Business Sales Apprentice at Deaf Charity

Summary

We are looking for a Business Sales Apprentice to support our Operations Manager and staff in our office in Ilford, with their busy diaries, administration tasks and other duties as appropriate. We are a small but successful Charity that prides itself on its team work ability. To ensure this, the successful candidate must be willing to be flexible.

Annual wage

£12,646.40 to £22,605.44 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Competitive salary - £18,000.00 - £24,000.00 per annum

Training course

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

Hours

Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.

38 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 7 January

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

As a Business Sales Apprentice you will:

Communicate in with staff members/deaf clients in BSL
Provide diary management support where required
Maintain high level of discretion and confidentiality at all times
Screen calls and face to face enquiries
Coordinate meetings and take minutes
Follow up on actions taken from meetings
Deal appropriately with correspondence
Maintain emails and mail where required
Produce reports and presentations
Assist with events coordination
Other ad hoc duties as required

Where you’ll work

2A

Central Parade, Ley Street

Ilford

IG2 7DE

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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information

British Sign Language training will be provided

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
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness
High level English Proficiency
Telephone Manner/Skills

About this company

It is an interpreter agency that supports the Deaf community.

After this apprenticeship

Business Sales
British Sign Language Professional
Disability Awareness
Charity Sector

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