Sales Executive Apprentice

THE POWER INDEX LIMITED

Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE1 3DY)

Closes in 4 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 6 October 2025

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Summary

This is an exciting and award-filled opportunity for an apprentice to join The Power Index Limited as a sales executive. Initially, the role will consist of telesales outbound business-to-business appointment making, working on behalf of large clients within the merchant services industry and the also the business energy industry.

Wage

£18,500 a year

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This role also has an uncapped bonus scheme which is paid alongside the basic salary.

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday 10am-4pm.

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 20 October 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

  • Outbound telesales, appointment making
  • Learning new sales skills continously to advance within the role
  • Working in an office, target driven sales environment

Where you'll work

116 Quayside
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 3DY

Training

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

Training provider

ZENITH PEOPLE 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 provided at work office location.

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
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience

About this employer

The Power Index Limited is a business consultancy, we work alongside large clients in the merchant services and business energy sectors.

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Company benefits

Career Progression, extra bonus schemes.

After this apprenticeship

  • The expected career progression after this apprenticeship is to become a multi skilled sales executive who could work on behalf of large, worldwide companies on a vast array of marketing campaigns.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE POWER INDEX LIMITED

Daniel Young

daniel.young@thepowerindex.co.uk

07300428511

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345155.

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Closes in 4 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)

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