Graduate Management Trainee

Relay Direct; Kettering; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based pay

Award-winning training

Travel to UK offices

Job summary

Relay Direct's Graduate Management Trainee programme in Milton Keynes offers a self-employed field role across Kettering and surrounding areas. It features a 5-phase development path from Sales Executive to running a client campaign, with training from day one.

You will represent national brands face-to-face, learn how campaigns are planned, run and measured, and engage in morning coaching before putting skills into practice in the afternoon.

Qualifications

• 18+ with right to work in the UK.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Represent brands face to face with households, businesses and event audiences.
• Pitch, negotiate and sign up new customers using existing systems.
• Learn how campaigns are planned, run and measured: sales, marketing and operations.
• Morning workshops and coaching, then apply in the afternoon.

Skills

People skills

Negotiation

Sales

Communication

Growth mindset

Education

Graduate

Job description

Graduate Management Trainee: Business Development Programme

Milton Keynes office · Self-employed · Performance-based pay · Training from day one

Relay Direct runs face-to-face sales and marketing campaigns for national brands. We meet customers in person, at home, at their business and at events, and turn them into long-term customers. Last year we acquired 66,000 of them for Milk & More. Now Milk & More wants us in 30 locations over the next five years, and we're hiring the people who'll make that happen.

You’ll be based at our Milton Keynes office, working field territories across Kettering and the surrounding area.

What you’ll do

• Represent national brands face to face with households, businesses and event audiences
• Pitch, negotiate and sign up new customers using systems that already work
• Learn how campaigns are planned, run and measured: sales, marketing and operations
• Morning workshops and coaching, then put it into practice in the afternoon

What you get

• A development plan built around you. Our 5-phase Business Development Programme takes people from Sales Executive to running a client campaign and an office.
• Award-winning training: Business UK, Best Business Training & Education Programme, Hertfordshire 2026
• Travel to offices across the UK, team days, and a fast, lively culture

Who we're looking for

• A positive attitude, a student mindset and a real work ethic
• Confident with people. Experience helps but isn't required.
• Graduates, career-changers, and anyone who wants to grow faster than a normal job allows

Brands we've worked with include Milk & More, Our Future Health, Marie Curie, Oxfam, NDCS, Butternut Box and Woodgreen.

This is a self-employed opportunity. You must be 18+, have the right to work in the UK, and be able to get to our Milton Keynes office daily. Because the role is self-employed, we're unable to consider applicants on a Tier 4 / Student visa.