Volta Ventures
Graduate Sales & Marketing Trainee
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Graduate Sales & Marketing Trainee
Who we are
Volta Ventures is a sales and marketing company working in the telecoms sector. We run face-to-face sales campaigns for major telecoms brands — live events and in-store activations — real conversations with real customers, not a desk-bound marketing role.
We're based in Birmingham city centre — a short walk from New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill, and an easy commute from right across the West Midlands.
The Role
This is a graduate-calibre trainee role with a sales-first start and real marketing exposure built in.
You'll begin by driving face-to-face customer acquisition for major telecoms brands — this is direct sales, done properly, and it's the fastest way to actually understand a brand's market rather than reading about it. Alongside that, you'll get hands-on exposure to how a campaign is planned and positioned: what makes an offer land, how a brand presents itself at point of contact, and how performance is read and adjusted. It's how every manager here started, including the people running our biggest campaigns today.
As you progress, you'll move into running campaigns yourself: hiring and training staff, owning targets, and eventually leading a team across multiple sites.
What You'll Be Doing
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- Driving face-to-face sales and customer acquisition for major telecoms brands — this is the core of the role, not an occasional task
- Learning and applying core sales technique — objection handling, negotiation, closing
- Getting exposure to campaign planning and brand positioning alongside the sales work
- Recruiting, onboarding and training new sales staff as you progress
- Owning sales targets and reporting on campaign performance
- Coaching and developing team members on site
What We're Looking For
We care far more about attitude than your degree subject. You'll do well here if you're:
- Competitive — you want a target and you want to beat it
- A natural communicator — comfortable opening a conversation with someone you've never met, in person
- Commercially curious — you want to understand why a sale works, not just make it
- Organised — you can run several things at once without dropping any of them
- Ambitious — you want a path toward leading a team, not just doing a job
Any degree background welcome. No previous work experience needed — full training provided in both sales technique and campaign fundamentals.
What You Get
- Structured sales and management development programme, with a clear route from graduate trainee to leading campaigns and teams
- Base salary plus uncapped commission — a guaranteed foundation, with earnings rising in line with what you deliver
- Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm, with extra hours available if you want to earn more
- International and domestic travel opportunities
- Networking events, team socials and Rising Stars recognition for top performers
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Life at Volta Ventures
We work hard and we celebrate it. Every day looks different because every campaign is different, and we make a point of recognising the people driving results. This suits graduates who want to learn sales properly, from the ground up, and be out talking to people rather than sitting behind a screen — if that's you, apply.
Where You'd Be Based
Our office is in Birmingham city centre, minutes from New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill and well served by bus and tram. We regularly hire from Solihull, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall, Dudley, West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield and further out across the West Midlands and Staffordshire.
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