Internal Sales Apprentice

Summary

We are looking for an individual who can bring a high level of enthusiasm with a possibility of progression within the internal or external sales department.

Annual wage

£12,313.60 a year

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The pay may be negotiated and may rise after a probation period has been successfully completed.

Training course

Customer service specialist (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday, to be confirmed.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 9 September

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 be working towards a Level 3 Customer Service qualification provided by the Heart of Yorkshire Education Group.
Training will be delivered in the workplace.

Where you’ll work

Unit 5 Daughter's Ct

Ossett

Wakefield

WF5 9TQ

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

HEART OF YORKSHIRE EDUCATION GROUP

Your training course

Customer service specialist (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice

Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches

Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements

Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes

Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy

Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps

Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction

Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs

Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer

Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format

Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it

Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service

Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome

Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps

Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions

Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement

Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice

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.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English Language (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

Desirable qualifications

NVQ or SVQ Level 2 or equivalent in:

L2 Customer Service (grade PASS/ MERIT)

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
Administrative skills
Number skills
Customer Service

About this company

GS Hydro UK were founded in 1992 and are one of the world’s leaders in offering a range of piping and hydraulic product solutions within various industries including Engineering, Oil and Transport with a worldwide coverage including three UK locations.

https://uk.gshydro.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Possible promotion to a higher level qualification in sales or marketing

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