Sales Administration Apprentice

Overview

You will be responsible for assisting the Sales Team to provide an excellent sales administration service. You must make sure that you portray a positive image of the company at all times. You’ll need excellent organisational and communication skills together with a general understanding of the organisation, its business requirements and commercial objectives in order to provide the best possible service. You will work very closely with all the sales team employees and providing support for them.

Working hours

35 hours a week on a day shift pattern, 08.30 – 16.30 Monday to Thursday and 08.30 – 13.30 on Friday with 30 minutes for lunch Monday to Thursday. However, you must be flexible and work overtime when necessary to meet the business needs. Salary dependent on age and experience

Responsibilities

· General filing, including IXOS archiving.

· Frequently 5s your work area and always looks for continual improvement.

· Follow the training you received when using any work items given to you.

· Sales Order Entry

· Assist with IXOS archiving if required

· Allocation of Inventory as directed by sales team

· Issue sales orders to warehouse to ensure enough time to meet client delivery dates.

· Check order confirmations/acknowledgements and update SAP where required

· Processing of purchase orders on vendors and maintaining status logs

· Take reasonable care of your own and other people’s health and safety

· Co-operate with your employer on health and safety

· Tell someone (supervisor, or health and safety representative) if you think the work or inadequate precautions are putting anyone’s health and safety at serious risk

· Support the company with environmental initiatives and any compliance issues

Benefits

Early finish on a Friday

Use of the canteen and games stations

Performance related annual 10% bonus

Eye-care vouchers

Car parking

Free tea/coffee/fruit/milk

Qualifications

• GCSE English and Maths (Grade 4 or above) essential
• GCSE Science (Grade 4 or above) essential

Skills required

· Consistent solid business ethics and integrity

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

· The ability to work as part of a team and if necessary on your own initiative

· Outstanding organisational skills

· The ability to work under pressure

· The ability to work and deal with personnel from all levels

· Tact, and the ability to deal with difficult situations

· Excellent IT skills, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel

Your role will be mainly site based, although you may be travelling to visit other companies or to attend training, meetings and conferences.

After the apprenticeship - View to receive a contract at the end of a successful apprenticeship should there be a position available.

Training and support will be provided by our specialist Apprenticeship training provider, Smart Training & Recruitment.

In order to meet the eligibility criteria for an Apprenticeship in England, you must be able to demonstrate at least three years UK residency, or hold a valid visa that meets the exceptions to this rule.

Please note, as part of the Initial Assessment process, all qualifications will be verified by the Learning Records Service (LRS) via Department for Education

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £14,280.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 12/05/2025
Expected start date: 02/06/2025