Sales & Marketing Apprentice
S P WOOLHOUSE AND SONS LIMITED
ROTHERHAM (S65 4PD)
Closes in 22 days (Sunday 14 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 November 2025
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Summary
An excellent opportunity for someone looking to gain experience in sales, marketing, and business operations. This role supports the Sales and Administration team, developing new pathways to create sales and assisting with administration. As you develop, you will begin managing client accounts and contributing to marketing/business improvement.
- Wage
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£20,800 a year
- Training course
- Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Full-time Monday - Friday.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 February 2026
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Process customer orders and coordinate with the sales and logistics teams to arrange deliveries.
- Assist with data analysis for sales reporting, customer trends, and campaign performance.
- Handle incoming enquiries via phone, email, and online forms, ensuring excellent customer service.
- Support marketing activities, including social media content, website updates, and promotional materials.
- Contribute to internal projects aimed at improving efficiency, customer experience, or brand visibility.
Where you'll work
HOOTON COMMON FARM
KILNHURST ROAD
HOOTON ROBERTS
ROTHERHAM
S65 4PD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Training course
Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support the development of organisational strategies and plans. Develop and deliver operational plans; being able to set targets and KPIs, manage resources, and monitor and measure outcomes to establish operational effectiveness, efficiencies and excellence. Produce reports that clearly present information and data, using a range of interpretation and analytical processes. Gain wide support to deliver successful outcomes
- Plan, organise and manage resources in order to achieve organisational goals. Identify key outcomes, develop and implement plans and monitor progress, and provide reports as required. Proactively identify risk and create plans for their mitigation. Able to initiate, lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them. Ability to use widely recognised project management tools
- Managing budgets, controlling expenditure and production of financial reports
- Use of customer insight and analysis of data to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships. Creative approaches to developing solutions to meet customer need
- Able to identify service/organisational improvements and opportunities for innovation and growth, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and data and benchmarking against others
- Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly using oral, written and digital channels and platforms. Use active listening and open questioning to structure conversations and discussions, and able to challenge when appropriate. Manage and chair meetings and clearly present actions and outcomes. Ability to apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
- Able to articulate organisational purpose and values. Support the creation of an inclusive, high performance work culture. Enable others to achieve by developing and supporting them through coaching and mentoring
- Able to build teams, empower and motivate others to improve performance or achieve outcomes. Able to delegate to others, provide clear guidance and monitor progress. Ability to set goals and accountabilities
- Able to build rapport and trust, develop networks and maintain relationships with people from a range of cultures, backgrounds and levels. Able to contribute within a team environment. Effectively influence and negotiate, being able to have challenging conversations and give constructive feedback. Work collaboratively with internal and external customers and suppliers
- Able to reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs. Ability to understand impact on others. Can manage stress and personal well-being, and confident in knowing core values and drivers
- Able to create personal development plan, and use widely recognised tools and techniques to ensure the management of time and pressure effectively, and prioritisation and strategic alignment of activities
- Use evidence-based tools and ethical approaches to undertake problem solving and critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to support decision making
Training schedule
- Completion of a Level 6 Charted Manager degree apprenticeship.
- You will study part-time at Sheffield Hallam University.
- A minimum of 6 hours per-week spent studying.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Time management
- Basic understanding of GDPR
- Data analysis skills
- Adaptability
- Ability to work under pressure
About this employer
SP Woolhouse & Sons Ltd is a family-run commercial farming and manufacturing business based just outside Doncaster. We are a leading supplier of hay and haylage across the UK and internationally, delivering high-quality forage products to the equestrian, zoo, and small pet sectors. Through our well-established brands, M&T Haylage and HayDay, we manage the full process from seed planting to delivery, ensuring consistent premium quality. Since 2014, our team has grown from four employees to 18 full-time staff, with further expansion underway. As demand continues to increase, we are investing in our people, processes, and products to support future growth.
After this apprenticeship
- Full training and support to complete your apprenticeship qualification.
- Hands-on experience across sales, marketing, customer service, and operations.
- Opportunity for long-term progression, including account management and project involvement.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001815.
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Closes in 22 days (Sunday 14 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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