Sales and Accounts Associate (Part-Time)

Beans&Beats · Sales (Enterprise / B2B) · Website

The problem

Duration: Jan-May 2027. Working arrangement: Hybrid, 3-day office. Key responsibilities: Assist the team throughout the end-to-end process from pitching to closing and account management — engaging with MNCs and government agencies while figuring out creative strategies or positionings. Challenge — IKEA After-Hours: Create a pitch deck to get brands involved: Assume IKEA Alexandra is closing to the public and opening again at 8pm for one night only. Showroom floor, full store, a few thousand people moving through room sets that have been turned into stages, coffee bars, listening rooms and photo sets. IKEA is title partner for this event. Your job has two halves. First, design the night. What actually happens in a furniture showroom after dark that makes people stay four hours and film all of it? The activations should come out of what IKEA already is (flat-pack, room sets, the Swedish canteen, the maze layout, the yellow bags) instead of a generic party dropped inside a store. Second, sell one slot in it. Choose a single brand from this list, all of whom Beans&Beats has worked with before: Converse, OCBC Frank, JBL, or MCCY. Pitch them a sub-sponsor position under IKEA's title. You are asking them to fund a piece of someone else's event, so you need to explain what they get that they could not get by running their own activation for the same money. The deck is addressed to your chosen brand, not to IKEA. A successful outcome makes a case that brand's marketing lead would push to their budget holder. Helpful resources: Beans&Beats Introduction Deck - 20260812_vF.pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ur_yn4aecPOxviCHlBDLM5JUpMi9BqtC/view?usp=sharing Note: Have fun, refer to the Beans&Beats introduction deck for more context on what we do.

What you produce

A minimum four-slide pitch deck aimed at your chosen brand. Action titles only, meaning each header states the argument rather than labelling the slide. The proposal should include: What the event is. IKEA-focused activations at the event. Why the target brand should participate / the synergies. Potential target brand activations at the event.

The commitment

Starts

Wed 7 Oct, 18:00 SGT

Ends

Wed 7 Oct, 22:00 SGT

Time

On site with the company. Enter the room access code below to apply; submissions open through the end time.

You get

A certificate, judge-attested skills on your profile, and the work itself to show