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Business and management apprenticeships

Develop the professional business, management and sales skills your organisation needs to enhance effectiveness, promote innovation and growth.

Our business and management expertise

We introduced the UK's first business degree over 50 years ago and we continue to innovate today. Our long-standing experience and the high quality of our programmes have established us as a leader in professional business, management and sales education in the UK and internationally. We are recognised for excellence and the impact of our business research was ranked number 1 in the UK for quality (Research Excellence Framework).

We have a track record of working in partnership with a broad range of private sector employers such as BT, Amazon, Asda, Halifax Bank, HP, Royal Mail, SAP, Sony Mobile, Siemens, Toshiba Tech, Unilever, WorldPay and public sector employers such as NHS Trusts and Local Authorities, to deliver high-quality training that delivers a return on investment.

Middlesex University recognises that professional business and management skills are essential to the economic growth and that by working in partnership with employers, our apprenticeship programmes can help to deliver this ambition.

Meeting employer needs

Our apprenticeship programmes have been specifically designed to meet employer needs and to create opportunities for people to access a professional career in business and management. We have proactively sought the views of employer about how we can better meet their needs and used this information to inform the development and delivery of our programmes.

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Our business and management degree apprenticeships programmes

Selling products and services to other businesses

B2B Sales Professionals deliver value to business customers, including corporate, public sector, SME, not-for-profit as well as their own organisation. It is a multi-facetted role which includes leading on long term, complex propositions, such as multiple pricing options or which may interface to procurement specialists. Using insights, critical thinking and commercial judgement they deliver commercial benefits to customers. 

  • Award and programme title: BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Business to Business Sales
  • Duration: 3 years 
  • Delivery approach: Blended learning, a mixture of specialist interactive workshops, work-based learning and e-learning resources

Unique benefits for employers:

  • A professional learning programme and delivery approach specifically designed to meet employer needs
  • A state of the art programme that encompasses leading edge thinking in professional sales practice including the digital and social media environments
  • Apprentices develop work-based projects that are specifically designed to deliver business benefits to their employer

Taking responsibility for long-term organisational success, managing people, projects, operations or services

Professional managers are capable of managing complexity and delivering impact at a strategic and/or operational level with management and leadership responsibility for setting and delivering organisational objectives through a wide range of functions. They deploy a wide range of skills including strategic decision making, setting direction and achieving results, building and leading teams, clear communication, developing skills and motivating others, fostering inclusive and ethical cultures, leading change, project management, financial management, innovation, risk management and developing stakeholder relationships.

  • Award and programme title: BA (Hons) BA (Honours) Professional Practice in Management
  • Duration: 3 years 
  • Delivery approach: Blended learning, a mixture of specialist interactive workshops, work-based learning and e-learning resources

Unique benefits for employers:

  • A professional learning programme and delivery approach specifically designed to meet employer needs
  • The programme builds on each apprentices’ specific organisational context to make sure that the skills that are developed are consistently relevant to their work role.
  • Apprentices develop work-based projects that are specifically designed to deliver business benefits to their employer

Work with individuals and teams to enhance their professional performance

Coaching Professionals work with a wide range of individuals and teams across organisations, to empower and engage with them to enhance their professional performance. Coaching is a way of leading in a non-directive manner, helping people to learn through deep listening and reflective, open questions rather than instructing, giving advice or making suggestions. Coaching is a way of treating people, a way of thinking and a way of being which is seen as vital to supporting individuals and organisations in increasingly volatile and ever-changing environments. 

  • Award and programme title: Diploma: Coaching Professional
  • Duration: 14 months 
  • Delivery approach: Blended learning, a mixture of specialist interactive workshops, work-based learning and e-learning resources

Unique benefits for employers:

  • A professional learning programme and delivery approach specifically designed to meet employer needs
  • The programme builds on each apprentices’ specific organisational context to make sure that the skills that are developed are consistently relevant to their work role.
  • Apprentices develop professional coaching skills that promote and help to realise organisational learning benefits for employers

A leader who has senior management responsibility

Senior Leaders play a key role in all types of organisations where there is a workforce to lead, manage and support. The broad purpose of the occupation is to provide clear, inclusive and strategic leadership and direction relating to their area of responsibility within an organisation. Typically, this involves setting, managing and monitoring achievement of core objectives that are aligned to the overall strategic objectives of their organisation. 

  • Award and programme title: Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (Senior Leader) with a possibility to top up to an MBA.
  • Duration: 2 years
  • Delivery approach: Blended learning, a mixture of specialist interactive workshops, work-based learning and e-learning resources

Unique benefits for employers:

  • A professional learning programme and delivery approach specifically designed to meet employer needs
  • The programme builds on each apprentices’ specific organisational context to make sure that the skills that are developed are consistently relevant to their work role.
  • Employers benefit from employees who can lead and manage successfully and ethically across a range of organisational contexts and sectors in an increasingly global, diverse and dynamic business environment.

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