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Trainee Advertising Sales Executive

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Trainee Advertising Sales Executive

📍 Exeter, Devon
£30,000 per annum
£30000 - £35000/annum
Industry: Sales
Posted: 11-11-2026
Company: Webrecruit Ltd
Type: Permanent
Reference: 225824030

Job Description:

Trainee Advertising Sales Executive

Hybrid working, up to 3 days per week in the Exeter office

About Us

Webrecruit helps organisations across the UK attract and recruit talent through a combination of recruitment advertising services, applicant tracking technology and careers site solutions. Working with organisations across the private, public, higher education and not-for-profit sectors, we combine recruitment advertising expertise with technology to help employers improve how they attract and manage candidates.

We're expanding our sales team and have an exciting opening for a Trainee Advertising Sales Executive to join us on full-time, permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.

The Benefits

- £30,000 - £35,000 base salary

- Commission scheme with uncapped earning potential

- Pension scheme

- Up to 25 days' holiday + public holidays

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious sales professional to gain new skills and take their career in a new direction with our growing, established company.

You'll have the chance to develop in-depth recruitment sales experience within our supportive environment. With backing from multiple teams, you'll be enabled to make a real success of your new role, building on your existing sales skills and gaining specialist knowledge and experience.

What's more, you'll enjoy a superb rewards package, with a competitive base rate, complimented by uncapped commission that gives you the potential to increase your earnings as you progress. Combined with hybrid working, you'll have the flexibility to balance your career ambitions with life outside work.

The Role

As our Trainee Advertising Sales Executive, we'll equip you with the skills to sell our recruitment advertising services to employers across the UK.

Once you've developed an understanding of our products and services, you'll be engaging with potential clients across the country, making calls and creatin conversations about how we can help them succeed.

With your initial focus on business development, you will seek to address the recruitment challenges of our clients, managing sales opportunities through to close.

Additionally, you will:

- Establish ongoing client relationships, encourage repeat business

- Maintain a sales pipeline

- Keep accurate customer records using our Salesforce CRM system

- Respond to inbound enquiries and prepare customer quotations and proposals

About You

To be considered as our Trainee Advertising Sales Executive, you will need:

- Sales experience

- Good communication and interpersonal skills

- The ability to build positive customer relationships

- Good organisational skills

- A motivated and resilient approach

- A willingness to learn and develop new skills

Other organisations may call this role Trainee Sales Executive, Junior Sales Executive, Advertising Sales Executive, Sales Representative, Sales Development Representative, Business Development Representative, BDR, Junior Business Development Executive, or Trainee Account Executive.

Webrecruit is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants. We believe that an inclusive working environment helps our people and our business succeed.

If you have sales experience, a willingness to learn and the ambition to develop a career in recruitment advertising, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today to take the next step in your sales career with Webrecruit.

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