Sales Executive Apprentice

A N T TELECOMMUNICATIONS LTD

Bourne End (SL8 5AU)

Closes in 28 days (Friday 7 August 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 9 July 2026

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Summary

ANT Telecommunications Ltd is a growing company based in Buckinghamshire offering home working, car allowance, 25+ days holiday per year, sick pay and a generous pension scheme. We are an independent, fully owned Business-to-Business organisation operating for over 40 years, built on a reputation of great customer service to its customers.

Wage

£18,000 a year

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We reimburse your expenses when you are required to drive and visit our customers. Once you have completed the apprenticeship and progress into a fulltime sales role, we offer a generous benefits package.

Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 10 August 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

  • During the apprenticeship you will also work in other areas, e.g. with our marketing team to help provide qualified leads and opportunities
  • You will be working with existing customers and developing your own prospects so you can hit the ground running before you even finish your apprenticeship
  • You will learn from other members of our sales team

Where you'll work

5 The Courtyard
Furlong Road
Bourne End
SL8 5AU

Training

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

Training provider

ISALES ACADEMY 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 completion, you will achieve a Level 4 qualification in Sales Executive
  • Training will be hybrid between in-person in the office, and online, based on one day twice a month
  • The role is office-based

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

Travel to customer sites will be required. Therefore, the successful candidate must have a clean driving licence and access to their own vehicle.

About this employer

Positive, fair, Inclusive, friendly, family, open, flexible, and innovative are the key words suggested by the current employees when asked about the culture at ANT in our last employee survey. So, as well as taking care of our customers, we are proud to take care of our staff, which is why the majority of our staff have been with us for well over 15 years! We provide the latest telecoms and IoT technology that helps teams communicate and protects staff working alone in hazardous and isolated areas; or detects, manages and resolves safety critical alarms to avoid detrimental impact on service, people and the environment.

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

After this apprenticeship

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

  • We aim to provide you with the chance to develop your career in sales or sales support as well as other areas of the business if required
  • To progress into a sales support role or explore other pathways within the company

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ISALES ACADEMY LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041165.

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Closes in 28 days (Friday 7 August 2026 at 11:59pm)