Full-Time

Account Manager

Technical Building Services/M&E

Posted on 9/10/2026

Universal Business Team

Universal Business Team

Family-business consulting, training, and group purchasing

Compensation Overview

£40k/mo

+ Performance bonus + OTE £45,000–£50,000

Morley, UK

In Person

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
CRM

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Requirements
  • Proven account management experience with responsibility for customer growth.
  • A consultative, solution-led approach to selling.
  • Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent follow-up discipline and attention to detail.
  • Experience managing opportunities through a customer relationship management system.
  • A proactive, organised and commercially minded approach.
  • The desire and curiosity to learn a technical industry and product offering.
Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain strong relationships across an assigned portfolio of customer accounts.
  • Develop account growth strategies to increase customer spend and profitability.
  • Identify cross-selling and upselling opportunities across products, technical services, and off-site solutions.
  • Follow up quotations, enquiries, and project opportunities to maximise conversion rates.
  • Work closely with technical colleagues to identify and qualify opportunities requiring specialist support.
  • Conduct regular account reviews and maintain strategic customer engagement plans.
  • Accurately manage customer activity, opportunities, and pipeline progression through the customer relationship management system.
  • Gain insight into customer projects and identify opportunities to expand the business's involvement across key accounts.
Desired Qualifications
  • Exposure to selling technical products within the building services or construction sector.
Universal Business Team

Universal Business Team

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UBT helps family-owned businesses grow and run more efficiently by providing advisory, coaching, training, and accounting services, plus a group purchasing program. Its training courses cover finance, HR, leadership, marketing, and sales and are delivered through on-site workplace visits and online sessions; the group purchasing service uses the client network to secure better prices for various products and services. UBT differentiates itself with a social mission that reinvests profits into education and charitable work, funding initiatives like OneSchool Global and the Rapid Relief Team, alongside its consulting and training offerings. Its goal is to help clients increase profitability, improve liquidity, and reduce debt across about 3,000 clients in 19 countries with a global team of around 700.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • UBT's 2026 Dayforce rollout improves hiring visibility across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the UK.
  • The company still markets active growth across 19 countries and 3,000 clients.
  • UBT's education and charitable reinvestment strengthens brand appeal among purpose-driven employers.

What critics are saying

  • UBT's model depends on founder-led trust and family-business referrals, concentrating revenue risk.
  • The Precinct and group-buying offerings face replication by niche consultancies and procurement platforms.
  • If consulting margins weaken, UBT's reinvest-all-profits mission limits capital for acquisitions.

What makes Universal Business Team unique

  • UBT serves 3,000 family businesses across 19 countries, unusually focused on family firms.
  • The Precinct combines consulting with coworking in Sydney, Auckland, and the UK.
  • Dayforce adoption in 2026 shows UBT operates a globally centralized people platform.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Life Insurance

Meal Benefits

Profit Sharing

Performance Bonus

Wellness Program

Professional Development Budget

Training Programs