Internal Sales Administrator Apprentice

CUDIS LIMITED

GREATER MANCHESTER (BL8 2AQ)

Closes in 11 days (Friday 17 July 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 6 July 2026


Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work towards a Customer Service Level 3 qualification. You will support Cudis Ltd exisitng customers, prospective customers and the external sales team to help to develop the growth of the business.

Training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Thursday, 8.00am - 4.15pm, with a 2.30pm finish on a Friday. 30 minutes lunch break.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 20 July 2026

Duration

1 year 3 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

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain good relations with customers to ensure that the company remains the preferred supplier
  • Respond in a timely manner to all telephone, email orders
  • Take incoming telephone calls and make outgoing telephone calls as required
  • Create customer accounts for all new customers
  • Provide detailed quotations and process customer orders and contracts
  • Use and update the order processing system and customer database effectively
  • Progress/despatch customer orders when required and ensure that customers and supervisor are kept informed of any delays that may occur
  • Liaise with Sales Managers, Agents, Production and Purchasing Departments to ensure the highest level of customer service
  • To update Internal Team Leader of any issues or concerns where necessary
  • Maintain a professional level of office administration regarding filing orders, quotes, customer records etc.
  • Meet agreed levels of performance and work to agreed key performance indicators
  • Show a willingness to learn and develop new skills

Where you'll work

UNIT 7
BRIDGE TRADING ESTATE BOLTON
BURY
GREATER MANCHESTER
BL8 2AQ

Training

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

Training provider

DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Training course

Customer service specialist (level 3)

Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
  • Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
  • Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
  • Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
  • Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
  • Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
  • Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
  • Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
  • Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
  • Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice

Training schedule

  • In addition to gaining practical experience in the role, you will also attain an NVQ Level 3 Customer Service qualification which will help start your career and give you an insight into the businesses processes and procedures
  • Our training is all completed remotely via teams with a development coach who will be available for support 24/7 and will arrange weekly/fortnightly meetings with you
  • You receive 20% off-the-job training during this apprenticeship which is included in your weekly working hours

More training information

  • DBC Training are a multi award-winning employment and skills training provider
  • We offer high-quality employer solutions to improve productivity and learner solutions to support individuals to fulfil their potential
  • https://dbc-training.co.uk/

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths & English (grade 4/C or above)

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
  • Customer care skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this employer

Founded in 2004, Cudis quickly established itself as a successful electrical designer, manufacturer & supplier of high quality electrical products to the domestic and commercial markets.

In August 2018 Cudis became a Limited company and as part of the company’s expansion plans, moved to a new state-of-the-art headquarters at Bury Bridge, Bury, Greater Manchester, doubling its distribution centre capacity and office accommodation for the Sales, Marketing, Finance & Technical teams.

https://cudis.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Great support from small team
  • 25 days holiday + 8 statutory public holidays
  • Benefit scheme via circular benefits
  • Extensive training

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

Lots of prospects for progression, for example: External sales, Internal sales Manager, Marketing Manager, Engineer and many more.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Catherine

cat@dbc-training.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038023.

Apply now

Closes in 11 days (Friday 17 July 2026 at 11:59pm)