis
- Strategic initiatives
- Business development
- Go-to-market strategies
- Commercial case preparation
- Presentation skills
- Customer acquisition
- Partner management
- Stakeholder management
- Prototyping
- Testing
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Analytics
- Automation
- Google Workspace
- Trello
- Notion
Location
- Germany
Work Type
- Internship
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Internship
Benefits
- Insight into venture building
- Opportunity to actively participate in a crucial growth phase
- Shape strategic projects from scratch
- Meaningful work with direct impact
- Contribute to combating skilled labor shortages and opening up new career prospects through education
- Shape the future of a key German economic sector
- Dynamic startup environment
- Open company culture
- Flat hierarchies
- Team that values fun and personal development
- Regular mentoring
- Personal feedback
- Training budget of €250 during the internship
- Experience preparing for a future entrepreneurial career
- Scope for design and top network
- Actively contribute ideas to venture building
- Work on projects shaping the future of education
- Benefit from a strong network of leading minds and supporters from business and industry
- Ideal timing to join during a growth acceleration phase
About the Company
- Talentspring Academy Group is a dynamically growing network of state-recognized digital-first educational institutions with a clear focus on digital professional fields.
- They retrain people without formal qualifications, career changers, job seekers, and employees for in-demand digital roles.
- Programs qualify for future-relevant fields like Artificial Intelligence, Online Marketing, and Digital Sales.
- They combine the speed and innovation of an EdTech with the reach and credibility of established educational structures.
- Strategic partnerships provide a nationwide infrastructure with several hundred locations, deep institutional trust, and direct access to target groups.
- The company is poised for its next growth phase, driven by product-market fit, an AI-first DNA, social impact, and unique market access.
Equal Opportunity
- Decisions regarding hiring and employment are not based on race, religion, ethnic or national origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
- Talentspring is committed to providing a safe workplace and actively combats discrimination and harassment.
- Ensuring everyone develops to their fullest potential without disadvantage is a priority.
- The company is proud of its diverse team and ensures this lived diversity is reflected in all positions.