Business Development Degree Level Apprentice

Summary

Learn, earn and study a degree with an award-winning employer. The objective of this role is to develop high-quality relationships with students and employers, becoming a trusted advisor for all their training needs, proactively suggesting training solutions to suit their requirements.

Wage

£15,000 a year

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Salary review every January

Training course

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

Hours

Working patterns and shifts to be confirmed - Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm (37.5 hours per week). 3 days in Chelmsford office, 1 day working remotely/at events. 1 day study leave.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

3 years

Positions available

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

This role includes:

Assisting with high-quality client management, ensuring that students and employers are getting the service they need
Representing First Intuition at networking events, school careers events and client engagement activities.
Telephone liaison with both potential and existing students and employers regarding commercial course bookings
Administrative duties as necessary in respect of the business development and client management activities
Working closely with customer service to ensure that client requirements are followed through to a timely conclusion
Working with the operations team on second-stage follow-ups for inbound enquires
Undertaking business development activities to assist the Business Development Manager in bringing new employers and students to First Intuition Essex centres
Working closely with the marketing team to ensure a joined-up approach to business development and marketing for the Essex centre

Key tasks;

The key tasks and responsibilities for this role are split into three main categories:

Business development:

Identifying potential new employers to discuss with the Business Development Manager
Ensuring that further sales opportunities are recognised and promoted to existing clients
Sourcing and attending relevant networking events to share information about First Intuition
Attending school careers events to promote the services First Intuition offers
Attend face-to-face meetings, virtual meetings, and make outbound telephone calls with potential new employers to understand their needs and promote relevant First Intuition services
Proactively following up on leads to ensure potential new students and employers have a high-quality service from their very first interactions with First Intuition
Working together with the wider BD and Marketing team members on ideas for the promotion and sales of our services.

Client management:

Attending face-to-face or virtual meetings and scheduled telephone calls with employers and students
Assisting clients with any queries they may have and ensuring that any bookings are promptly passed on to the customer services team for action
Obtaining feedback from students and employers about the service they are receiving

Administrative activities:

Ensuring that new potential students and employers are input in our Access Planit system
Ensuring leads are recorded and shared with the appropriate team members
General Administrative tasks as appropriate

Where you'll work

Halford House
2 Coval Lane
Chelmsford
CM1 1TD

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

Your training course

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

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What you'll learn

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

Degree from Middlesex University (B2B sales professional) and accrediation with the institute of sales professionals. Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Business to Business Sales.
University training is a mixture of block study in north london (accomodation and food provided) and remote learning.
Apprentices without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end-point assessment.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

AS Level or equivalent in:

Any (grade 2 x D grades min)

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
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

Start date is flexible and can be between July and Sept. Degree study will start in Sept.

About this company

We are an award wining independent training provider. Our values are:- T - Teamwork and Collaboration Collective values are important to us E - Enthusiasm and Positivity Team spirit is fundamental to how we work A - Agility and Adaptability The development of our business is built on proactive creativity and relentless pursuit of improvement M – Motivating and Inspiring As individuals and as a team we work hard to inspire and enable those we engage with externally and internally F - Focus on Personal Relationships I – Influential and Responsible Leadership We are forward-thinking and trusted advisors to aspiring professionals and their employers

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Company benefits

Private medical insurance 25 days annual leave plus bank hols.

After this apprenticeship

We are an expanding team so we expect the apprentice to take on more responsibility for client management and business development overtime. We hope to grow the team so they will eventually manage their own junior staff member.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

FIRST INTUITION CHELMSFORD LTD

Leah Holdeman

leahholdeman@fi.co.uk

01245209900

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323097.

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