Business Development Apprenticeship
McLoughlin Decorating Ltd
Enfield (EN1 3TW)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 8 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 July 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a proactive & well-organised Business Development Apprentice to support the growth of our company by assisting in identifying new opportunities, managing client relationships & supporting the BD Manager. This is a great role for someone who is confident, detail-oriented and keen to learn and develop in a fast-paced environment.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday
8am- 5pm
(one day training)
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- 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
- Support the Business Development Manager in identifying and following up on new business opportunities
- Assist in preparing proposals, presentations and marketing materials
- Maintain and update the CRM system and other databases with client and project information
- Help coordinate meetings, events and networking opportunities
- Draft and send follow-up emails, letters and other correspondence to prospective clients
- Monitor portals and alert the team to relevant opportunities
- Assist in tracking progress against targets and generating reports as needed
- Support the development and upkeep of social media and company website content related to business development
- Provide general administrative support to the business development team
Where you'll work
94 Silver Street
Enfield
EN1 3TW
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
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
- English (grade D grade)
- Maths (grade D grade)
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
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Time Management
- Detail and Accuracy
About this company
McLoughlin Decorating are a family business who have been involved with the apprenticeship scheme for the last 25 years, with very successful results. We will actively support apprentices who would like to progress their training into management etc...
http://www.mcloughlin-gh.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- We invest heavily in training and there are various options available for staff to further their careers
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
McLoughlin Decorating Ltd
Claire Wood
claire@mcloughlin-gh.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332098.
Apply now
Closes in 22 days (Friday 8 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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