Gym Sales Associate Intern

Position Overview

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.

Sales & Membership Development

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.

Marketing & Community Outreach

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.

Key Responsibilities

Sales & Client Relations

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 & Expectations

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.