Outbound Marketing Intern

As a family-run, high-tech company with nearly 19,000 employees at 71 locations worldwide, we are looking for forward thinkers with unconventional ideas and drive to join our team. Our company culture, which values collaboration and mutual trust, creates the ideal framework for boldly trying new things and questioning the status quo. Our technologies inspire people to develop and produce things that are currently unimaginable. Whether lasers, machine tools, EUV or electronics - TRUMPF is building technological worlds for future generations. Are you ready for new challenges?

Summary

The Outbound Marketing Intern is responsible for outbound generation and qualification of leads to the TRUMPF sales teams.  This responsibility includes, among others, improving quality & quantity of leads and provide feedback to lead manager and marketing on potential marketing efforts to support lead generation.  The goal is to increase sales for TRUMPF.  The intern is engaged in the day-to-day marketing activities, like creating flyers, planning and executing internal events, assisting with advertisements, social media marketing, helping introduce marketing campaigns, etc.  Additionally, the intern will be assigned one or more special projects depending on the needs of TRUMPF and both the capabilities and desires of the intern. 

This internship will be January 2026 - August 2026 for at least 25-30 hours a week.

Principle Duties & Responsibilities

• Utilize available tools, including digital marketing and TRUMPF’s established social media channels, to develop outbound leads that are potential sales targets for TRUMPF.
• Qualify inbound sales requests
• Generate outbound leads: Research open leads (CRM Database/ customer classification, LinkedIn, Prospect Database and web crawler, Wired Minds..)
• Process and qualify open leads to be passed to the sales teams (can include "cold calling“ for potential customers, including pre-qualification of e.g. trade-show leads
• Manage leads over their life cycle (Generate, prepare, qualify, route, track)
• Nurture open leads (e.g. use Marketing tools)
• Create transparency in all stages of lead handling process to be clearly visible in TRUMPF
• Any additional responsibilities as deemed necessary by management
• Adhere to all company guidelines

Travel

• Must maintain Valid Driver’s License
• Occasional overnights as needed

Education & Experience

• Enrolled in secondary or graduate level program with a concentration in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field
• Experience in sales or related business functions preferred
• Good analytical and methodical skills for data research and data handling
• Autonomously & output-driven working style
• Experience with marketing and CRM tools preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Microsoft Office; Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint

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