Retail Sales Activation Intern

🚀Retail Sales Activation Intern (NYC)

Paid Internship + Commission on Sales

A great opportunity, with compensation, to put into practice what you have learned in business school about sales and marketing.

Le Chocolat des Iles is a premium chocolate company built from the source — selecting cacao beans for taste and producing true two-ingredient chocolate.

The product is ready. The supply chain is built.
Now we are going into the market — and your role is to generate sales.

This is a paid, field-based internship with commission tied directly to results, designed for individuals who want real-world experience and are motivated by performance.

🎯 What You’ll Do

Your primary responsibility is to generate sales and get the product onto store shelves.

• Walk into specialty stores, markets, and retailers across NYC
• Introduce and present the product to store managers
• Secure initial orders and new store placements
• Develop those placements into long-term accounts through follow-up and relationship building
• Maintain and grow your accounts by encouraging repeat orders
• Support in-store sampling when needed
• Gather feedback from the market

👉 This is a hands-on, in-person role — not desk-based.

⚡ How You’ll Be Measured

• Number of stores opened
• Orders generated
• Repeat sales from accounts you develop

👤 Who This Role Is For

• Comfortable approaching and speaking with new people
• Motivated to earn based on results
• Willing to hear “no” and keep going
• Energetic, reliable, and action-oriented
• Interested in sales, business, or entrepreneurship
• Motivated to make money during this three-month internship, with the opportunity to grow into a leadership role in sales and marketing

No prior sales experience required —
but you must be willing to take initiative and make things happen.

💰 Compensation

• Base hourly pay
• Commission on initial store placements
• Additional commission on repeat orders from accounts you develop

👉 The accounts you build can continue to generate revenue over time.

🚀 What You’ll Gain

• Opportunity to develop the skills and experience needed to build a career in sales and marketing
• Real-world sales experience
• Direct application of business school learning in a live market
• Understanding of how products enter retail and generate demand
• Opportunity to build and manage your own portfolio of retail accounts
• Direct impact on a growing brand
• Opportunity to grow into larger roles based on performance

📍 Location

New York Metro (field-based)

📝 Application Question

Please include a short response:

“You walk into a store in NYC and have 60 seconds to convince the manager to carry a new chocolate brand. What do you say?”