Account / Sales Executive - Apprentice – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

Are you a motivated, ambitious individual looking to launch a career in sales? Do you want to learn the ropes in a supportive environment, with real world training? Then this could be the perfect opportunity for you! We now have a fantastic opportunity to build your career as a Sales/Account Executive, within our Sales team.

Annual wage

£22,000 a year

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Salary is up to £22,000 per year, depending on experience.

Training course

Sales executive (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Sunday 15 December

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

Accurately update and maintain Freshdesk (our helpdesk portal) with professional service enquiry (PSE) updates, on a daily/regular basis, in readiness for the weekly Team review.
Creation, commercial validation and prompt processing of customer quotations and proposals in Sage X3, including PSE quotations, licence quotations, bespoke software requirements (BSR) and technical consultancy requirements (TCR) proposals.
Utilise Zoho CRM for opportunity management by tracking open customers quotations and proposals and proactively communicating with customers for progress updates.
Accurately maintain sales progress updates in Sage X3 (our ERP platform) to ensure full transparency across the business on project timescales and upcoming work to be scheduled.
Communicate with Sage and partners on quotations required by customers and follow-up, updating both internally and externally.
Support in the preparation for customers meetings, including compilation of information from Freshdesk on Support tickets, PSE and financial updates, and renewals.
Attend internal and external meetings as the minute taker, ensuring minutes are accurately recorded, produced and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders promptly, and assisting the team with any follow-up actions.
Assistance with diary management, liaising with customers, partners and colleagues to create scheduled appointments with no clashes.
Update and maintain customer spreadsheets i.e. the Customer Meetings and the Customer Product Portfolios in readiness for performance targets and revenue opportunities analysis.
Promote new Mysoft products and solutions to customers, ensuring they are sent relevant datasheets and updates on the latest features and functionality.
Provide monthly sales results to the sales team, analysing how the team have performed against the overall target month on month, by quarter and annually.
Assistance with maintaining customer information in M drive, CRM and Sage X3 to include elements such as licence volumes, patching level, contracts, annual pricing changes, partner solutions, etc.

Where you’ll work

SYSTEMS HOUSE

REDFIELDS IN

CHURCH CROOKAM

CROOKHAM

GU52 0RJ

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

APPRENTIFY 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

Training will be provided via the Level 4 Sales Executive Apprenticeship programme with Apprentify, one of the top-rated training agencies delivering digital and technical apprenticeship programmes from start to finish. You’ll be set up for success with a blended learning approach including virtual classroom days, personalised coaching sessions, self-led e-learning and activities to practice what you’ve learnt. At Mysoft we care about our employees as much as we do our customers and you’ll receive full support from the team.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English Language (grade 4 or Above)
Maths (grade 4 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
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Initiative

About this company

Here at Mysoft, we’re on a mission to enable our customers to unlock their business potential via Sage X3 Enterprise Resource Planning, and Sage Intacct software. We are the longest-standing Sage X3 partner and one of the most innovative Sage Intacct partners in the UK with over 450 years of combined expertise in the sale, implementation, development and support of Sage solutions. Helping our customers grow and evolve their business, arming them with the tools and skills to perform at their best, is at the heart of what we do!

http://www.mysoftx3.com (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

On offer is a competitive starting salary, 25 days holiday, Healthcare Cash Plan, Employee Assistance Programme, Volunteering Leave, Free onsite car parking.

After this apprenticeship

In your first year you’ll be the back bone of our Sales team, learning from the ground up and taking on all the administrative tasks to support our sales operations. Within 12 to 18 months, you’ll have gained the confidence and skills to take your first step into a customer facing role, which could be Sales or Account Management, and eligibility into the Sales Bonus Scheme. So long as you prove you're the right person for the job, we'd try and keep our apprentices on as full-time employees.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

APPRENTIFY LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000289173.

Apply now

Closes in 9 days (Saturday 14 December)

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Company’s application instructions

Sound like the job for you? Then send us your up-to-date CV, along with a short statement (500 words max) stating why you’re interested in the role, and what three personal attributes you have would make you great for our role.

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