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Business Administrator Apprenticeship
Xcel Aerospace are offering an interesting and varied role for an ambitious Business Administrator Apprentice to work in our sales department within our established aerospace manufacturing organisation.
Candidate should be a self-motivated individual, able to coordinate a number of tasks with the aim of achieving the best results.
Requirements
- Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade GCSE Grade 4 or above (A*-C))
- GCSE in: Maths (grade GCSE Grade 4 or above (A*-C))
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
- Skills
- Excellent organization skills
- Able to multitask
- Excellent communication skills
- Good team working skills
- Excellent IT skills
- Able to use Microsoft Office
- Excellent customer service
- Good attention to detail
- Flexible approach
- Candidate should have a good level of general education.
Responsibilities
- The role involves managing internal sales activity, order entry and providing customers with delivery updates.
- Managing customer order books, drawing up quotations to be sent to the customer and communicating with external and internal customers.
- Manage key accounts.
- Complete contract reviews for sales orders.
- Process and load sales order onto the system.
- Manage communication with customers to keep them apprised of delivery status/issues, etc.
- Communicating with production, engineering and quality depts to give customer feedback on any issues.
- Manage order books via the customer portals or spreadsheet and ensure they are up-to-date.
- Work with engineering to process and respond to sales enquiries.
- Build and maintain good relationships with customers.
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Benefits
- Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
- Course contents include skilled use of multiple IT packages and systems, producing accurate records and documents, exercising proactivity and good judgement, building positive relationships, demonstrating good communication skills, completing tasks to a high standard, taking responsibility for initiating and completing tasks, and using relevant project management principles.
- Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship (Standard). Skills, knowledge and behaviours.
- Day release to attend New City College at either Hackney campus (N1 6HQ) or Ardleigh Green, Hornchuch campus (RM11 2LL).
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship.
- Possibility of a full-time position upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, and depending upon the needs of the company at that time.
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About Xcel Aerospace
- With over 40 years experience, Xcel Aerospace is a leader in delivering manufacturing excellence within the global aerospace market.
- Our strong reputation as a world class supplier of manufactured aerospace components supports thousands of flight hours every year.
- We support customers to reduce supply chain risk by providing high quality components and assembly parts, on time, in full and at competitive prices.
- We support our customer to perform and grow and together we deliver excellence.
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