Apprentice Account Manager

PROPACK DIRECT MAIL LIMITED

Huddersfield, HD2 1FA

Closes in 13 days (Thursday 30 January at 11:59pm)

Posted on 16 January 2025


Summary

As an Apprentice Account Manager, you will be responsible for understanding client needs, providing solutions, and ensuring successful execution of print and direct mail campaigns. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in a fully supported environment within an energetic and exciting company.

Annual wage
£22,000 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Training course
Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, shifts TBC.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Monday 10 February

Duration

1 year 3 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

  • You will build and maintain strong relationships with clients, both internally and externally
  • Be a central point of contact for your assigned projects
  • You will take briefs from customers and create quotations
  • Develop an understanding of print terminology
  • Send jobs to production, raising outwork orders, understanding data briefs including different mail sortation methods

Where you’ll work

Unit 4-

5 Fieldhouse Park

Old Fieldhouse Lane

Huddersfield

HD2 1FA

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

NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Your training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents
  • Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
  • Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
  • Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
  • Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrate patience and calmness.
  • Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
  • Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
  • Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Your training plan

  • L2 Customer service practitioner Apprenticeship Standard

You will attend National Business College in Huddersfield one day per fortnight.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE 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

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working
  • Creative

Other requirements

The successful candidate will be outgoing, chatty and have confidence to build relationships with team members and customers. They must be willing to work well with the wider team and not be afraid to ask questions. A great eye for detail would go a long way as they will be looking at artwork pre-production.

About this company

Propack are an award winning print and direct mail company based in Huddersfield. With over 25 years direct marketing experience, they operate a state of the art production site covering: creative, data, print, direct mail, fulfilment and distribution.

https://wearepropack.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

The successful candidate will progress into the role of Client Services Account Manager. They will manage various customers of their own across different business sectors. They will be confident when taking on quote requests and providing advice on our services. Will move on to a higher level Apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Keely Carleton

keely@nationalbusinesscollege.co.uk

01484430433

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000296551.

Apply now

Closes in 13 days (Thursday 30 January at 11:59pm)

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