Business Development Trainee

Glasgow City Centre | Full-Time | On-Site | Entry Level | Full Training Provided

Looking for your first real opportunity to get into business and learn how companies actually grow?

Glasgow City Centre | Full-Time | On-Site | Entry Level

Looking for your first real opportunity to get into business and learn what actually drives growth?

We’re looking for a Business Development Trainee to join our growing Glasgow team. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on commercial experience, develop your confidence and learn how successful customer acquisition and sales campaigns contribute to business growth.

You don’t need previous business development experience. With full training, regular coaching and support from day one, you’ll learn the fundamentals before taking on more responsibility as your skills develop.

About Ascenda Global

Ascenda Global is a Glasgow-based sales and marketing company helping brands connect with customers through event sales, retail campaigns and customer acquisition.

We work with clients across a variety of sectors, helping them increase brand awareness, reach new customers and generate growth through engaging sales and marketing campaigns.

Our team is ambitious, social and development-focused. We believe people learn best through practical experience, so you’ll be encouraged to get involved, ask questions and build your commercial understanding from the beginning.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Business Development Trainee, you’ll learn how customer relationships, sales performance and business growth work together.

Your role will include:

• Supporting customer acquisition and sales campaigns
• Engaging with potential customers and understanding their needs
• Representing client brands and communicating their products or services
• Building positive and professional customer relationships
• Working towards individual and team performance goals
• Developing your sales and business development skills
• Tracking results and learning what influences campaign performance
• Identifying opportunities to improve conversations and results

As you gain experience, you’ll begin developing a broader understanding of campaign growth, commercial performance and team development.

What We're Looking For

You don’t need an impressive business CV to get started. We’re more interested in how you communicate, your attitude and what you want to develop into.

You could be a strong fit if you’re:

• Confident and comfortable speaking with new people
• Ambitious and motivated by progression
• A strong communicator and listener
• Curious about business and how companies grow
• Positive, proactive and willing to learn
• Comfortable working towards goals
• Reliable and organised
• Someone who enjoys being part of a driven team

You might be a recent graduate, finishing education, working in retail, hospitality, customer service or sales, or simply looking to move into a more commercially focused career.

Previous business development or sales experience isn’t required — full training is provided.

Where Could It Take You?

The first stage is about building strong foundations across sales, customer acquisition, communication, relationship building and business development.

From there, you’ll have opportunities to develop your understanding of campaign performance, coaching, leadership and team management, with greater responsibility available as your experience grows.

The goal isn’t to throw you into the deep end. It’s to help you understand the business from the ground up and build the skills to progress within it.

What You'll Get

• Competitive base pay
• Performance-based bonuses
• Full training from day one
• One-to-one coaching and ongoing development
• Hands-on business and sales experience
• Clear opportunities for progression
• Leadership and management development
• Regular team socials and team days
• Performance incentives and recognition
• Company events, annual galas and celebrations
• Build Your Commercial Career

If you’re based in Glasgow or can reliably commute to Glasgow city centre and want an opportunity where you can gain commercial experience, develop valuable skills and learn how businesses grow, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today for our Business Development Trainee role in Glasgow and start building your career with Ascenda Global.

Pay: £25,800.00-£32,645.00 per year

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company events
• Employee mentoring programme
• Financial planning services
• Flexitime
• On-site parking
• Profit sharing

Work Location: In person