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UK Business Development intern for a Fashion tech startup

Company Overview

This company is a fast-growing fashion-tech startup helping major fashion and luxury brands solve the sizing challenge across the value chain. Through technology and strategic consulting, they help brands better serve their customers and reduce returns due to incorrect sizing. Their clients include some of the most well-known fashion names globally, and the team is passionate about making fashion more inclusive and efficient.

About the Role

As a UK Business Development Intern, you will play a key role in expanding the company’s presence in the UK and English-speaking markets. You will help identify and engage with potential clients, build strong outreach strategies, and support the sales pipeline from first contact to qualified lead. This is an ideal role for someone interested in sales, marketing, and the fashion-tech space.

Key Responsibilities

  • Research and identify prospective fashion and retail brands in the UK and English-speaking markets.

  • Assist in building outbound lead generation campaigns, including cold emails and LinkedIn outreach.

  • Qualify inbound and outbound leads and schedule meetings for the senior sales team.

  • Support the Head of Sales in prospecting, CRM updates, and reporting.

  • Collaborate with Marketing and Customer Success teams to optimise outreach strategies.

  • Contribute to market analysis and competitive intelligence for the UK market.

Ideal Profile

  • Currently studying or recently graduated in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, especially in written English.

  • Comfortable speaking with new people and confident in outbound outreach.

  • Highly organised, proactive, and eager to learn.

  • Interest in startups, tech, and the fashion industry.

  • Familiarity with sales tools (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce) is a plus.

  • Spanish is not required but a bonus!

Internsjip Details

  • Duration: 6 months (start date asap)

  • Location: Remote or in Madrid

  • Compensation: Paid at minimum living wage

Why Apply?

This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in international sales and business development in a high-growth fashion-tech company. You’ll work closely with an ambitious and friendly team and play a key part in helping scale operations in the UK market. If you’re excited about startups, sales, and fashion, this role is for you.

MANIMA – Digital Marketing Intern

Company Overview

MANIMA is a sustainable and contemporaneous lifestyle brand with a strong social impact.

We serve discerning and intentional customers who enjoy uniqueness and care for ethical and environmental values whom we offer contemporaneous and fashionable products made by extraordinary embroiderers and artisans in Italy.

Our mission is to inspire and drive an urgent transformation in the luxury segment towards a model where quality, authenticity and beauty of products are inseparably connected with the respect for people and the planet.

At MANIMA each product is made from finest environment friendly materials to last for generations.

You can check out the website here

Opportunity

There is the opportunity for an intern to work on our Marketing and Market Research. We are looking for an intern to drive forward our Social Media marketing campaigns as well as help with key market research from market sizing to competitor analysis and help us to determine the next part of our strategy. Given our nimble size the intern will get exposure to all parts of the value chain and be able to develop their work into the areas that they find most interests them.

You will have in-depth 1-1s with the team to ensure that you have a strong overview of the products and our strategy. If there are certain areas of interest and capabilities that you would like to develop then you will certainly be entitled to taking time to research these further and educate yourself.

Salary & Holiday

Remuneration will be decided based upon the curriculums that we receive. Although we cannot always guarantee a salary we will ensure that the work is stimulating and ensures you get the tailored experience you’re looking for.

Velasca – Customer Success Intern

Company Overview

The headquarters of the Velasca is in Milan. We are currently a team of roughly forty people, half in the office and the other half in our stores, which are known as ‘Botteghe’ based both in Italy and abroad. Velasca is a company made for those who do not want to follow trends every six months but are looking for a timeless style which never goes out of fashion. Our customers want the know-how handed down from father to son and a company able to create hand-made shoes that last over time because they have been made with that Italian passion and a wealth of knowledge which has built up over the years. We are different from traditional shoe brands because we do not use distributors and retailers. This means there is no intermediary between us and the final consumer. This is why you can only find the Velasca at Velasca. In this way, we are able to offer great quality products at affordable prices.

We put together two very different worlds: the tradition of Italian craftsmanship and the innovation of the digital world.

Opportunity

The candidate we are looking for will be placed in the Customer Service department.

The intern’s tasks will include but not be limited to:

  • Multi-channel customer management in English: Tickets, Chat, Phone.
  • Relationship management with customers, with the external Customer service Business Unit and our external logistics
  • Pre-sales, sales and post-sales assistance
  • Customer acquisition and recovery activities
  • Coordination and collaboration with the external Customer Service support business unit
  • Relationship with external logistics and points of sale
  • 360 ° management of the courier world (control of shipments, stocks, junctions, insertion of collections etc.)
  • Understand and manage online returns from customers to warehouse and also from customers directly to our ‘Botteghe’
  • Software exposure and learning (Netsuite, Shopify, Gsped)
  • Management of reviews and public customer feedback on the various platforms

Key learning for the intern: The educational value for the intern will be to learn how to manage customer relationships, how to best manage all critical issues which arise during our daily work, learn the use of management systems that support us in managing all relationships with our clients from every aspect

Required level of Italian: basic

Salary & Holiday

600 Euros per month. Holiday will be at 2 days per month of the internship.