Associate Inside Sales Rep - Graduate Program

Full time on site
Associate Inside Sales Rep - Graduate Program
Job Description

Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards it maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

About the S3 Program

As a company committed to developing our future workforce, we created a program that will enable you to fast track your career through classroom and on-the-job training and clear benchmarks.

At the start of the program, we will fly you to the United States to take part in our robust 90-day training program based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. During this training, Academy participants gain the foundational knowledge needed to have a basic understanding of the Storage Industry, NetApp, and products and solutions. Additionally, they effectively develop transferable soft skills that will allow them to excel within the organization and in their long-term careers.

You will experience an exciting 3 months with Graduate peers from all over the world. Afterwards you will return to Ireland to start the on-the-job portion of your training

Do not miss this opportunity and join us!

Application Deadline: July 10th, 2026
Start date: August 17th, 2026

Job Responsibilities

As an Inside Sales Representative at NetApp, you will play a key role in driving new customer acquisition and growth. You’ll use outbound and inbound prospecting to engage prospects and existing customers through an omni-channel approach, to discover, qualify and understand their business challenges, and position NetApp’s hybrid cloud and data solutions to meet their needs. Working closely with our channel, marketing, and technical teams, you will build and manage your own pipeline, generate new opportunities, and contribute directly to NetApp’s success in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

  • Drive customer and cross-selling acquisition through phone, email, and digital
    outreach.
  • Prospect in and outbound, to drive new qualified pipeline, discover and qualify.
  • Understand customer needs and clearly communicate NetApp’s value propositions
    across 3-5 use cases
  • Collaborate with the channel to deliver proposals.
  • Generate new business through proactive prospecting, including cold calling and
    targeted campaigns & social selling.
  • Support marketing initiatives such as events, webinars, and lead-generation campaigns.
  • Maintain accurate pipeline management, forecasting, and activity tracking in CRM
    systems.
  • Work closely with sales, technical specialists, and channel teams to ensure a seamless
    customer experience.

Requirements

  • Recent graduate or early-career professional with up to 2 years of experience gained through internships, part-time work, university projects, or early-career roles.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence, and build relationships with customers and stakeholders.
  • Interest in developing a career in technology sales, business development, and pipeline generation within a B2B environment.
  • Curiosity about cloud, AI, storage, and emerging technologies, with previous exposure through studies, projects, internships, or work experience being a plus.
  • Self-motivated, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Comfortable learning and using CRM systems, sales prospecting tools, and other technologies to support customer engagement and business growth.
  • Fluent in English and one of the following additional languages: Danish, French, German, or Swedish; able to work successfully in an international and collaborative environment.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. now.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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