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About this Technical Advisor (Building Products) role at Universal Business Team

Universal Business Team · Onsite · Doncaster, England, United Kingdom

Location: Office-Based- Doncaster
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm
Salary:
£40,000 - £42,000 + Bonus Scheme

Our client is a leading supplier of construction consumables and equipment, serving major contractors and national housebuilders across the UK. With a catalogue of over 30,000 products, they support some of the country's largest construction businesses

They are looking for a commercially astute and customer-focused Technical Advisor to join their growing team based in Doncaster.

This is an inbound role where you'll manage customer enquiries, prepare quotations, and provide advice and support to customers across a wide range of construction products. You'll work closely with the external sales team, suppliers, and customers to ensure every enquiry is handled efficiently and professionally.

Most importantly, they are looking for someone who genuinely cares about delivering an outstanding customer experience, ensuring the customer feels supported, valued, and confident they have the right solution.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Managing a busy inbox of inbound customer enquiries
  • Preparing quotations and processing customer requests
  • Building trusted advisor relationships with customers
  • Understanding customer requirements and recommending suitable products and solutions
  • Handling technical product enquiries and developing product knowledge
  • Liaising with suppliers to source products and secure the best commercial outcomes
  • Resolving customer issues quickly and effectively
  • Supporting customers from initial enquiry through to order completion
  • Monitoring opportunities and helping maximise quote conversion rates
  • Working closely with colleagues across sales, operations, and purchasing
  • Understand when flexibility is needed to win business, protect relationships, or maximise profitability.

Requirements

  • Strong customer service background
  • Commercially minded with excellent decision-making skills
  • Confident managing multiple enquiries and priorities
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to build credibility and trust with customers quickly
  • Technical Curiosity- You don't need to be a construction expert already, but you do need a genuine desire to learn.
  • Construction industry experience, trade experience, or strong DIY knowledge would be beneficial but is not essential

Benefits

  • £40,000 - £42,000 salary
  • Bonus scheme
  • Clear progression opportunities
  • Stable, growing business with ambitious plans
  • Supportive team environment
  • Opportunity to make a real impact within the business
  • If you're passionate about customer service, enjoy solving problems, have strong commercial awareness, and want to build a long-term career with a growing business, we'd love to hear from you.
  • You'll join an established Sales Support team alongside two existing team members.
  • While previous team leadership experience is not essential, this role offers significant development opportunities. For the right person, there is genuine potential to grow into a management position within 12 months and become a key support to the Sales Director, helping to analyse opportunities, conversion rates, and team performance.
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About Universal Business Team

Universal Business Team (“UBT”) is a global enterprise spanning 19 countries across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Central America and Australasia. UBT, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, is a diversified business consultancy that supports clients with business-advisory and group-buying services with the objective to help businesses develop a competitive edge.

UBT was launched in 2009 in response to the Global Financial Crisis to support client organisations that were either in distress or looking to improve their competitiveness and financial performance. Currently, UBT turns over $500M (AUD) and has aspirations for significant growth over the next three to five years. A recent decision was made to bring four separate global regions together under the one global brand and leadership team.

UBT’s business advisory services comprise corporate training, consulting, recruitment, accounting, and group buying services. UBT facilitates leadership and business excellence for our client’s in their respective industries. Through the group buying function, UBT nurtures mutually-beneficial relationships between member businesses and world-leading providers of business goods and services. The outcome to which we strive is a “win-win” for small-to-medium enterprises and big business alike.

UBT provides services and products to approximately 3,000 independent, family-owned businesses globally with combined annual revenues exceeding $12B (AUD). The majority are small to medium sized enterprises with typical annual revenue ranges between $5m-$20m. However, there are also some larger businesses with annual revenues in the range of $100m-$250m.

UBT supports clients by providing products, services and support designed to increase their profitability and growth. The after-tax profits generated by UBT are reinvested into community initiatives, predominantly through schools and charities.,

UBT Recruitment are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We will apply a rigorous, objective selection process using non-discriminatory criteria, as far as possible on behalf of all the businesses we recruit for.
To view our policy in full please contact uk.recruitment@ubteam.com

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