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Apprentice Vehicle Sales Executive
Launch your career with Arthurs Motor Group as an Apprentice Vehicle Sales Executive, gaining hands-on experience and a Level 4 Sales Executive qualification. Perfect for a motivated, customer-focused individual looking to build a successful career in sales.
Wage: £16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age. National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices.
Training course: Sales executive (level 4)
Hours: Tuesday- Saturday, 8.30am- 5.30pm, 1 hour lunch break. 40 hours a week
Start date: Monday 21 September 2026
Duration: 1 year 3 months
Positions available: 1
What you'll do at work
- Support and assist in demonstrating new and used cars to prospective clients and partners
- Participate in vehicle demonstrations across a variety of makes & models across our showrooms, including Peugeot, Vauxhall and Ford
- Assist in developing the business across new and used car sales
- Identify and help develop new business opportunities through self-generated leads under guidance
- Contribute to maintaining a strong sales pipeline with regular updates and progress tracking
- Organise your own diary with support, planning meetings, demonstrations, and follow-ups
- Work towards meeting agreed sales targets and performance metrics
- Build and maintain professional relationships with clients to support repeat and referral business
- Provide market insights and feedback to support ongoing business strategy
- Greeting customers in person, by phone or online, and responding to enquiries about vehicle sales, bookings and services
- Coordinating appointments, service bookings and handovers, working closely with sales, service and parts teams
- Supporting the Administration teams with administrative tasks such as paperwork, invoices and documentation
- Following up with customers to check satisfaction, resolve issues and ensure a high standard of service
- Contributing ideas in team discussions to improve customer experience and daily operations
Where you'll work
LOWER BROOK STREET
OSWESTRY
SY11 2HJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SBC TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Sales executive (level 4)
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Course contents
- Sales planning and preparation: Set effective targets using sales forecasts. Prioritise customers and activities to grow account value and maximise return-on-investment in line with your organisation’s strategy. Formulate or refine customer plans and objectives. Create efficient territory plans where appropriate.
- Customer engagement: Effectively communicate and interpret customer information exchanged through written, verbal and non-verbal communication. Develop a customer engagement style that effectively opens sales conversations, builds rapport, enhances customer relationships, and adapts to different customer’s social preferences.
- Customer needs analysis: Be highly skilled at effective questioning and active listening techniques to understand the customer’s needs, guide the sales conversation appropriately, create mutual understanding, and build trust and affinity with customers.
- Propose and present solutions: Develop sales proposals and deliver them using a presentation style and technique appropriate for your customer. Present relevant products and/or services, explain features and their advantages, and clearly articulate the value and benefit of the solution for the specific customer. Use and adapt a range of techniques to draw-out and overcome common sales objections.
- Negotiate: Research the customer’s likely desired outcomes and negotiating stance. Develop responses to likely objections. Identify your own organisation’s needs, such as minimum price and acceptable terms. Negotiate or trade variables effectively.
- Closing Sales: Be attuned to verbal and non-verbal buying-signals and move to close at an appropriate point in sales conversations. Develop ethical techniques to close sales and confirm customers’ purchase agreement.
- Gathering Intelligence: Collect, analyse and interpret market intelligence and share it appropriately and effectively within your organisation.
- Time Management: Use and adapt appropriate tools and techniques to prioritise and manage your time effectively.
- Collaboration and team work: Contribute effectively within a team environment. Work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders. Manage communications with the cross-functional team in relation to the effective delivery of your sales, such as finance and service delivery. Support continual business improvement by sharing best practice with sales team colleagues and assist the marketing team to develop new marketing collateral.
- Customer experience management: Deliver a positive customer experience. Manage customer enquiries and issues effectively. Take proactive action to prevent and minimise customer concerns and complaints. Handle all customer interactions professionally to the customer’s satisfaction.
- Digital skills: Effectively use digital tools to conduct research and target customers in line with the overall sales strategy. Able to deliver presentations and meetings using digital communication. Complete accurate records and process sales in accordance with your organisation’s policies, procedures and digital CRM systems.
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Training schedule
This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Mathematics (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Adaptable
Other requirements
Applicants must hold a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to travel between our sites as required. A flexible approach to commuting across locations is essential.
About this employer
Arthurs Motor Group is a long-established, family-owned dealership proudly serving Newtown (Powys), Oswestry (Shropshire), and Wrexham (North Wales). Since acquiring the business in 1979, the current owners have built a reputation for exceptional customer service, deep automotive expertise, and enduring community relationships.
Company benefits
Arthurs Motor Group puts customers and staff first, offering expert support, career development, structured apprenticeship, salary reviews, 22 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, pension scheme, and a supportive, inclusive workplace.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Full-time role for right applicant
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