Apprentice Sales Executive
TRAINING AND APPRENTICESHIPS IN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
Norwich (NR10 5NT)
Closes in 10 days (Friday 30 January 2026)
Posted on 16 January 2026
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Summary
Are you out-going with a big personality and hungry for success?We are looking for an Apprentice Sales Executive to work within our small but busy team for a national brand.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
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Wages will increase with experience and after successful performance reviews. competitive salary on completion.
- Training course
- Sales executive (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, standard office hours, 08:30 - 17:00.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 5 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- 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
We are looking for a motivated and hard working apprentice to join a sales team working within a company selling to an international market as a level 4 apprentice Sales Executive . The successful candidate will work within a small , friendly team and be responsible for developing new business opportunities, maintaining strong client relationships, and driving revenue growth. They will receive full training from an external training provider delivering remote sessions and the apprentice will work towards a level 4 Sales Executive qualification. This role offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with a passion for sales and a keen understanding of market analysis to contribute to the organisation’s success.
Day to day the apprentice will be involved in
- Identifying and pursuing new B2B sales opportunities through research, networking,and outreach programmes
- Building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
- Conducting detailed market analysis to identify trends and inform strategic sales approaches
- Meeting potential re-sellers
- Demonstrating products in person and via video link
- Calling potential new customers
- Producing social media content
- Preparing compelling proposals and presentations tailored to client needs
- Negotiating contracts and close deals effectively, ensuring mutual benefit for both parties
- Collaborating with marketing and product teams to develop targeted sales campaigns
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of industry developments, competitors, and product offerings
- Working closely with other departments on marketing / sales strategies and targets. assisting with event planning.
Where you'll work
Pinewood Farm
Shortthorn Road, Stratton Strawless
Norwich
NR10 5NT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
HIT TRAINING LTD
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
The apprenticeship is an on-site delivery and will consit of 80% working and 20% off the job learning.
More training information
All learning will be delivered on-site, at work, through remote delivery and in person meetings.
The apprentice will gather evidence, as they work, to meet the assement criteria and build a portfolio over the duration.
The course will conclude with an End Point Assesment.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Desirable qualifications
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Strong work ethic
Other requirements
Due to the rural location of the business, own transport will be essential, Due to the nature of the role, applicants will need to be natural relationship builders with excellent communication and negotaiation skills.
About this employer
Training & Apprenticeships in Construction Ltd (TrAC) is a DfE approved Flexi Job Apprenticeship Agency who will employ you for the duration of the apprenticeship and pay your salary. You should be aware that you will be placed with a host employer but you will not be employed by them. Your placement may change during the course of your apprenticeship but TrAC will employ you throughout, as well as continuing to support you into employment or further learning at the end of your apprenticeship.
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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
- Employment as a Sales Executive available
- Possible Higher Education
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HIT TRAINING LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000009083.
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Closes in 10 days (Friday 30 January 2026)
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