Job description
Job description
Title: Business Sales and Admin Apprenticeship
** please note that the questions supplied with this advert must be answered in order to progress your application**
Location: Ealing W13
Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday
Company Description:
Bennett & Fountain - part of Edmundson Electrical
Edmundson Electrical Ltd is a privately held electrical distribution company headquartered in Knutsford, Cheshire, incorporated in 1991. It is the largest electrical distributor in the United Kingdom and serves both to the trade and to the public from over 300 locations
What is an Electrical Wholesaler?
Electrical wholesalers sell the products we all use in our homes, businesses, entertainment venues, cafes that give us access to electricity – from lighting our homes through to floodlighting a football match, from recharging a mobile phone to recharging an electric vehicle. The products you will be working with are used in domestic, industrial, and commercial settings, and are installed by contractors and electricians.
Summary of the Apprenticeship Role
As a Business Sales Apprentice, you will be working in Sales and Admininstration in our Sales office. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone like you to start your career in the Electrical Wholesale sector.
We are looking for a highly motivated apprentice to join our busy branch. The ideal candidate will already have some sales or admin experience so please include this in your application.
After full training, responsibilities will include:
- Liaising with customers on the trade counter
- Store transfers & stock control
- Completing the sales paperwork in the office
- Raising quotations on the computer system
- Taking payments
- Sales calls to customers/suppliers
- Answering calls/ Data input
- Processing orders on the computer system
- Answering customer enquires
Apprenticeship Training
As an apprentice you will complete a Business Admin Level 3 qualification with a national Training Provider. Your apprenticeship Training will focus on your job, is completed at the workplace, and you will be allocated a tutor and a study session in your working week.
Components of the Business Administration Level 3 Apprenticeship
· Competence/Knowledge based qualification
· Functional Skills – Maths/ English (if required)
· End Point Assessment – Final Knowledge Test, Observation and Project
Skills and Qualities we are looking for
- Confident when speaking to people on the telephone and face to face
- Can work well in a team
- Good communicator
- Excellent Maths and English skills (GCSE Grade A-C/9- 4)
- Hardworking individual who is self-motivated
- A positive approach
- Efficient
- Flexible
- Ambitious and keen to work and learn
Benefits
· Training and support to gain your nationally recognised and accredited qualification
· Excellent pay rate
· Access to further inhouse training
· Career progression in the company
Once you have successfully completed your apprenticeship, and all being well, there will be a full-time role with the company. From there you could progress to other job roles such as external sales, team leader, assistant manager and even Branch Manager.
How to apply and what we need from you
· A full CV detailing all your experience as well all school grades and any other further education grades
· Questions that are supplied need to be answered in as much detail as possible
· You will need to be contactable via phone and Indeed Message during the first week of your application as we will contact each candidate to check if they are still available.
If you need more information please send Louise a direct message via indeed or call.
Louise Sugars 07721239906 EDA apprenticeships
Job Types: Full-time, Apprenticeship
Salary: £11,400.00-£22,750.00 per year
Benefits:
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Application question(s):
- How will you travel to Argyle Road, Ealing W13 and how long will it take you?
- Please explain your previous Sale or Admin experience?
- Are you confident speaking to customer on the phone and face to face?
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: Ealing W13