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Sales Apprentice

Longriver Group

LOCATION
📍 BURNHAM, SL1 6DQ
PAY
💶 £20,475 a year
HOURS
⏰ 38 hours per week hrs/week
DURATION
📅 1 Year 6 Months
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SECTOR
Sales, marketing and procurement

Requirements

Apprenticeship Standard: Sales executive (level 4) (Level 4) Desired skills: Communication skills, IT skills, Attention to detail, Organisation skills, Customer care skills, Problem solving skills, Presentation skills, Administrative skills, Analytical skills, Logical, Team working, Creative, Initiative, Non judgemental, Patience, Sales experience, Ambitious, Personable, Keen to learn and develop

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About this apprenticeship

As a Sales Executive, you’ll be joining a team that bends over backwards to help schools with their equipment needs and will be responsible for contributing to the smooth running of the Admin Team! Attention to detail is key and you’ll speak to schools daily. Training is thorough and daily support is on hand to help you be the best at what you do, and a long-term career with Utility Rentals is available on completion of your apprenticeship!
We are looking for someone with exceptional organisation skills to join our young, dynamic, fast-growing team. 
As Internal Sales Apprentice you will be joining a team that bends over backwards to help schools with their equipment needs. Whether it be a classroom set of iPads, 100 x laptops or a brand-new range of Food Technology appliances, you will be able to offer schools market leading rental packages that other companies cannot compete with. You’ll be looking after our existing customers on a daily basis and will be approaching new customers to help them with their equipment needs. Training is thorough and daily support is on hand to help you be the best at what you do. And supplier incentives reward you for your consistent hard work! 
Your daily duties will include:

Outbound calling to schools to introduce our services
Taking inbound calls from customers and suppliers and assisting them or escalating them within the team where necessary
Maintaining and cleansing our database
Regular communication with existing customers, prospects and suppliers
Researching potential customers and sourcing new sales leads and developing them into potential customers
Supporting the sales and marketing team with administration work
Provide support to the sales team such as typing letters and emails and preparing & distributing standard quotations and proposals
Follow up calls where quotations have been submitted
Supporting various marketing initiatives
General administrative duties

Desired skills:

Impeccable attention to detail at all time
Previous office or sales experience is preferred
Excellent communication and organisational skills
Have a professional telephone manner and demonstrate excellent written English
Minimum GCSE, or equivalents, maths and English grade C 
Be dynamic and professional, with exceptional relationship building skills
Be very proficient with all MS Office applications and be able to learn new IT skills and applications quickly

Training

Sales Executive Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard:

Training will be taken place at work 
There are no requirements to travel elsewhere other than the office 
Training will be ongoing in the workplace

What you could go on to do

Long term career prospects with a growing organisation

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