Sales Summer Internship (m/f/d)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Our Summer Internship is an 11-week programme providing you the opportunity to experience all that Visa has to offer alongside completing challenging work, building your skillset, and networking with fellow interns and Visa employees. Throughout the internship you will work on business-as-usual topics within your team, be given an end-to-end project to complete and take part in a variety of trainings to increase your learning. You will also get the opportunity to take part in a global social impact case challenge as well as hearing from senior leaders through our Visa Executive Speaker Series. 

We are looking for a self-starting Intern to work in our Sales team in Frankfurt. 

The successful candidate will be supporting a Key Account Manager and his/her team who is driving sales and marketing activities to develop the business with dedicated customers (e.g. banks or other partners) in Germany. The task involves managing independent projects and will require to work across different business areas including e.g. Product Management, Finance, Marketing. 

The ideal candidate is self-directed, collaborative, highly organized, and a creative problem solver. Candidates should be able to build networks and foster relationships between the client and the Visa organization. Familiarity with the payment landscape and a keen interest for learning how to work with partners is a huge plus 

Join us to leverage Visa's fantastic brand, technology, services, and team to deliver the best results. 

Examples of tasks could include: 

• The opportunity to work with one of our large external clients to deliver projects 

• Providing day-to-day support, execution of initiatives for the client 

• Research industry trends and understand client needs to develop enhanced solutions 

• Reporting and analysis 

• Proactively provide continuous feedback for improving existing processes and activities that are affecting our Account Team and clients. 

• Developing your collaboration, negotiation, influencing, and consulting skills, as well as experiencing how we develop and market products, to promote Visa’s trailblazing technologies to our client. 

Qualifications

Visa Europe is home to a talented team of 26,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Our campaign YOUniqueness, Accepted Everywhere is all about allowing our team to unleash the talent and potential that is uniquely their own. We’re looking for the next generation of change agents – dreamers and creatives - who are fascinated by new technology and want to be empowered to change the way business is done. Therefore, our requirements are few: 

• Students at their penultimate year of university, graduating in 2026 with a Bachelor's or Master’s degree, 

• Ready to start full-time work in June/July 2025 for 11 weeks in the summer.      

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills 

• Able to work as part of a diverse team and provide innovative ideas, including working with a range of stakeholders 

• Comfortable working with data and insights. 

• Fluent in English and German 

Additional Information

Please submit your application in English. 

Visa will only consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the job’s location and will not provide sponsorship for this role.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Summary

• Type: Full-time
• Function: Sales
• Experience level: Entry Level
• Industry: Information Technology And Services