Tech-Sales Graduate Programme: Launch Your Career
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Job description
The programme is designed for graduates who want to build careers in technology sales, commercial strategy, account management and customer engagement. Successful candidates will gain practical experience across Core Group’s sales operations while working with leading technology brands and experienced commercial professionals.
The opportunity is open to graduates with qualifications in Business Management, Marketing, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Finance and related fields. The supplied vacancy information does not include a closing date.
| Employer: Core Group
| Division: Core Group
| Business unit: One Sandton Drive
| Industry: Technology, Marketing and Advertising
| Functional area: Sales and Marketing
| Employment type: Contract
| Experience level: Graduate or internship level
Best Before: Not stated
| Remuneration: Not stated
Core Group represents several international technology brands across Sub Saharan Africa.
Its business activities include:
- Retail
- Marketing
- Supply chain
- Finance
- Human resources
The company operates across South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Nigeria.
Through its graduate programmes Core Group aims to develop commercially minded professionals who understand technology products, customer behaviour and modern sales operations.
- The Sales Graduate Programme provides recent graduates with structured workplace experience in Core Group’s commercial environment.
- Participants will work with experienced sales teams while learning how technology products are positioned, promoted and sold through different channels.
- The programme combines practical work, coaching, mentoring and exposure to cross functional business projects.
Graduates may gain experience in:
- Commercial reporting
- Account management
- Retail operations
- Market analysis
- Promotional campaigns
The programme may be particularly valuable for graduates who want to understand how sales decisions affect revenue, profitability and long term business growth.
Applicants must have completed a Bachelor’s Degree within the last three years.
Accepted fields include:
- Business Management
- Marketing
- Commerce
- Economics
- Electrical Engineering
- Supply Chain Management
- Information Systems
- Finance
- Related qualifications
Applicants should also:
- Be based in Gauteng or be willing to relocate
- Be willing to travel where required
- Have an interest in sales and commercial leadership
- Be comfortable working with customers and business partners
- Be able to work in a fast paced environment
- Show analytical and problem solving ability
- Demonstrate initiative and resilience
A valid driver’s licence will be advantageous.
Graduates with qualifications in Business Management, Commerce or Economics may contribute knowledge in:
- Business operations
- Economics
- Management
- Business planning
- Revenue growth
Marketing graduates may contribute experience in:
- Customer research
- Brand positioning
- Campaign planning
- Digital marketing
- Product promotion
- Market analysis
Finance graduates may support:
- Forecasting
- Commercial reporting
- Revenue analysis
- Profitability assessment
- Analytical thinking
- Process improvement
- Data analysis
- Operational efficiency
- Systems thinking
Supply Chain graduates may support:
- Inventory planning
- Sales and operations coordination
- Demand forecasting
- Distribution planning
- Supplier and retail operations
Information Systems graduates may contribute to:
- Customer relationship systems
- Business reporting
- Digital platforms
- Data analysis
The successful graduates will support Core Group’s sales and commercial teams across several areas.
Graduates may assist with:
- Supporting the Sales team
- Helping achieve business targets
- Following up on operational actions
- Supporting customer relationships
- Assisting account management activities
Responsibilities may include:
- Assisting with forecastsPreparing performance reports
- Identifying sales opportunities
Graduates may analyse:
- Customer buying trends
- Product performance
- Market activity
- Promotional results
- Commercial opportunities
This experience can help participants understand how businesses use data to improve sales and financial performance.
Participants may assist with:
- Monthly reports
- Commercial presentations
- Revenue tracking
- Customer performance information
The graduate may learn how Core Group prepares for and supports new technology product launches.
This could include:
- Product information
- Retail readiness
- Stock coordination
- Promotional support
- Customer communication
- Performance monitoring
Graduates may support:
- Promotional campaigns
- Brand activations
- Campaign reporting
- Product awareness activities
Exposure may include:
- Store operations
- Partner relationships
The programme will involve collaboration with:
- Customers
- Marketing teams
- Finance teams
- Supply Chain teams
- Customer Experience teams
- Retail Operations teams
Graduates may also present ideas, recommendations and project updates to business leaders.
- Customer relationship management
- Account support
- Profitability thinking
- Market analysis
- Performance reporting
- Sales operations
- Microsoft Excel
- Customer trend analysis
- Forecasting
- Problem solving
- Market research
- Performance measurement
- Business presentations
- Professional writing
- Stakeholder communication
- Team collaboration
- Taking initiative
- Managing responsibilities
- Presenting ideas
- Supporting business projects
- Building professional confidence
- Sales is directly connected to revenue generation and business growth.
- A strong sales professional must understand more than how to promote products. They must also understand customer needs, commercial targets, pricing, product availability and profitability.
The programme may expose graduates to financial concepts such as:
- Product margins
- Forecast accuracy
- Customer profitability
- Promotional return
- Inventory costs
- Market share
- Commercial performance
- Operating efficiency
This commercial understanding can prepare graduates for careers that combine sales, finance and business strategy.
- The vacancy information does not state a salary or stipend.
An interview is also an opportunity to understand whether the programme includes financial support for travel between Core Group locations.
Experience from the Sales Graduate Programme may support applications for roles such as:
- Account Executive
- Business Development Representative
- Commercial Analyst
- Customer Account Coordinator
- Technology Sales Consultant
- Sales Operations Coordinator
- Key Account Assistant
- Business Development Coordinator
With further experience graduates may progress into:
- Account Manager
- Key Account Manager
- Business Development Manager
- Commercial Manager
- Product Manager
- Head of Sales
Career progression will depend on performance, available vacancies and continued professional development.
Core Group indicates that candidates may stand out if they have:
- A genuine interest in technology
- Knowledge of consumer electronics
- Strong relationship building skills
- Presentation ability
- Confidence working with data
- Customer focused thinking
- Initiative
- Resilience
- University societies
- Sport
- Community organisations
- Small businesses
Formal management experience is not the only way to demonstrate leadership potential.
- Updated CV
- Certified South African identity document where requested
- Bachelor’s Degree certificate
- Academic transcript
- Driver’s licence where available
- References
- Supporting certificates
A graduate who has not yet received a degree certificate may need an official completion letter from the university.
Ensure all information on your CV is accurate.
Best Before: The closing date was not included in the supplied vacancy information.
- The employer may close the vacancy once it receives enough suitable applications.
Successful candidates may be required to undergo:
- Criminal record screening
- Credit screening
- Qualification verification
- Identity checks
- Reference checks
Being shortlisted does not guarantee appointment.
Core Group may use the verification results as part of its final selection decision.
- The programme is based at One Sandton Drive in Sandton, Gauteng.
- The Sales Graduate Programme runs for 12 months.
- Applicants need a Bachelor’s Degree completed within the last three years.
- Relevant qualifications include Business Management, Marketing, Commerce, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Systems and Finance.
- The opportunity is advertised at graduate and internship level. Previous formal experience is not listed as compulsory.
- A valid driver’s licence is advantageous but it is not stated as compulsory.
- Applicants should be willing to travel where required.
- Candidates must be based in Gauteng or willing to relocate.
- The vacancy information does not state a salary or stipend.
- Graduates will assist with sales planning, reporting, forecasting, customer engagement, market analysis, promotional campaigns and cross functional projects.
- No permanent employment guarantee appears in the supplied information.
- The closing date was not provided. Applicants should check the official Core Group Careers platform.
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