Sales Executive Apprentice
TOTAL CARBON SAVINGS LTD
Salford (M5 3EB)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 24 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Sales training whilst studying for a level 4 qualification as a Sales Executive, leading to a permanent role in a fast paced sales environment
- Wage
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£15,000 a year
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Salary to increase when training is complete and permanent role is undertaken
- Training course
- Sales executive (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm or 10am to 6pm.
Exact shifts TBC
36 hours 45 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 27 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- qualifying incoming customer calls and returning missed calls from interested customers (warm leads)
- explaining to prospective customers, the process, what to expect and answer questions
- update documentation and internal CRM system
Where you'll work
Imperial Court
2 Exchange Quay
Salford
M5 3EB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
APPRENTIFY 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
- on the job training alongside regular online meetings and training sessions to progress the qualification
- time will be given to complete work alongside on the job experience
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
- any (grade A-D)
- any (grade A-D)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
Total Carbon Savings is an energy efficiency improvements and consultancy business. We install a range of improvements from heating upgrades, renewables and insulation. We provide consultancy services for other installation companies working within the retrofit industry working on funded schemes
http://www.totalcarbonsavings.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
on site Cafe, wellbeing centre (including gym), career progression
After this apprenticeship
- Progression to Sales Associate with a starting salary of £25k
- Progression to other roles within the business ranging from Sales to Marketing
- Other roles should these be of interest as we are rapidly expanding company
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TOTAL CARBON SAVINGS LTD
Sarah Dawson
info@totalcarbonsavings.co.uk
07712306138
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345312.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 24 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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