2025 Canon Insights Summer Internship - Direct Customer Sales Intern

About the Role

Canon Financial Services, Inc. is currently hiring for our 2025 Canon Insights Internship Program.   Getting real world experience prior to graduation is invaluable in determining career goals and aspirations.  Students who attain actual work experience through the internship program have an advantage, as they begin their future job search.  As an Intern at Canon Financial Services, you will be exposed to business, marketing and strategy initiatives.  You will develop business skills and provide a meaningful contribution to Canon's business and goals.  The Canon Insights Internship Program will give you access to various business units within Canon, as well as our key leaders. - The Canon Insights Internship Program is a comprehensive summer program that will run for 10 weeks from June 3, 2025 - August 8, 2025.  - It is a full time (8:30AM-5PM) schedule, based on a 37.50-hour workweek, and is a paid internship. - Interns are required to come to the office 2 out of 5 days a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays).

Your Impact

This program is designed to provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to gain hands-on work experience by participating in significant work projects, training, meetings, presentations, and activities.   This is a unique opportunity to support a newly implemented team at Canon Financial Services and play a role in developing the Direct Customer Sales group.  The key focus for this position is to increase repeat leasing business by leveraging existing relationships and to on-board new dealers for future solicitation.  You will utilize telemarketing and inside sales skills, calling upon Canon Financial Services’ existing customer portfolio to achieve sales volume results, application activity and telephone sales objectives.   The intern will be responsible for the following: - Position includes providing general support for our Sales Support team. - Learn a variety of tasks related to Canon/CFS Sales Support and Marketing - Develop direct customer relationships with existing customers for repeat business through use of telemarketing and inside channel sales strategies  - Solicit new leasing business for various equipment types, offering CFS lease finance services. Work with authorized signers, owners, managers, and other customer associates to understand timing of financing needs and their decision-making process for acquiring new equipment.   - Serve as contributor to the development of overall marketing strategies for Direct Customer Sales    - Use professional, creative persuasion and persistent sales outreach efforts working with customers to use CFS’s equipment leasing services.  - Provide regular updates to management to ensure understanding of financing requirements and direct customer needs in the marketplace.  - Process lease applications, create lease agreements, provide general sales support telephone coverage. - Work closely with the Sales Support team to learn best practices and provide excellent service to our dealers and customers. - Individually send emails and place telephone calls to select audiences to share CFS value proposition and learn those types of business activities. - Attend regular meetings with team members and management to coordinate and share activities, new learnings and project updates and review results. - Work with Marketing team and Sales Support for education purposes, learn the lease process, common questions and answers. Research questions internally with team members and provide timely responses back to dealers and customers.  - Collaborate and interface with team members for clarification or to escalate necessary tasks swiftly and efficiently.

About You: The Skills & Expertise You Bring

We prefer students that are entering their Junior or Senior year as of the Summer 2025, however, all are welcome to apply. To succeed in the Insights Program, you must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong computer skills including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as the ability to work independently and as part of a team. We also require candidates to be enrolled in a related major in the department of interest and have some former work or internship experience.   - Effective communication skills - Organizational skills - Self-motivated - Ability to multi-task - Strong interpersonal skills - Willingness to experience a wide variety of sales, marketing, and finance business activities. - Enrolled student We are providing the anticipated rate for this role: $20.00 hourly.

Company Overview

About our Company - Canon Financial Services, Inc. (CFS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $30.3 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks thi