Trade Business Sales Apprentice

**Title: Trade Business Sales Apprenticeship**

**Location: Stoke on Trent ST4 6JQ (Etruria Way)**

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

**Company Description**:
Harding Electrical (part of Edmundson)

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 Trade Business Sales 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 on the computer system
- 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

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**: £12,600.00-£24,960.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Do you hold a driving license or are taking driving lessons?
- How will you travel to Unit 15 Etruria Trading Estate, Etruria Way and how long will it take you?

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Stoke on Trent ST4 6JQ