Microsoft

The Programme 

Start Date: September 2025. 
Duration: 12 months. 
  
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world.  
 
This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.   
 
As a Sales Business Development Intern, under supervision, you will identify and build opportunities for partnership and sales with senior-level strategic executive partners through evaluating, prioritizing and pursuing market opportunities to drive market disruptions and new opportunities, becoming a platform player and market creator.  
 
You will create and incorporate a strategy for business by setting objectives, defining the governance model and helping drive the team to create a strong pipeline of opportunities.    
  
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals.  
 
This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. 
 
Responsibilities: 

• Actively supports efforts to identify appropriate parties to partner with/sell to through conducting a partner/customer assessment of their current needs and defining a value proposition to meet those needs.   
• Contributes to the assessment and pursuit of market opportunities and trends for the specialists that provide opportunities for partners/customers to leverage Microsoft platforms/products by identifying, quantifying, and qualifying opportunities with guidance from others.   
• Works with experienced peers/parties to support the evaluation of opportunities in cooperation with partners to identify and prioritize goals and objectives for an achievable target.  
• Coordinates and collaborates with peers to seek out sales or partnership pursuits with customers/partners and represents customers/partners' interests across internal teams to support the design and implementation of plans/programs with guidance from others. Increases customer's awareness of key influencers/players, as well as Microsoft's value proposition, to contribute to customer models and strategies.   
• Contributes to building and maintaining trusted advisor partnerships with cross-functional partners, representing their team to segment leadership.  
• Actively participates in closing mutually beneficial deals with customers/partners, in collaboration with internal partners (e.g., Sales Management Team).  
• Supports discussions with customers/partners to align and help determine customer/partner and Microsoft needs and desired outcomes for a territory. 

Required Skills and Abilities 

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Operations, Computer Science or a related field.  
• Fluent in English.
• Legally authorized to work in South Africa. 

About Us: 

Every company has a mission.  

What's ours? 

To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today.   

Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own.  We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting differences. 
Because impact matters.