Sales & Marketing Executive Apprentice
BUBBLEGUM STUFF LTD
London (E14 0FP)
Closes in 27 days (Monday 20 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 23 September 2025
Contents
Summary
The Sales Executive will be responsible for managing customer relationships, working with the sales team to achieve sales targets, conducting market research, generating sales leads, and participating in sales meetings.
- Wage
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£20,800 a year
- Training course
- Sales executive (level 4)
- Hours
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9am-5:30pm with 30-minute unpaid lunchbreak. Days to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- 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
- Develop and implement effective sales strategies to achieve company targets
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and partners
- Conduct market analysis to identify new opportunities for growth
- Collaborate with marketing teams to align sales initiatives with promotional campaigns
- Utilise Quickbooks for tracking sales activities and customer interactions
- Prepare and deliver compelling presentations to potential clients
- Attend trade shows and industry events to promote our products
- Provide feedback to product development teams based on client needs.
- Strong analytical skills to assess market trends and performance metrics
- Familiarity with CRM software is an advantage
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- A passion for pop culture and novelty products is a plus
Where you'll work
Studio 52 Riverside Building
55 Trinity Buoy Wharf
London
E14 0FP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SR APPRENTICESHIPS LIMITED
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 take place at work.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Creative
- Microsoft
- Google workspace
About this employer
We are a design led family that only stocks and sells our own unapologetically daft creations. From off-piste presents for your pop-culture-loving besties to the off-the-wall games that make everyone crease, we supply stupid, fun stuff for ANY occasion.
After this apprenticeship
Permanent role at the company.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SR APPRENTICESHIPS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343332.
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Closes in 27 days (Monday 20 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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