Sales Development Representative Apprentice

BEEWISE LIMITED

BASILDON (SS14 3HX)

Closes in 13 days (Thursday 30 April 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 17 April 2026

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Summary

Join Beewise and be the driving force behind our growth. You'll be on the phone every day, opening doors with UK businesses and helping them save money. If you're ambitious, resilient, and love talking to people, this is your chance to build a real sales career with a fully funded Level 4 qualification and performance bonuses from day one.

Wage

£15,600 to £24,784.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Earn performance bonuses from day one on top of your wage.

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 8:30am to 5:30pm. Friday, 8:30am to 3.00pm.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 11 May 2026

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

  • Make outbound cold calls to UK businesses to introduce Beewise and identify cost-saving opportunities
  • Qualify prospects and gather key information to assess their suitability for our services
  • Book appointments for the senior sales team to follow up and close
  • Manage and update the CRM system with accurate call notes and lead information
  • Follow up on warm leads via phone and email to keep opportunities moving forward
  • Research target businesses and decision makers before making contact
  • Meet daily call targets and contribute to weekly team performance reviews
  • Use AI tools and modern sales technology to improve prospecting efficiency
  • Develop product knowledge across merchant services, utilities, and telecoms to hold confident conversations
  • Support the wider Beewise team with sales administration as required

Where you'll work

Jupiter Business Centre
Paycocke Road
BASILDON
SS14 3HX

Training

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

Training provider

THE APPRENTICESHIP COLLEGE 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 apprentice will be based at our office in Basildon, Essex. They will receive daily on-the-job training and mentorship from the Beewise team, learning how to make outbound sales calls, manage a pipeline, use our CRM system, and develop product knowledge across merchant services, utilities, and telecoms.

Requirements

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
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

Beewise Ltd is a business cost-saving consultancy based in Basildon. We help UK businesses save money and time by matching them with the best providers across merchant services, utilities, phone, and internet. We are growing fast and we want you to be part of it.

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Company benefits

  • Early finish Fridays
  • Permanent role opportunity on completion
  • Sales incentives
  • Team outings
  • Acess to Bright Exchange discount scheme

After this apprenticeship

Upon successful completion of this apprenticeship, it is our intention to offer the right candidate a permanent full-time position within Beewise. From there, there is the opportunity to progress into a Senior Sales Development Representative or account management role. We are a growing company and want our people to grow with us.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE APPRENTICESHIP COLLEGE LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000027041.

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Closes in 13 days (Thursday 30 April 2026 at 11:59pm)