Sales & Marketing Apprentice

About the role

Job Title: Business Development & Growth Associate 🚀

Ready to dive into a dynamic role where your curiosity fuels business growth? 🤔 We're looking for a sharp, commercially-minded individual eager to learn about our clients, their challenges, and how our innovative solutions can make a real impact. You'll gain a deep understanding of our clients, our offerings, and the markets we rock, using this knowledge to spot new opportunities, champion our solutions, and contribute to our expansion. 📈

What You'll Be Doing:

Business Development & Sales 🤝

• Uncover new clients, markets, and business prospects by researching target sectors, companies, and key decision-makers. 🧐
• Help identify, qualify, and track new sales opportunities, ensuring we're always on top of follow-up actions.
• Coordinate and support client demos, eventually leading them with guidance from our senior crew. 🎤
• Assist in managing and tracking our Social Value commitments. ✅

Market & Competitor Intel 🌐

• Stay ahead of the game with regular competitor analysis – we're talking products, services, pricing, and strategies. 🔍
• Keep your finger on the pulse of industry trends and developments in the sectors PPL operates in.
• Pinpoint emerging customer needs and potential growth areas for PPL.
• Help us figure out what makes PPL stand out from the competition. ✨

Sales Collateral Creation ✍️

• Keep our sales presentations, brochures, case studies, and other materials sharp, relevant, and totally up-to-date.
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to craft compelling case studies that showcase the awesome impact and value of PPL's solutions.
• Gather client feedback, success stories, and outcomes to power our sales and marketing efforts.
• Contribute to developing new sales materials as our products, services, and markets evolve.

Marketing & Social Media Buzz 📱

• Partner with the Business Development Team to crush PPL's social media strategy.
• Plan, create, and publish engaging content across our social channels that sparks conversations.
• Monitor social media performance, providing insights on engagement and areas for epic improvement.
• Support our operational teams in creating PPL Newsletters. 📰

Tenders & Proposals Power 💪

• Help colleagues identify and track relevant tender opportunities.
• Jump in to assist with writing and submitting tenders and proposals.
• Research prospective organizations and their needs to strengthen our tender responses.
• Maintain an organized database of tender opportunities, deadlines, and submissions.
• Keep our tender resource bank fresh with the latest data, stats, and content. 📂

Events & Networking Experiences 🎉

• Research exciting conferences, awards, exhibitions, networking events, and industry gatherings.
• Support the planning and coordination of PPL's sales and business development events.
• Help manage event logistics, invitations, communications, and follow-up.
• Be part of the team at events, actively seeking opportunities to build new connections. 🤝

Client & Product Mastery 💡

• Develop a rock-solid understanding of PPL's products, services, and what makes us unique.
• Gain the confidence to articulate exactly how PPL's solutions help clients smash their goals.

Key responsibilities

• Research and identify new clients, markets, and business opportunities.
• Support the identification, qualification, and progression tracking of sales opportunities and client demonstrations.
• Plan, create, and publish engaging content across social media channels and support sales collateral development.
• Assist with the preparation, writing, and submission of tenders and proposals.
• Support the planning, coordination, and management of business development events.