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Business Administration Apprentice

Employer
Sussex Skills Solutions
Location
Hailsham, East Sussex
Salary
£148.75 per week
Closing date
27 Aug 2019

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Job Details

Your duties will include:

Learning all aspects of running a business and building customer relationships to support the development of the business and:

  • Be the main point of contact with customers and anyone who contacts the company
  • Deliver excellent customer service to our customers and develop professional working relationships to maintain customers
  • To learn how to keep the books and ensure invoices to clients are paid in order to secure the company's income
  • To maintain office systems and organise any new systems
  • To receive and handle enquiries that come from the website
  • Add content to the website and social media site
  • To learn how to prepare costings on spreadsheets
  • To learn how to develop the website to grow sales of new products 

Desired skills  

  • Good written and spoken English
  • Good IT skills
  • Confident telephone manner  

Personal qualities  

  • Be prepared to work in a dusty wood-working workshop
  • Be reliable and committed to the role
  • Have a mature and professional attitude to work
  • Be flexible and able to change priorities quickly
  • Have an interest in wood and wood products
  • Well organised and systematic in your approach
  • Interested in how the internet can help a business
  • Prepared to take responsibility and willing to learn all the aspects of running a business
  • Able to be confident when using the telephone
  • Willing to take pride in a job well done
  • Willing to learn how to offer excellent customer service  

Desired qualifications  

GCSE (or equivalent) English, Maths, and ICT.

Future prospects  

The career goal here is to be able to run and manage all aspects of the sales office. For the right candidate they will very quickly have a considerable degree of autonomy and responsibility.

Things to consider  

The company is based in an industrial unit on a farm and the office is on the first floor above the main workshop building. The workshop is a typical joinery workshop, so dressing down is very much the order of the day.

For more information on the ANMW, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Company

Bringing an innovative approach to the delivery of apprenticeships and employer-focused skills training in the South East, East Sussex College Group is a joint venture between Sussex Downs College and Sussex Coast College Hastings.

East Sussex College Group is an apprenticeship and skills training specialist serving the whole of Sussex.

Did you know?

East Sussex College Group is a working partnership between Sussex Coast College Hastings and Sussex Downs College, and since launching, has worked with a number of businesses in the South East to help them utilise funding streams and create their own internal training programmes.

Plus, by drawing on decades of experience and expertise from staff at both colleges, East Sussex College Group is able to successfully match the right apprentice in a role that is right for the business and the individual.

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If you would like to find out more about how East Sussex College Group can help you, please get in touch on 030 300 39777, info@sussexskillssolutions.co.uk or at: www.sussexskillssolutions.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Company info
Telephone
030 300 39871
Location
ECAT House
Cross Levels Way
Eastbourne
BN21 2UF
GB

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