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Apprenticeship - Sales Administrator

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Job Introduction

We are recruiting an Apprentice Sales Administrator to be based at our Canterbury site. This is an exciting opportunity if you are looking to develop your career. The role will include but not limited to, providing clients with a motivating and exemplary sales experience and utilising all elements of the sales engine to ensure you are delivering a high performing sales culture. This includes understanding and living our sales values and competencies and following company standards of performance.

Our heritage is built on catering and hospitality experience and fuelled by our passion for exceptional food and service. For over 40 years we have been providing bespoke catering and hospitality services for sports stadia, racecourses, visitor, attractions, historic venues, major events and premium airline lounges. Recognised across the globe for hospitality, we help create exceptional moments at extraordinary events such as Royal Ascot, Tour de France and RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

For more information on the company see Careers in Sports and Leisure

 

Role Responsibility

  • To exceed targets by providing clients with a motivating and exemplary sales experience
  • To produce accurate communication ensuring departments and customers are kept updated in a timely manner for effective service delivery
  • To produce written confirmations and quotations for clients
  • Develop and maintain excellent product knowledge and use it to deliver the benefits of the product to the client
  • Identify customer needs and provide solutions to match them
  • Actively convert enquiries into contracted business
  • Respond positively to sales opportunities to maximise revenue
  • Develop productive working relationships across the venue.
  • To consistently review own level of skill and actively identify further personal development requirements with your line Manager

The Ideal Candidate

  • Able to develop positive working relationships at all levels.
  • Able to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing.
  • Experience using Outlook, Microsoft word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel
  • Able to act on own initiative.

Package Description

£9,000 per annum + benefits

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

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