Sales Development Representative Placement Student (French or German speaking)

12 month work placement as part of degree | Central London based (Old Street) | July 2025 start date | £27,500 per annum

WHAT IS BOX?

Box is the world’s leading Content Cloud. We are trusted by more than 115K organizations around the world today, including nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 and leaders across deeply regulated industries (such as AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide), to protect their data, fuel collaboration, and power critical workflows with secure, enterprise AI.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to continue driving our platform forward. Content powers how we work. It’s the billions of files and information flowing across teams, departments, and key business processes every single day: contracts, invoices, employee records, financials, product specs, marketing assets, and more. Our mission is to bring intelligence to the world of content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows across their organizations. With the combination of AI and enterprise content, the opportunity has never been greater to transform how the world works together and at Box you will be on the front lines of this massive shift.

Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and we have offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

 

WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

Imagine you have just completed your 12 month placement, what have you achieved? Well if you join Box as a Sales Development Representative here a few things:

• Make a similar business impact as our previous cohorts of placement students: Hear from previous placement students at Box!

• Through ongoing training and experience, you will confidently able to hold a business conversations  with a breadth of senior level B2B decision makers.

• Deep understanding of the Marketing function as you work very closely everyday with the Marketing team. 

• Get involved in projects that support the wider sales team.

• Being based in a EMEA HQ,  you will get to experience from the inside on how a high growth cloud SaaS technology company works.

• Had a lot of fun along the way! #lifeatbox

What does a Sales Development Representative (SDR) actually do? 

This is typically the entry point for anyone looking be begin a career in tech sales or business development, you will work closely with Account Executives who are closing the pipeline you generate.  

It is often said you only have one chance to create a first impression. As an Account Development Representative you are on the frontline as that very first touch point to a number of amazing businesses, from well known major companies, government departments and to a cool new FinTech AI start up.

You will have a target to reach in form of a quota and set meetings with senior level decision makers for our Account Executives, your opportunity to win business and create impact over your 12 months with us is real.

 What does that mean day to day?

• Qualify leads from various sources including website, marketing events, seminars and incoming calls, from initial contact to a qualified appointment with an Account Executive.

• Find up-sell opportunities

• Involvement in account planning and mapping exercises with wider sales team.

• Get involved in projects that support the wider sales team.

• Build key relationships with prospects to gain a deep understanding of company and prospects goals to enable expansion of BOX technology and solutions across the enterprise.

• Undertake campaigns with Marketing around specific business propositions and market awareness.

• Manage accurate administration of our lead management system (Salesforce.com). 

 

WHO YOU ARE

• To be eligible you must be an undergraduate student in a placement year course returning to study Autumn 2026, you also will need to have the right to work in UK already in place.
• Communication:  you build relationships through your strong phone / video presence and excellent written language capability.
• Drive: you demonstrate a level of resilience to overcome objections and have a “can do” attitude to delivering personal goals. 
• Attention to detail: everybody makes mistakes, even the most detail oriented employee. You will be detail oriented by nature, learn from mistakes and able to prioritise effectively ensuring quality on sometimes tight deadlines.
• Commercial Acumen: you are able to problem solve and creatively uncover new opportunities to fuel future sales pipeline.
• Fluent in either French or German: this role will be supporting our DACH or Southern Europe team, so fluent German or French speaking is required. 
• If you are studying something Business, Management or Marketing related it would be a plus, however from experience you don’t need a specific degree background to be successful as a placement student in box. 

 

How do I apply? 

1. Submit CV 

2. Video Interview with a member of recruitment team

3. Video Interview with the hiring manager

4. Video Interview with your potential team members

 

Have you hired placement students before? 

This year we have five placement students across Commercial Sales, SDR, Marketing, Partner Sales and GTM Ops.

Review our ratemyplacement rating here: https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/company-profile/4750/Box 

 

BENEFITS

Box Benefits package includes pension, medical and dental coverage. We have a robust wellness program including 25 days of vacation (plus your birthday off!) and subsidized gym membership. There is such a thing as a free lunch, you can order from a daily menu along with lots of snacks and drinks. EMEA HQ office is located in the impressive White Collar Factory on Old Street; www.whitecollarfactory.com and other European offices in Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, and Warsaw.

 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation.

For details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Personnel Privacy Notice.

 

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