Degree Apprentice - Sales

SIEMENS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Manchester (M20 2UR)

Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)

Posted on 6 August 2025


Summary

Sales is exciting and fast paced, it’s very rewarding and will challenge you. You'll join our vibrant Siemens community in Manchester. Your journey combines hands-on Sales and Marketing experience with studying for your BSc Honours Degree. Learning is delivered through a blend of virtual sessions and face-to-face workshops.

Training course
Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Mon-Fri, 8:30 - 16:30

35 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 October 2025

Duration

3 years

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

Ensuring sales success and a positive customer experience by building relationships and understanding our markets.  
Identifying potential customers and managing a prospect pipeline.  
Gaining expertise in Siemens Financial Services Ltd financial solutions and sales strategies.  
Addressing business challenges with innovative solutions and tools.  
Promoting the Siemens brand and values. 

Where you'll work

Sir William Siemens House
Princess Road
Manchester
M20 2UR

Training

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

Training provider

MIDDLESEX 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

Level 6 Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) apprenticeship, including Functional Skills in English and maths if required.

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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Creative

About this employer

Our technology empowers customers to transform the industries that form the backbone of economies: industry, transportation, buildings and grids. Our solutions accelerate the digital transformation of multiple industries, to scale sustainability impact.

After this apprenticeship

Following successful completion of the apprenticeship, subject to a good training record, you could be offered a full time permanent position as a sales professional. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335986.

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Closes in 11 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025)

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