Business Administration Apprentice

**Title: Business Admin Apprenticeship**

**Location: Bootle L30**

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

**Company Description**:
**Stearn Electric**

Stearn is a company with a fine history - Founded in 1924, the company has grown over the years into a well-established National Super Distributor, serving the Electrical Industry with its outstanding reputation for good service and excellent customer relations - a reputation that is protected vigorously through the professionalism of our dedicated and well trained staff.

**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 Admin Apprentice, you will be playing a pivotal role working alongside and in support of a team of design/sales engineers. The role will involve speaking to suppliers, customers and being involved in the sourcing and collation of information to allow the efficient production of customer proposals. Liaising with other departments to ensure the smooth handover of information to ensure tasks are computed and handled in a seamless manner. 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:

- Raising quotations
- Supporting engineers with technical information
- Quantifying drawings to tender projects
- Calling customers and suppliers
- Collating information from various parties to assist bid processing
- Answering the phone
- Photocopying
- Filing

**Apprenticeship Training**

As an apprentice you will complete a Business 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 Admin Level 3 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
- Computer and IT literate

**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: £13,312.00-£23,795.20 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Application question(s):

- What interests you most about this apprenticeship?
- Do you drive or are you taking lessons?
- How will you travel to Sefton Business Park, and how long will it take you?

Work Location: In person