Level 6 Business to Business Sales Professional Degree Apprenticeship - Kingston upon Thames, London – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

Would you like to work with and learn from the biggest brands in the world, bringing your purpose to life with your work? We care as much about the sustainability of our business as we do about the success of our brands and our people. Together, we can feel good about the work we do every day.

Annual wage: £22,716 a year
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Training course: Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Typical day is Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 8 September
Duration: 3 years
Positions available: 2

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

Our Sales Professional programme is ideal for individuals who aspire to enter the world of sales. Individuals will be able to develop their technical sales skills and be a part of a sales team, all whilst gathering valuable work experience. These are some of the sales team’s key responsibilities:

Build strong and sustainable customer relationships
Developing strategic business growth plans focusing on all channels (supermarkets, convenience, online, etc)
Building and nurturing strong and sustainable customer relationships
Creating compelling promotional plans
Collaborating with stakeholders from across the business on best-in-class activation and product innovation launch plans
Analysing performance data using a variety of platforms and data sets and generating

Where you’ll work

3

St James' Road

Kingston Upon Thames

KT1 2BA

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

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Working with others: Influential, able to conduct stakeholder analysis and develop strong relationships at all levels, internally and externally, to build trust. Interacts professionally and ethically maintaining a positive and flexible attitude. Demonstrates emotional intelligence.

Consultative Selling: Works with customers to identify new business and market challenges, utilising insights and good questioning and listening techniques. Identifies strategic & innovative solutions integrating products and excellent service solutions, to meet customer needs.

Pitching: Leads a confident, clear and compelling sales pitch in front of a customer, which builds rapport, establishes credibility and delivers commercial benefit. Handles questions, objections and demonstrates the value of the proposal in a clear, quantifiable way.

Negotiation and Closing: Applies the principles of negotiation, develops strategies and tactics to a mutually agreeable outcome, ensuring both customer and supplier leave committed to the outcome.

Psychology of Sales: Critically reflects on the different psychological needs of customers and other key stakeholders in the buying/selling process. Takes into account strategic and organisational context when adapting their sales approaches, by using the psychological models pertinent to developing positive and ethical buyer and seller relationships.

Leveraging Digital Business: Adopts different approaches to social selling & digital technologies which aid the sales process. Develops a digital selling strategy that leverages social selling to support lead generation, nurturing and customer engagement. Develops digital networks and drives insight-led engagements. Measures results and return on investment.

Your training plan

As an apprentice, you’ll receive on-the-job training and experience in an administrative position along with formal training to gain the knowledge and skills you’ll need to support our business operations. You’ll join a team with a dedicated line manager committed to enhancing your career experiences. You will receive a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Business to Business Sales upon completion of this Apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English Language (grade 4/C or above)
Maths (grade 4/C or above)
in 2 subjects (grade C or above)

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

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Team working
Creative

About this company

Unilever are one of the world's largest fast-moving consumer goods companies, meaning we own, make & sell products that people use in their everyday lives. We own over 400 brands found in homes all over the world – including iconic global brands such as Dove, Lifebuoy, and Magnum. Our apprenticeship programmes allow people from all backgrounds to find their purpose and rise to their full potential, whilst learning invaluable skills and earning a wage. All our programmes offer you on the job experience and formal training to give you the knowledge and skills to fire-up your career and give you the opportunity to work towards nationally recognised qualifications.

https://careers.unilever.com/uk-apprenticeships (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

• A pension Scheme • A discounted staff shop • Subsidised Gym Memberships • Shares • 25 days of holiday allowance

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Good chances of progression to temporary/permanent employment.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000283026.

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Closes on Thursday 9 January

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Level 6 Business to Business Sales Professional Degree Apprenticeship - Kingston upon Thames, London

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