Apprentice Sales Executive

Apprenticeships New Anglia

Norwich (NR10 5NT)

Closes in 20 days (Wednesday 31 December 2025)

Posted on 2 December 2025

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Summary

Are you out-going with a big personality and hungry for success?We are looking for an Apprentice Sales Executive to work within our small but busy team for a national brand.

• Wage:

  £15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age

  National Minimum Wage

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  Wages will increase with experience and after sucsessful performance reviews. competative salery on completion.

• Training course: Sales executive (level 4)
• Hours: Monday to Friday, standard office hours, 08:30 - 17:00.

  40 hours a week

• Start date:

  Monday 5 January 2026

• 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

Working within a dedicated sales team on things like:

• Meeting with potential re-sellers
• Demonstrating products in person and via video link
• Calling potential customers
• Advising on products
• Representing the business at exhibitions
• Producing social media content

Working closley with other departments on Marketing / sales strategies and targets. assisting with event planning. 

Where you'll work

Pinewood Farm
Shortthorn Road, Stratton Strawless
Norwich
NR10 5NT

Training

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

Training provider

HIT TRAINING 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

The apprenticeship is an on-site delivery and will consit of 80% working and 20% off the job learning.

More training information

All learning will be delivered on-site, at work, through remote delivery and in person meetings. 

The apprentice will gather evidence, as they work, to meet the assement criteria and build a portfolio over the duration. 

The course will conclude with an End Point Assesment. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade 4)
• Maths (grade 4)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

a relatable subject (grade pass)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• outgoing large personality
• Strong work ethic
• confidence

Other requirements

UK Licence required and own vehicle. Natural people person - someone who can chat to anyone and everyone of all ages and backgrounds! You might be calling a kitchen designer on the phone who's never heard of the brand, you could be catching up with a showroom whose sales might be taking off - or slowing down - giving a video demo, or you might be delivering a demo in person. Bubbly, vivacious, fun, confident personality. Quick and eager to learn. You'll be supporting and learning from a very personable member of our sales team - calling on the telephone, visiting showrooms, working on an exhibition stand. Natural instinct for selling, you'll always want to get that sale - you'll have a competitive element to your personality that makes you want to win that sale. Excellent written and spoken English. Appreciation for how the sales team can use social media to support their efforts. You won't mind seizing opportunities to get photos, stories and other content that could be used for our social channels - e.g. when you visit a showroom.

About this employer

Training & Apprenticeships in Construction Ltd (TrAC) is a DfE approved Flexi Job Apprenticeship Agency who will employ you for the duration of the apprenticeship and pay your salary. You should be aware that you will be placed with a host employer but you will not be employed by them. Your placement may change during the course of your apprenticeship but TrAC will employ you throughout, as well as continuing to support you into employment or further learning at the end of your apprenticeship.

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Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

• Employment as a Sales Executive available 
• Possible Higher Education

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HIT TRAINING LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003376.

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Closes in 20 days (Wednesday 31 December 2025)

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