Gym Sales Associate Intern

About the role

The Gym Sales Intern will play a key role in driving revenue, increasing enrollment, and building strong relationships with athletes, parents, and community members at a high-performance basketball training facility. This role focuses on lead generation, sales, client engagement, and promoting training programs, camps, clinics, and facility rentals. The ideal candidate is outgoing, motivated, sales-driven, and passionate about sports, fitness, and customer service. This position offers hands-on experience in sports sales, business development, and customer relationship management within an elite basketball training environment.

Responsibilities

• Actively promote and sell basketball training packages, camps, clinics, leagues, and facility rentals.
• Engage with prospective members, parents, and athletes to understand their needs and recommend appropriate programs.
• Generate new leads through in-person interactions, phone calls, email outreach, and community networking.
• Follow up with prospective clients to convert inquiries into registrations, memberships, and bookings.
• Identify opportunities to upsell existing clients into additional training packages, programs, and memberships.
• Support membership retention efforts by maintaining strong relationships with current clients.
• Support local marketing and community outreach initiatives to increase brand awareness and drive new business.
• Build relationships with parents, athletes, coaches, and local organizations to generate referrals.
• Promote upcoming leagues, clinics, camps, and special events to increase participation and revenue.
• Assist with promotional campaigns, special offers, and membership enrollment initiatives.
• Represent the facility professionally during tours, events, and community activations.
• Respond to inquiries via phone, email, and in person in a timely and professional manner.
• Track leads, follow-ups, conversions, and membership sales activity.
• Work toward individual and team sales goals.

Qualifications

• Sales Mindset: Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and eager to develop sales and business development skills.
• Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal skills with the confidence to engage prospective clients, explain services, and close sales.
• Customer Service: Friendly, approachable, and committed to creating an exceptional experience for members and guests.
• Basketball & Fitness Knowledge: Interest in basketball, athletic training, fitness, and youth sports culture.
• Organization: Ability to manage multiple leads, follow-ups, and client interactions while staying detail-oriented.
• Technical Skills: Comfortable learning and using platforms such as Mindbody, Google Workspace, and customer relationship management tools.
• Flexibility: Willingness to work a non-traditional schedule, including evenings and weekends.
• Work Ethic: Reliable, proactive, competitive, and comfortable taking initiative in a fast-paced environment.

What You'll Gain

• Hands-on experience in gym membership sales and sports business development.
• Experience generating leads, managing a sales pipeline, and converting prospects into paying clients.
• Exposure to customer relationship management, sales strategy, and membership retention.
• Opportunities to build professional relationships within the basketball and fitness industry.
• Practical experience working in a 15,000-square-foot elite basketball training facility.

Pay

Compensation: College credit for current undergraduate students, unpaid for recent college graduates.

Schedule

Duration: October 2026 - December 2026. Location: Onsite - Brooklyn, New York. Hours: Part-Time/20 Hours Weekly (M-F).