Sales Engineer/Sales Apprentice
ARCTEC DATA LIMITED
Sandbach (CW11 3AE)
Closes on Monday 1 December 2025
Posted on 29 October 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for a new team member to help raise awareness of our services with more local small and medium sized businesses, and in turn, find new customers for us to work with in the long run. Whilst we work with customers from across the world, this role will initially focus on the north west of England, then expanding to cover more of the UK.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Sales executive (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
1 hour lunch break unpaid.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 1 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
Responsibilities:
- The apprentice will represent Arctec within the local business community, raising awareness of the company’s services and how they can support local organisations, with the aim of generating new customers.
- They will travel as required to attend networking events with local businesses, either in person or online, and confidently demonstrate what Arctec does during 1-to-1 meetings.
- The apprentice will also collaborate with other team members on larger contract and tender applications, contributing both in writing and in person where needed.
- This role involves communicating with potential and existing customers via video calls, in-person meetings, written correspondence, and telephone conversations.
- Additionally, the apprentice will research, identify, and contact new potential customers, passing these opportunities to other team members to complete the sales workflow.
Skills and Attributes:
- Follow and continuously improve the company’s go-to-market strategies.
- Confidently represent the company in person at meetings and networking events.
- Communicate professionally with potential customers via outbound calls and other channels.
- Demonstrate a basic technical understanding of Arctec’s products and services (training provided).
- Use Mac OS and Microsoft Office 365 effectively.
- Deliver excellent customer service at all times.
- Manage time efficiently and stay organised to meet deadlines.
- Show initiative and work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Maintain exceptional attention to detail across all aspects of work.
- Share a broad interest in music, as it’s a valued part of Arctec’s culture.
- Take an active interest in sustainability and demonstrate care for the company’s environmental impact.
Role and Position:
- During the initial training period, the apprentice will be based on-site at Arctec’s office, with the opportunity to work remotely one day per week (Wednesdays) once training is complete.
- The apprenticeship training element will also take place on Wednesdays each week.
On-site parking is available. Although there is a nearby train station, the role will involve attending in-person events to represent the company, so the ability to travel by car is essential.
This role includes a six-month probation period.
Where you'll work
Suite 14, Edwin Foden Business Centre
Moss Lane
Sandbach
CW11 3AE
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
On the job training.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Pass)
- Maths (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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Time management
- Confident
About this employer
Arctec specialise in helping businesses get the most out of their data. They help businesses by building bespoke software, integrating software, automating workflows and providing insightful reporting.
Company benefits
Discounts at popular stores Physical and mental health care Everyone gets a birthday box! Vitality Healthcare plan, which comes with even more benefits! 20 days holiday plus public holidays Additional holiday for your birthday off
After this apprenticeship
Long term career opportunity to help shape the sales process at Arctec.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SR APPRENTICESHIPS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000348543.
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Closes on Monday 1 December 2025
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