Business Development Intern

About the role

Growthpad Consulting Group is looking for a Business Development Intern to support disciplined, evidence-led growth across its consulting, digital, technology and impact storytelling work. The intern researches priority accounts and opportunities, prepares outreach, keeps the pipeline accurate, coordinates follow-up and helps the growth team turn qualified interest into meetings and well-scoped proposals. It is a supervised learning role with clear weekly outputs, lasting eight months, paid with commissions as an additional benefit.

Key responsibilities

• Learn the qualification, discovery, proposal, approval and handoff stages through supervised work and feedback.
• Build researched target-account lists in agreed sectors, verify contacts and procurement routes, and keep CRM records deduplicated and current.
• Spot service opportunities across existing accounts and refer them to the business development lead.
• Prepare outreach drafts, meeting briefs and proposal inputs, and log responses and follow-ups.
• Support weekly targets for qualified accounts, outreach, replies, discovery meetings and progression to proposal, with quality and conversion reviewed alongside volume.
• Coordinate clean handoffs of won work, flagging commercial or payment questions to the responsible owners.
• Update the CRM after every material interaction and submit a concise Friday report on activity, results, conversion, blockers and decisions.

Required profile

• Degree or ongoing study in business, marketing, communications, public relations, technology or a related field.
• Interest in B2B services, digital marketing, technology and development-sector work.
• Relevant internship, campus, research, sales or client-facing experience is useful but not essential.

Required skills

• Confident use of spreadsheets, presentations, email, research tools and a CRM; willingness to learn Asana and reporting tools.
• Clear writing, confident speaking and accurate summarization of prospect needs.
• Reliable collaboration, professional judgment, organization, prioritization and coachability.

What we offer

• Paid, supervised experience with documented performance feedback and commercial skills development.
• Exposure to live B2B opportunities and cross-functional client work.
• Coaching from the growth team and specialists in strategy, content, technology and delivery.
• A clear scorecard, regular feedback and the chance to build a portfolio of measurable work.