Sales Apprenticeship
NESTLE UK LTD.
Crawley, York
Closes on Sunday 22 February 2026
Posted on 9 January 2026
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Summary
Are you ready to kickstart your career in sales and customer management? We’re looking for enthusiastic people to join our Sales Apprenticeship and become the next generation of our Nestlé Sales Team. As an apprentice, you’ll get real, hands-on experience in a busy, exciting business.
- Wage
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£25,125 a year
- Training course
- Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday office based
Shifts to be confirmed
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 2 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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
- Sales and negotiation: How to manage the full sales process—from finding new customers to closing deals—and develop strong negotiation skills to get great results
- Digital and data skills: How to use digital tools and social selling to connect with customers, plus how to read and use data to make smart sales decisions
- Customer and stakeholder relationship management: How to build great relationships with customers and work well with different teams across the business
- Communication and problem-solving: How to give engaging presentations, communicate clearly, and solve real business challenges in creative ways
- Professional growth and ethics: How to lead projects, adapt to new situations, work with different people, and always act with honesty and integrity
You’ll experience student life at Leeds Trinity University which typically involves week-long learning blocks.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Park House North, Crawley Business Quarter, Manor Royal, Crawley, RH10 9AD
- Haxby Rd, Clifton, York, YO31 8TA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY
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.
Training schedule
- Managing key customer accounts: Supporting the execution of commercial plans that drive growth. Gaining real experience to see the impact of your work
- Building and nurturing relationships: Across both internal stakeholders and external buyers, developing your stakeholder management and customer engagement skills
- Delivering impactful presentations: Supporting and leading commercial meetings over time, to resolve operational matters and showcase your negotiation and storytelling abilities
- Analysing data and market trends: Informing sales strategies; optimising trade spend, and driving performance for Nestlé’s core categories (Food, Nutrition, Coffee, Confectionery)
- Problem-solving and innovating in real-time: Tackling commercial challenges and identifying opportunities for growth and sustainability while working with people from all parts of the business, helping to build a fantastic network
Plus, you’ll have one day a week dedicated to your studies. This is your time to focus on the theory behind sales, work on your degree modules, and reflect on what you’re learning on the job. You’ll be able to apply your new knowledge directly to your work, helping you grow even faster.
You’ll experience student life at Nottingham Trent University with week-long learning blocks.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Other 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
- You will have the right to work in the UK that is not time-limited and does not require sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route either at the start of the scheme or on completion
- You will have lived in the UK for 3 years prior to the start date of this apprenticeship scheme
About this employer
Good food nourishes and delights the senses. It helps pets to thrive, children to grow healthily and parents to age gracefully. It helps all of us to live life to the fullest. Good food also respects our planet and protects resources for future generations. But times are changing fast. And we know that what’s good today won’t be good enough tomorrow. Consider the challenge of satisfying the needs of 10 billion people by 2050 in a responsible and sustainable way. This will demand innovation and change. At Nestlé, we’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with food, drink and nutritional health solutions. That way we can enhance quality of life and contribute to a healthier future for all. Today, our business has around 275,000 employees, more than 2,000 brands and a presence in 188 countries.
https://www.nestle.co.uk/en-gb (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Comprehensive benefits, Pastoral support, Employee Assistance Programme, Potential relocation support (£2,000), Prayer rooms, Various rewards and recognition opportunities
After this apprenticeship
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007815.
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Closes on Sunday 22 February 2026
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