Sales Executive Apprentice - Level 4
SAEPIO SOLUTIONS LIMITED
HIGH WYCOMBE (HP12 3RH)
Closes on Monday 26 October 2026
Posted on 24 August 2026
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Summary
Start your sales career with a Level 4 Sales Executive Apprenticeship. Gain hands-on experience across the full sales cycle, learn from experienced professionals and build valuable commercial skills. If you're ambitious, motivated and enjoy working with people, this is your opportunity to learn, grow and build a career in sales.
- Wage
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£14,560 to £23,132.20, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Sales executive (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9 am-5 pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 November 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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
- Support the sales team in identifying and developing new business opportunities, including researching prospects and engaging with potential clients.
- Manage and develop relationships with prospective and existing customers, providing a professional and positive customer experience.
- Assist with the full sales process, from initial outreach and qualification through to proposals, meetings, negotiations and closing opportunities.
- Conduct research into prospects, industries and market opportunities to identify potential areas for growth.
- Work with internal teams to understand client requirements and help develop appropriate solutions and proposals.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date information within our CRM system, ensuring sales activity, opportunities and customer information are recorded effectively.
- Take part in sales meetings, calls and presentations while developing your confidence in communicating with customers and stakeholders.
- Work towards your Level 4 Sales Executive apprenticeship, applying your learning directly to your day-to-day role.
Where you'll work
5 & 6 ANGLO BUSINESS PARK
FIRST FLOOR
LINCOLN ROAD
HIGH WYCOMBE
HP12 3RH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BMS PROGRESS LLP
Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
Other requirements
- Passing background checks
- in the office in High Wycombe 4 days a week
About this employer
Cyber security isn’t an add-on to IT. It’s a specialist discipline.
That’s why modern UK organisations separate the teams who run systems from those who protect them. And it’s why they choose Saepio.
We’re one of the UK’s most recognised cyber specialists and an NCSC Assured Service Provider, working with over 1,000 organisations who trust us to help them:
Cut through noise and see their real risk
Align policy, people and technology into one coherent strategy
Mature security operations without adding unnecessary complexity
Build cyber resilience that stands up to real-world pressure
We partner with the most advanced security platforms in the market and deliver high-impact events, campaigns and thought leadership that place Saepio at the centre of the UK cyber conversation.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Career progression would be into the sales team to become an account executive.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SAEPIO SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Chantelle Brinicombe
cbrinicombe@saepio.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049661.
Apply now
Closes on Monday 26 October 2026
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