Digital Energy Business Development Apprentice
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC LIMITED
London (SW15 1NX)
Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
Posted on 4 February 2026
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Summary
As a Business Development Apprentice, you'll combine learning with real-world impact, helping shape innovative solutions that meet client needs. Your mission is to contribute fresh ideas, analyse market trends, and support initiatives that expand our reach and deliver value.
- Wage
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£23,000 a year
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Performance Bonus Scheme 28 days annual leave + public holidays Employee shopping & dining discounts Flexible working opportunities Pension scheme Holiday buy scheme Various health and wellbeing support options
- Training course
- Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday. Hours to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- 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
- Actively promote applicable Schneider Electric Digital Energy offers with selected customer base, gaining orders, specification and standardisation throughout the supply chain
- Working with internal colleagues in all Sales, Marketing, Technical and Techno-commercial Teams to ensure effective cross-entity, regional, national and international collaboration
- Provide all relevant, accurate information and reporting in a timely manner as required by the line manager and provide feedback to marketing
- Actively monitor the actions of competitors and provide relevant intel to EcoXpert partners that can support their growth
- Manage and keep record of competencies and ensure regular check-ins are conducted to ensure any skill gaps are actioned
- Work with the Digital Buildings line of business to ensure top VIP accounts are serviced and prioritised accordingly
- Ensure the customer and community are kept up to date with Schneider product releases and new innovations
Where you'll work
Cardinal Place
London
SW15 1NX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
Training course
Business to business sales professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Working with others: Influential, able to conduct stakeholder analysis and develop strong relationships at all levels, internally and externally, to build trust. Interacts professionally and ethically maintaining a positive and flexible attitude. Demonstrates emotional intelligence.
- Consultative Selling: Works with customers to identify new business and market challenges, utilising insights and good questioning and listening techniques. Identifies strategic & innovative solutions integrating products and excellent service solutions, to meet customer needs.
- Pitching: Leads a confident, clear and compelling sales pitch in front of a customer, which builds rapport, establishes credibility and delivers commercial benefit. Handles questions, objections and demonstrates the value of the proposal in a clear, quantifiable way.
- Negotiation and Closing: Applies the principles of negotiation, develops strategies and tactics to a mutually agreeable outcome, ensuring both customer and supplier leave committed to the outcome.
- Psychology of Sales: Critically reflects on the different psychological needs of customers and other key stakeholders in the buying/selling process. Takes into account strategic and organisational context when adapting their sales approaches, by using the psychological models pertinent to developing positive and ethical buyer and seller relationships.
- Leveraging Digital Business: Adopts different approaches to social selling & digital technologies which aid the sales process. Develops a digital selling strategy that leverages social selling to support lead generation, nurturing and customer engagement. Develops digital networks and drives insight-led engagements. Measures results and return on investment.
Training schedule
During your apprenticeship, you will receive two different types of training.
‘On-the-job’ training will be delivered by Schneider Electric, as your employer. You’ll receive training and supervision to help you perform the job you’ve been hired to do. This will include skills and knowledge that fall outside of the apprenticeship but are needed for the job role. As well as providing ‘on-the-job’ training, it is important that we support you in additional ways to ensure your success.
Types of support will include:
- A comprehensive induction
- Mentoring or regular one-to-one guidance
- Social enrichment and networking opportunities
- Performance reviews
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Feedback opportunities
‘Off-the-job’ training is delivered by one of our carefully selected Training Providers during your normal working hours. You will spend at least 20% (average 6 hours per week) of your working hours completing ‘off-the-job’ training. This is protected time and is a requirement for apprenticeship delivery. This training will teach you the knowledge, skills, and behaviours set out in the apprenticeship standard so you can achieve occupational competence.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Other requirements
You must not have a degree in a similar subject. Due to UK government apprenticeship funding rules, you must have lived in the UK for at least 3 years and have permission from the UK government to live in the UK (not for educational purposes) or have obtained pre-settled or settled status.
About this employer
Schneider’s purpose is to create impact by empowering everyone to make the most of their energy and resources, bridging progress with sustainability. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be the trusted partner in sustainability and efficiency. As a global leader in industrial technology, Schneider provides integrated solutions that help businesses grow, using digital tools to improve efficiency and create value for our customers. With over 150,000 employees and more than a million partners in over 100 countries, we stay close to our customers and communities. Schneider embraces diversity and inclusion, guided by our purpose of building a sustainable future for all.
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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
- After successful completion of your apprenticeship, you'll have the opportunity to potentially move into a permanent position
- Your learning doesn't stop there! Learn every day, to stop learning is to stop growing. We are genuinely curious, never done with learning. With Schneider, there is no such thing as knowing it all or having all the answers. We believe in life-long learning
- Every minute of the day brings a new chance to listen, open up our minds, and widen our horizons. We are never too experienced to learn
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000013130.
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Closes on Friday 27 March 2026
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