Sales Executive Apprentice

THE ADVENTURE SERVICE LTD

MANSFIELD (NG19 8ER)

Closes on Friday 19 September 2025

Posted on 15 August 2025

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Summary

We’re looking for someone confident, organized, and passionate about the outdoors to turn enquiries into Adventurers, building strong relationships, managing leads, and helping more people achieve their potential through adventure. A varied, people-focused role with real impact.

Wage

£22,000 a year

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Salary £22,000 – £26,000 28 days holiday (including bank holidays) 1-day extra leave per year worked

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 6 October 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

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

The Sales Executive (Apprentice) will play a vital role in driving the growth of The Adventure Service by managing and developing relationships with parent/carers, schools and social work teams.

You’ll be responsible for moving deals through the sales pipeline from initial contact to start their adventure, managing HubSpot CRM, organising and attending meetings and events, and ensuring the Adventurers and their families feel supported throughout.

This role offers the chance to be part of a team passionate about helping people achieve their potential through adventure.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the sales pipeline, prioritising moving deals through from initial contact
  • Maintain and improve HubSpot CRM systems
  • Carry out initial meetings with schools, social work teams, and other partners
  • Attend transition events and outreach activities
  • Follow up with emails and phone calls and suggesting improvements to sequences
  • Manage central inbox communications
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with Adventurers, parents, carers, and social workers
  • Book schools onto our Trailblazers program and proactively visit new schools
  • Target and visit new social work teams in areas
  • Any other duties that may reasonably be required

Skills & Qualities

  • Builds positive, supportive relationships
  • Listens actively and communicates clearly with all stakeholders
  • Embraces change and challenge the status quo with an open mind
  • Acts with honesty, responsibility, and integrity always
  • Shows passion, determination, and pride in their work
  • Confident in taking positive risks to promote learning and growth
  • Highly organised and proactive in managing tasks and systems
  • Demonstrates empathy and patience when working with people with additional support needs and their families
  • Has an interest in the outdoors and enjoys being part of an outdoor-focused organisation

Where you'll work

53 PARK ROAD
MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE
MANSFIELD
NG19 8ER

Training

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

Training provider

SR APPRENTICESHIPS 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

Training will take place at work and will be on-the-go learning

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

Level 3 qualification (grade Pass)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Passion and determination
  • Proactive
  • Open minded

About this employer

The Adventure Service has been focused on supporting people with additional support needs to get outdoors, build independence, skills, and confidence through regular adventures in nature. We help the Adventurers discover what they’re capable of in a way that’s engaging, meaningful, and enjoyable. Our team is friendly and supportive, creating a space where both staff and the Adventurers can grow and thrive together. At The Adventure Service, we’re passionate about making a positive difference, offering opportunities to try new things, overcome challenges, and feel proud of what they achieve through adventure.

Company benefits

Extra holiday entitlement for each year worked Free parking at all sites Travel expenses covered Company Pension On going training Access to a Wellbeing Service

After this apprenticeship

  • Full-time employment for the right candidate

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SR APPRENTICESHIPS LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336999.

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Closes on Friday 19 September 2025

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