Sales Executive Apprentice - Telesales

M H G (SUPPLIES) LTD

1 Holbrook Rise,, S20 3FG

Closes in 18 days (Wednesday 9 October)

Posted on 12 July 2024

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Summary

We’re looking for ambitious sales executive apprentices looking to progress their careers and take their first step into the world of sales, working with a long established organisation based in Sheffield. A Sales Executive is a person working in either the Business to Business or Business to Consumer markets with the responsibility to sell.

Annual wage
£12,480 a year

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Starting wage is negotiable, depending on your experience.

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
Between 9a.m to 5:30p.m Monday to Friday.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 14 October

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • Here at The Apprenticeship Centre we are recruiting on behalf of MHG Supplies to help find a great sales executive apprentice. We are on the hunt for hungry, money-motivated individuals keen to start or continue their career within sales.

    Ideally you will be:

    Articulate and personable in your approach, with a great telephone manner and great sales skills
  • Highly organised, with excellent communication and administration skills
  • Target-driven with a strong sense of initiative
  • Able to work independently as well as within a team to achieve results
  • Competitive and money driven
  • The successful candidate will be passionate about starting a career within sales, have a clear idea of their own career progression path and will be confident in their ability to speak with prospects at all levels and sell

Day to Day tasks:

  • Reaching out to prospective clients over the phone, face to face, using social selling and email marketing
  • Continue to foster and build client relationships with current accounts, upselling where appropriate
  • Maintaining pipeline activity, keeping it topped up and keeping the CRM systems up to date

This apprenticeship qualification covers and will help you develop skills in:

  • Sales fundamentals
  • The sales lifecycle
  • Negotiation
  • Understanding your product portfolio
  • Closing a sale
  • Ethics and legalities
  • Gathering Intelligence
  • Presentation

Where you’ll work

1 Holbrook Rise,

S20 3FG

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED

Your training course

Sales executive (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • Sales planning and preparation: Set effective targets using sales forecasts. Prioritise customers and activities to grow account value and maximise return-on-investment in line with your organisation’s strategy. Formulate or refine customer plans and objectives. Create efficient territory plans where appropriate.
  • Customer engagement: Effectively communicate and interpret customer information exchanged through written, verbal and non-verbal communication. Develop a customer engagement style that effectively opens sales conversations, builds rapport, enhances customer relationships, and adapts to different customer’s social preferences.
  • Customer needs analysis: Be highly skilled at effective questioning and active listening techniques to understand the customer’s needs, guide the sales conversation appropriately, create mutual understanding, and build trust and affinity with customers.
  • Propose and present solutions: Develop sales proposals and deliver them using a presentation style and technique appropriate for your customer. Present relevant products and/or services, explain features and their advantages, and clearly articulate the value and benefit of the solution for the specific customer. Use and adapt a range of techniques to draw-out and overcome common sales objections.
  • Negotiate: Research the customer’s likely desired outcomes and negotiating stance. Develop responses to likely objections. Identify your own organisation’s needs, such as minimum price and acceptable terms. Negotiate or trade variables effectively.
  • Closing Sales: Be attuned to verbal and non-verbal buying-signals andmove to close at an appropriate point in sales conversations. Develop ethical techniques to close sales and confirm customers’ purchase agreement.
  • Gathering Intelligence: Collect, analyse and interpret market intelligence and share it appropriately and effectively within your organisation.
  • Time Management: Use and adapt appropriate tools and techniques to prioritise and manage your time effectively.
  • Collaboration and team work: Contribute effectively within a team environment. Work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders. Manage communications with the cross-functional team in relation to the effective delivery of your sales, such as finance and service delivery. Support continual business improvement by sharing best practice with sales team colleagues and assist the marketing team to develop new marketing collateral.
  • Customer experience management: Deliver a positive customer experience. Manage customer enquiries and issues effectively. Take proactive action to prevent and minimise customer concerns and complaints. Handle all customer interactions professionally to the customer’s satisfaction.
  • Digital skills: Effectively use digital tools to conduct research and target customers in line with the overall sales strategy. Able to deliver presentations and meetings using digital communication. Complete accurate records and process sales in accordance with your organisation’s policies, procedures and digital CRM systems.

    • Your training plan

    Level 4 Sales Executive Standard.

    Teaching and learning the skills, knowledge and behaviours to be a competent Sales Executive.

    Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE or equivalent in:

    • English (grade 4)
    • Maths (grade 4)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Administrative skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Communication skills
    • Customer care skills
    • IT skills
    • Organisation skills
    • Presentation skills
    • Sales Skills

    Other requirements

    Have you considered wage / location / hours?

    About this company

    Supplying point of sale consumables and plastic cards from Sheffield for over 40 years. We’ve been doing this for years. MHG Supplies are the Sheffield based supplier of a wide range of consumable products for identification, till systems, product presentation and much more to clients across the U.K. We’ve stayed ahead of the competition by working together and adapting as technology has changed the industry and the world around us. Ensuring that service is always our top priority we have retained clients for decades as we continue to evolve with their changing needs.

    After this apprenticeship

    The company will offer a long term employment opportunity on successful completion of the apprenticeship, with increased earning potential.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000264491.

    Apply now

    Closes in 18 days (Wednesday 9 October)

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