Trade Supplier Apprentice

**Title: Trade Supplier Apprenticeship**

**Location: Sittingbourne ME10**

**Hours**:8:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday

**Company Description**:
**Regent Electrical (Electrical Wholesaler/Retail)**

The company ethos is based on providing outstanding customer service from quotation, order and delivery to exceptional after sales support to all customers irrespective of the value of the order.

We have the largest presence in Kent of any independent wholesaler and our buying power from being part of the FEGIME national buying group allows us to more than compete with our larger competitors.

We are stockists of all well known brands and have a customer base that includes Local Authorities, FM companies, local factories, schools, universities, as well as building and electrical companies of all sizes.

**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.

**Summary of the Apprenticeship Role**

As a Trade Supplier Apprentice, you will be working in all aspects of the business from stock control, customer service and sales. 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. After full training, responsibilities will include:

- Managing stock in and out
- Picking and Packing customer orders
- Liaising with customers on the trade counter
- Store transfers & stock control
- Completing the sales paperwork in the office
- Raising quotations
- Taking payments
- Sales calls to customers/suppliers
- Processing orders on the computer system
- Answering customer enquires

**Apprenticeship Training**

As an apprentice you will complete a Trade Supplier Level 2 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 Trade Supplier Level 2 Apprenticeship**
- Competence/Knowledge based qualification
- Functional Skills - Maths/ English (if required)
- End Point Assessment - Final Knowledge Test, Observation and Discussion

**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.
- 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

**Salary**: £10,982.40-£21,673.60 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- How will you travel to Risborough Lane, Sittingbourne ME10 and how long will it take you?

Work Location: In person