Graduate Sales Trainee

BMS Performance; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Extensive sales training

Pension scheme (auto-enrolment)

Job summary

UK Plumbing Supplies, founded in 2016 and growing rapidly, offers a Structured Commercial Graduate scheme across the UK. Based in Gloucester, you will embark on a professional sales career with on-the-job training and extensive sales development opportunities.

You will participate in breakfasts with customers, supplier trade days and external events as part of a dynamic graduate programme designed to build core commercial skills and future leadership potential.

Qualifications

• Full, clean UK driving license
• Ambition to break into business-to-business sales
• Strong work ethic and a team player who will ‘roll up their sleeves’ and do any job required

Responsibilities

• Learn about the company, its products and the market with on-the-job training.
• Receive extensive professional sales training to equip you with the tools and skills required to thrive in a sales career.
• Work on breakfasts with customers, external events, supplier trade days and other activities.
• Internal progression opportunities to become future managers as performance on the programme grows

Skills

Ambition to break into B2B sales

Strong work ethic

Team player

Willingness to learn

Job description

• Structured Commercial Graduate scheme with a professional sales training programme
• £30,500 salary + bonus
• UK’s largest independent Plumbing & Heating merchant
• Great stability as an industry – remained open and thriving throughout the pandemic

The Company

UK Plumbing Supplies were founded in 2016 and fast forward to 2026; they operate across 300+ trading locations, turnover £900+ million annually and have acquired 16 different brands of whom they trade under.

This growth has made them the largest and fastest growing plumbing and heating merchant in the UK and are therefore on the hunt nationally for ambitious and hungry graduates to join them on their exciting journey.

Each of the 300+ trading locations are effectively looking to hire and retain outstanding talent. As a graduate, UK Plumbing Supplies can offer you stability based on their industry and its ever-growing needs alongside the chance to develop a professional sales career.

So, what will you be doing?

As a Commercial Graduate Trainee, you will learn all about the company, its products the market while benefiting from continuous ‘on the job’ training. Furthermore, you will receive extensive professional sales training to equip you will all the tools and skills required to thrive in a successful sales career.

No two days are the same here; you can look forward to breakfasts with customers, external events, supplier trade days and much more. It’s a really fun and exciting place to start your career!

The UK Plumbing Supplies Graduate Scheme is designed to provide the key commercial skills to support business growth and to be a resource for future managers. Internal progression for existing colleagues is always the preference which presents a great opportunity for graduates who are performing on the programme to become future managers as their long term goal.

What’s in it for you?

• £30,500 base salary
• Eligibility for company profit share scheme
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Extensive professional sales training
• Auto-enrolment into the Company’s contributory pension scheme (after 3 months)
• Personal development programme
• Progression opportunities into external sales & leadership

Who are you?

• Full, clean UK driving license
• Ambition to break into business-to-business sales
• Strong work ethic and a team player who will ‘roll up their sleeves’ and do any job required
• This role may require you to work up to two Saturday mornings a month
• Lots of drive, initiative, and a willingness to learn all areas of the business
• Ambition – desire for a successful career in a dynamic, commercial environment