Sales Executive Apprentice
ALPHABOND TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
NORTHWICH (CW9 7TN)
Closes on Saturday 30 August 2025
Posted on 25 July 2025
Contents
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy, supportive, and friendly team as a Sales Executive Apprentice. You'll focus on generating opportunities over the phone and arranging meetings with those opportunities for our sales representatives. If you have a desire to succeed in the world of sales, then this role is for you!
- Wage
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£28,000 a year
- Training course
- Sales executive (level 4)
- Hours
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Flexible between core hours of 08:00 - 16:30, Monday to Friday
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
The day starts with a team huddle, where you discuss any challenges from yesterday and what you will be achieving today. Your focus will be unearthing opportunities and booking meetings with those opportunities - the day will be filled with being on the phone and using social media to find the right contact and then reaching them.
You are tenacious, unafraid of being on the phones, you will be resilient and able to take the knock-backs that come in sales through telemarketing, you will be organised and understand the bigger picture of why we are booking the meeting. A Typical day will be doing up to 100 dials and having 10-20 conversations through the day and qualifying the meeting to ensure the sales reps are only sitting meetings with quality appointments.
Vision for the role: (3 months):
- Understanding the business
- Completed Cross Training Plan
- Hitting activity targets
- Competently booking meetings/trials
- Technical understanding of the products
- Trained in presenting, ‘why meet’ statements,
(6 months):
- Onsite attendance in factories running trials
- Application knowledge around equipment and machines
- Onboarded some new customers
(12 months):
- Hitting GP targets
- Understanding of full technical range
- Supporting others
- Complete the cross-training plan
- Hitting activity targets, booking meetings and trials technical understanding of the products
Where you'll work
OAKLAND HOUSE
GADBROOK BUSINESS CENTRE
RUDHEATH
NORTHWICH
CW9 7TN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED
Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Sales planning and preparation: Set effective targets using sales forecasts. Prioritise customers and activities to grow account value and maximise return-on-investment in line with your organisation’s strategy. Formulate or refine customer plans and objectives. Create efficient territory plans where appropriate.
- Customer engagement: Effectively communicate and interpret customer information exchanged through written, verbal and non-verbal communication. Develop a customer engagement style that effectively opens sales conversations, builds rapport, enhances customer relationships, and adapts to different customer’s social preferences.
- Customer needs analysis: Be highly skilled at effective questioning and active listening techniques to understand the customer’s needs, guide the sales conversation appropriately, create mutual understanding, and build trust and affinity with customers.
- Propose and present solutions: Develop sales proposals and deliver them using a presentation style and technique appropriate for your customer. Present relevant products and/or services, explain features and their advantages, and clearly articulate the value and benefit of the solution for the specific customer. Use and adapt a range of techniques to draw-out and overcome common sales objections.
- Negotiate: Research the customer’s likely desired outcomes and negotiating stance. Develop responses to likely objections. Identify your own organisation’s needs, such as minimum price and acceptable terms. Negotiate or trade variables effectively.
- Closing Sales: Be attuned to verbal and non-verbal buying-signals andmove to close at an appropriate point in sales conversations. Develop ethical techniques to close sales and confirm customers’ purchase agreement.
- Gathering Intelligence: Collect, analyse and interpret market intelligence and share it appropriately and effectively within your organisation.
- Time Management: Use and adapt appropriate tools and techniques to prioritise and manage your time effectively.
- Collaboration and team work: Contribute effectively within a team environment. Work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders. Manage communications with the cross-functional team in relation to the effective delivery of your sales, such as finance and service delivery. Support continual business improvement by sharing best practice with sales team colleagues and assist the marketing team to develop new marketing collateral.
- Customer experience management: Deliver a positive customer experience. Manage customer enquiries and issues effectively. Take proactive action to prevent and minimise customer concerns and complaints. Handle all customer interactions professionally to the customer’s satisfaction.
- Digital skills: Effectively use digital tools to conduct research and target customers in line with the overall sales strategy. Able to deliver presentations and meetings using digital communication. Complete accurate records and process sales in accordance with your organisation’s policies, procedures and digital CRM systems.
Training schedule
- In addition to gaining practical experience in the role, you will also attain an NVQ Level 4 Sales Executive qualification which will help start your career and give you an insight into the businesses processes and procedures
- Our training is all completed remotely via Teams with a development coach, who will be available for support
- You receive 20% off-the-job training during this apprenticeship, which is included in your weekly working hours
More training information
DBC Training are a multi-award-winning employment and skills training provider.
We offer high-quality employer solutions to improve productivity and learner solutions to support individuals to fulfil their potential
https://dbc-training.co.uk/
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Tenacious and resilient
- 1-2 years work experience
- Detail orientated
Other requirements
Due to the technical knowledge required in this role, please only apply if you have an A Level, or equivalent, in a science subject. If you achieved a grade 7 and above in science at GCSE, your application may still be considered.
About this employer
Formulation and manufacture of hot melt adhesives, No other company makes advances in adhesives technology like we do. That’s why our ground breaking products are trusted by major international manufacturers across the packaging, labelling and product assembly industries. We help clients across all industry sectors: • Speed up production lines • Cut machine downtime • Reduce adhesives consumption • Minimise waste • Slash costs We combine the most technically advanced adhesives with good old-fashioned, down-to-earth service to keep your lines running cleaner and greener 24/7.
https://www.alphabond.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Free onsite parking, free lunches.
After this apprenticeship
Career progression within sales.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED
Heather Duffield
heather@dbc-training.co.uk
07375919487
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333978.
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Closes on Saturday 30 August 2025
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