1. **Industry leading graduate sales opportunity with Edmundson Electrical**
2. **£30,000 basic salary + lucrative profit share scheme**
3. **No experience needed, fantastic opportunity to start your career**
4. **12 months rotation through various departments to give you full exposure to the business**
5. **Great career progression opportunities**
**The Company**
Edmundson Electrical are the UK's leading distributor of branded electrical equipment to trade and industry, selling over 120,000 product lines and employing over 4000 staff across 400 locations throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.
A fast-growing company with a long history of training and developing people in both sales and managerial roles, Edmundson are now seeking to continue their success by adding entry level talent into their teams.
**The Role**
Edmundson Electrical are looking to recruit, train and develop ambitious graduates to be based out of any of their 400 independently run profit centres across the UK.
As a Graduate Sales Trainee at Edmundson, you will be educated on both the company, their products and the market they sell into. Receiving continuous 'on the job' training, the graduate will also have the opportunity to receive professional sales training to equip them with all the tools and skills needed to flourish in a successful sales career.
***Progression opportunities into External Sales and then potentially Profit Centre Management in the future.***
6. **Obtain a comprehensive knowledge of the business as you spend time training within different functions**
7. **Develop into an external, customer facing sales role after around 12 months**
8. **Identify and develop new business opportunities from new customers and dormant/lapsed accounts**
9. **Gain thorough product knowledge to be competent and effective when dealing with customers and promoting the benefits of using Edmundson Electrical as a supplier of choice**
10. **Chase down leads, influence, negotiate and generate sales over the phone and in person**
**As a Graduate Commercial Trainee, the package you will receive is:**
11. £30,000 basic salary
12. Eligibility for lucrative company profit share scheme
13. Incentivised learning (bonus opportunity upon completion of training)
14. 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
15. Extensive professional sales training - fully funded and accredited
16. Auto-enrolment into the Company's contributory pension scheme
**Requirements for this role:**
17. Fantastic verbal and written communication Skills
18. Full, clean UK driving license
19. Strong work ethic and a team player who can also work well on their own initiative
20. This role requires you to work an occasional Saturday morning as the business trades 6 days a week
21. You have finished studying and are ready for an immediate start
All applications are going to be managed directly by BMS Performance, market leaders in graduate recruitment.