Higher Education Inside Sales Intern
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Kendall Hunt Publishing seeks a Higher Education Sales Intern to develop sales skills and build trusting relationships with authors. The role is based at the company’s Dubuque home office starting in Summer 2027, with an opportunity for remote work during the school year. It is intended for college students interested in sales; previous sales or publishing experience is not necessary, and scheduling can accommodate classes and extracurricular activities.
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Higher Education Inside Sales Intern
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
1 Positions
ID: 1893582
Posted On 10/28/2026
Job Overview
Kendall Hunt Publishing is looking for Sales Interns for our Higher Education division to develop and improve sales skills, while creating long-term, trusting relationships with our authors. This role is perfect for those who want to gain valuable experience in consultative sales in the publishing world and future careers. Great position for college students looking for a flexible schedule during the school year. No previous sales or publishing experience necessary! We are looking for coachable, highly motivated individuals. This position is located in our home office in Dubuque, Iowa starting in the Summer of 2027 (opportunity for remote work during the school year).
Who Is Kendall Hunt Publishing?
Throughout its history, Kendall Hunt Publishing has grown with an emphasis on its employees, fearlessness in innovation, and a strong grip on its values. Today Kendall Hunt continues to expand by growing its number of educational products, creating new companies, and extending its services across the country and beyond. Through diversity and willingness to adapt to the ever-changing publishing industry, Kendall Hunt is a company dedicated to growing with the public to best serve the people of the community.
When you work at Kendall Hunt you immediately notice the collaboration, friendliness, and a sense of purpose amongst our employees. Our customers, students, authors, and other outside contacts are always our top priority. We are constantly uncovering new sales channels for current product lines or finding new products to sell to current customers. Join our team of evolving employees to help us maintain our competitive edge in the industries we serve. www.kendallhunt.com
What Does A Sales Intern In Higher Education Do?
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Work directly with a Managing Editor and Acquisitions Editors to plan your week
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Assist with meetings and interviews, identify business opportunities, and recruit select college professors to become authors
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Generate leads for outside sales through bookstore contacts, author referrals and cold calling
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Proactively work to gain referrals for other potential authors and adopters
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Assist in managing sales and relationships with assigned authors, including up-selling to existing authors to maximize sales
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Initiate and manage revision and reprint process for assigned authors
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Coordinate contracts and production process for revisions
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Follow-up with prospective and existing authors. This includes keeping notes and next steps in our CRM software for all prospective, in-development, and existing publications.
Who Do We Need?
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Someone who is interested in learning more about a career in sales
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You understand the importance of a positive customer experience and what your role is in that overall experience
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You have an entrepreneurial spirit and look at your career in terms of growing your business
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You are a great communicator, people person and problem solver
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You are competitive with yourself, and others around you
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Someone who possesses enough leadership, motivation and purpose to hold yourself accountable
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Sales experiences is not necessary as long as you are coachable
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You are working towards a Bachelor's degree in a related field
It's More Than Just an Internship!
Come work for our family of companies that strives to be more than just a publishing company. We build more than a community here, we build a family with our employees, and our clients. We will work around your class schedule and extracurricular activities. Our scheduling, and managers, are flexible with you. Plus, we pay our interns! So come learn about how you can grow from an intern to a potential full time hire after graduation!
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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Categories
Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations
Clerical/Office Administration
Education
Publishing/Printing
Sales/Service
Location
Dubuque, IA
Job Type
Employee
Full/Part
Pay/Salary
$15.00 per hour
Company ID
1103
Job REQ #
1893582
# Positions
1
Start Date
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Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
About the Company
As a leader in customized education publishing solutions, Kendall Hunt has been privately owned and operated for more than 75 years. We currently employ approximately 225 people at our Dubuque, Iowa, headquarters, with an additional 70 people throughout the United States.
Our mission is to meet the specific needs of the marketplace in a unique and progressive manner, and we are committed to excellence and employee growth and development.
We offer career opportunities in sales and acquisitions, account management, project development, customer support, information technology, finance, accounting, clerical support and human resources. We provide a comprehensive benefit package and full-time and part-time flexible schedules, including internships.
Our Higher Education Division is a leader in custom publishing of high quality educational products, services and solutions to the higher education market, including digital solutions and eBooks as well as printed material.
Our PreK-12 Division is a leader in publishing solutions of innovative, hands-on inquiry based solutions for the PreK-12 market.
We also collaborate closely with our related educational technology solutions companies to develop and customize publications that integrate multi-media and technology to meet the learning needs and expectations of today' students.
For more information, visit Kendall Hunt' website https://www.kendallhunt.com
An Equal Opportunity Employer
How this job compares
Set against the 519 open Sales Intern jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$15/hr
- US median$20/hr337 hourly ranges
This rate, $15/hr, is 25% below the US median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Sales Intern hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open Sales Intern jobs in Iowa and 519 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 172 of the 519 open Sales Intern jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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