Apprentice - Healthcare

**UK Sales Development Apprenticeship**

Ecolab UK and Ireland is proud to be a Great Place to Work
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Ecolab is a trusted partner for millions of customers, and is a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life.

We have customers in more than 40 industries who choose Ecolab’s comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintaining clean and safe environments, and optimise water and energy use.

**What **does** **Sales at Ecolab** look like**?**

Ecolab are looking for people who share our four core values - safety, sustainability, integrity, and inclusion. Why? It’s important you feel you belong here. Right from the start, we want people of great character, who keep their promises and display a brilliant attitude to their teammates, prospects, and the wider Ecolab organisation. We look for smart people, who can understand others, communicate effectively, and get things done. The icing on the cake is the energy you bring to the team and the job.

You will engage with our future customers and work with your team to identify and engage with new opportunities for Ecolab to create a long-lasting customer relationships. An Ecolab Sales Professional is curious about business, organised, tenacious, and like to see the fruits of their efforts. Over your time, you will plan smart outreaches, and consult prospects on how their companies can best implement our solutions. Once you have reached a level of proficiency, you will have freedom in how you run your business.

In this role, you will have a positive attitude, be helpful and enterprising, by
- Collaborating with your manager and team to build further customer and industry intelligence
- Using social media channels to identify business opportunities
- Developing new innovative ideas for identifying potential customers
- Work with existing customer to establish and identify new and improved solutions
- Contribute and share process improvements

**The Apprentice Role**

During this experience, you'll be part of a wide apprentice community; spanning across the nation, and across a variety of business teams. You'll also have access to a broader group of people that will support you throughout to develop both personally & professionally.

As an apprentice, year one will be primarily focused on understanding the company and gaining the skills needed to do the job. Then you'll progressively transition into the Business Development Associate role while continuing with your sales apprenticeship.

These are some of the first-year activities you'll be part of:

- Learning your customer portfolio and be comfortable discussing it
- Get a 360 degree view of how large matrixed organisations run
- Support fellow Business Developers by creating investigative reports
- Conduct research into new business opportunities
- Gain industry knowledge to develop a point of view for customers
- Learn & develop skills that help you build and maintain customer relationships

**What are we looking for?**

Ecolab are looking to hire individuals that have a demonstrable desire towards continuous learning, resilience to overcome an obstacle with a positive attitude and a passion for understanding technology and selling.

Below are some of the requirements and skills we expect and require Sales Development Apprentices to demonstrate:

- Curiosity and drive to search for information, be able to summarise it and share your findings
- Go beyond the ask, to further understand in-depth topics that are relevant for the role
- Collaborates well as part of a team to solve problems in dynamic environments
- Proficient oral, written and presentation skills
- Ability to develop interpersonal relationships
- Displays initiative, self-motivation and deliver high-quality results
- Takes ownership in growing your career
- Passion for sales
- Computer literate
- Problem solver

**What’s** in it for you?**
- A clear and structured career path within our Sales organisation
- Opportunity to join our diverse internal employee networking groups
- Competitive salary starting at £22,000 upto £28,000 dependent on experience (London weighting will be applied where applicable)
- Performance bonus opportunity
- 25 days holiday plus 8 days Bank Holiday
- 4% Flexible Benefits. A wide range of benefits (extended to families) or to be used as salary increase
- Pension and 4 x annual salary Life Assurance benefits
- Opportunity to purchase company shares
- Company Car
- Company iPhone
- A long-term career within a business that recognises the talent to progress, inclusive of global opportunities
- Access to our Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

**Eligibility**
- Must have the right to work in the United Kingdom and been a resident in the UK/EU for at least 3 years
- GCSEs or equivalent with Math’s