Sales Executive Apprenticeship

HAMILTON PHARMACEUTICALS LTD

Stockport (SK3 0RT)

Closes on Saturday 27 September 2025

Posted on 20 August 2025

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Summary

As a Telesales Representative working in our energetic and fast-paced environment, you will be responsible for selling medical consumables to organisations, including aesthetic/beauty clinics, vets and chiropodists from our huge list of products.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Benefits: Free on-site parking

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm. Based in Cheadle Heath Stockport, we are within walking distance of well served bus routes and not far from Stockport town centre.

40 hours a week

Start date

Sunday 28 September 2025

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

  • To create and maintain a customer sales database, from existing lapsed and new prospect accounts.
  • Working to target, completing the required daily number of sales calls.
  • Working to target converting the required number of sales calls to orders daily.
  • To identify new products, involving pricing, margin and competitor analysis.
  • Generate sales through phone, email, WhatsApp.
    *Produce monthly reports including margin, stock and sales analysis.
  • Answering customer queries via email and telephone for order queries and product information.
  • Processing customer orders using our fully integrated order processing and stock system.
  • Involvement in business development projects.
  • Liaising with pickers regarding orders/stock discrepancies, etc.

Where you'll work

Unit B
Orion Business Park, Bird Hall Lane
Stockport
SK3 0RT

Training

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

Training provider

ABM TRAINING (UK) 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

Training will be delivered remotely.
The training schedule has yet to be agreed. An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying. Details will be made available at a later date. 

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

MATHS/ENGLISH (grade C/4 and above)

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
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing company in Stockport, selling medical consumables to organisations including Aesthetic /Beauty clinics, vets and Chiropodists from our huge list of products.

After this apprenticeship

Potential progressions within the company, different areas within the company that would potentially offer options.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ABM TRAINING (UK) LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338021.

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Closes on Saturday 27 September 2025

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