Rolls-Royce Commercial Degree Apprenticeship - Derby, UK – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

At Rolls-Royce, we’ve been a force for progress for over 100 years. And it’s what’s fuelling our next chapter as we power, protect, and connect people everywhere. As a Commercial Degree Apprentice, you’ll not only be immersed in the commercial side of our global company but play your own part in its success.

Annual wage: £20,735 a year
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Training course: Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 4 years
Positions available: 7

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

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your commercial skills on real projects. You’ll be involved in diverse business issues as you support commercial teams in identifying risks and developing commercial proposals and business solutions. You can expect to put in place and manage new business contracts as well as analysing business cases. Across it all, you’ll gain a detailed insight into how a large, complex company makes a profit and works with its customers, suppliers, and partners. You’ll also work with the teams who strive for continuous improvement in the way things are done.

Where you’ll work

Wilmore Road

Derby

DE24 9BD

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

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY

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

Over four years, you'll complete a series of placements with our commercial teams in Civil Aerospace in Derby. You'll also study for a BA (Hons) degree in Business and Management at University of Derby with costs and study time paid for by us. We'll support you every step of the way, with structured placements and learning and development objectives plus mentoring and sponsorship from experienced professionals.

At the end of the programme, you'll be ready to become a Commercial Officer with Rolls-Royce.

Requirements

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
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

At Rolls-Royce, we pioneer cutting-edge technologies to explore the possibilities of cleaner, safer, more competitive power. As a Manufacturing Engineering Degree Apprentice, you’ll get to work alongside world-class engineers as you help us work towards that goal. Our Manufacturing Engineers develop some of the most advanced manufacturing processes in the world. Turning our designs into reality, you’ll learn from engineers, customers, suppliers and operations specialists. Join us and you’ll be shaping the future, surrounded by experts who’ll help to inspire, challenge and support you to be yourself and at your best.

After this apprenticeship

Join us and you’ll be shaping the future, surrounded by brilliant individuals who’ll help to inspire, challenge, and support you to be yourself and at your best. Add to that the fact you’ll study for a degree in Business and Management as you gain real-world experience, it’s a perfect way to kickstart your career and get a great qualification, debt free.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000287469.

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Closes on Friday 21 February

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Rolls-Royce Commercial Degree Apprenticeship - Derby, UK

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