Job Title: Inside Sales Apprentice
Location: We are recruiting for an Apprentice to join our Inside Sales team at our offices here in Pencoed, Bridgend.
Ready to help build a better future for generations to come?
In an ever-changing, fast paced world, we owe it to ourselves and our future generations to live life responsibly. At ROCKWOOL, we work relentlessly to enrich modern living through our innovative stone wool solutions.
Join us and make a difference!
Your Future Team:
As a part of the Inside Sales team, you will become and integral part to the commercial operation here at ROCKWOOL UK. With a supportive team that have an excellent track record of developing and nurturing talent, this is the perfect opportunity for an individual to start a career within a sales and commercial environment.
What you will be doing:
- Supporting the ROCKWOOL Commercial, Specification, HVAC, Fire and Merchant teams
- Effectively managing the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, project support forms, technical leads and self-generated project opportunities to identify sales opportunities
- Making planned and non-planned phone calls to warm leads, cold leads, prospective customers and the wider ROCKWOOL team to support the sales effort
- Accurately quoting and then following up with allocated Merchant accounts on your area
- Building relationships with your allocated accounts to drive further business
- Providing Area Sales Managers and Project Specification Managers with quality, qualified data to win business
- Reporting via the CRM system to the business in both a planned and reactive manner when required
- Distributing weekly project leads from builder’s conference etc to the key members of the business
- Be a key CRM operator and user.
What you bring:
- 5 GCSE’s grade C or higher (including Maths & English)
- Enthusiastic and energetic approach to work
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Competent utilising Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
- Proactive and positive attitude
- Ability to commute to the office daily
- Willingness to learn and develop
What we offer:
- Opportunity to gain an Academic Qualification
- Competitive Salary
- 30 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
- Company Pension Scheme (Aviva)
- Westfield Health Cashback Scheme
- Life Assurance X3 annual salary
- Enhanced Sick Pay Scheme
Who we are:
We are the world leader in stone wool solutions. Founded in 1937 in Denmark, we transform volcanic rock into safe, sustainable products that help people and communities thrive. We are a global company with more than 12,000 employees, located in 40+ countries with 51 manufacturing facilities… all focused on one common purpose – to release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living.
Sustainability is central to our business strategy. ROCKWOOL was one of the first companies to commit to actively contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) framework and are actively committed to 11 SDGs, including SDG 14, Life Below Water. Through our partnership with the One Ocean Foundation and in connection with our sponsorship of the Denmark SailGP team, we will help raise awareness around ocean health challenges in an effort to accelerate solutions to protect it.
Diverse and Inclusive Culture:
We want our people to feel valued, respected, included and heard. We employ 79 different nationalities worldwide and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees, promote diversity, and work against all forms of discrimination among ROCKWOOL employees.
At ROCKWOOL, you will experience a friendly team environment. Our culture is very important to us. In fact, we refer to our culture as “The ROCKWOOL Way”. This is the foundation in which we operate and is based upon our values of ambition, responsibility, integrity and efficiency.
Interested?
Would you also be proud to enrich society like we do? Click on the apply button above to join us improving modern living conditions for millions of people worldwide.
What We Do
We release the natural power of stone to enrich modern living.
ROCKWOOL Group is a focused industrial company with leading positions in insulation, acoustic ceilings and horticultural growing media based on proprietary stone wool technology. We harness the properties that nature has given us to create products for quality living.
Our products touch most aspects of everyday life. We offer carefully designed, innovative sustainable solutions for your comfort, safety and for the benefit of the environment.
ROCKWOOL Group's business portfolio consists of:
* ROCKWOOL® insulation solutions for buildings.
* ROCKWOOL® technical insulation solutions to both industry, marine and offshore.
* ROCKWOOL® core solutions tailor made stone wool products to be integrated into finished systems.
* Rockfon® acoustic ceilings and wall solutions.
* Rockpanel® cladding material.
* Grodan® growing media solutions for plants.
* Lapinus® solutions for applications such as friction, water management, tracks, coatings, gaskets.
At ROCKWOOL Group, we are committed to enriching the lives of everyone who experiences our product solutions. Our expertise is perfectly suited to tackle many of today’s biggest sustainability and development challenges, from energy consumption and noise pollution to fire resilience, water scarcity and flooding. Our range of products reflects the diversity of the world’s needs, supporting our stakeholders in reducing their own carbon footprint along the way.
Stone wool is a versatile material and forms the basis of all our businesses. With around 12,200 colleagues in 40 countries, we are the world leader in stone wool solutions, from building insulation to acoustic ceilings, external cladding systems to horticultural solutions, engineered fibres for industrial use to insulation for the process industry and marine & offshore
