Trade Sales Apprentice

**Job description**

**Title: Trade Supplier Apprenticeship (Warehouse & Sales)**

**Location: Stockport SK5 Salary : £7.55 - £12.21 per hour**

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

**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.

**Company Description**:
ABM Electrical

ABM Electrical Wholesale Ltd is an independent and family run, local wholesaler in Stockport. Our focus has always been to have a happy working environment. We also wish to offer a bespoke wholesale service to all of our clients. This unique service is what has helped us to become a thriving business over the last sixteen years. The Ashworth family has been running ABM for two generations, bringing great stability to the business. Our team of fourteen comprises of dedicated sales and administrative staff. What’s more, we have recently started to develop a new generation of staff members via the EDA Apprenticeship Plus training programme.

**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.

**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

**Job Types**: Full-time, Apprenticeship

Pay: £15,704.00-£25,396.80 per year

Application question(s):

- Do you drive or are you taking lessons?
- How will you travel to Gregory Way, Stockport and how long will it take you?
- What interests about this apprenticeship and role?

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Stockport