Portfolio Account Manager - Elite in Leicester

Reports to: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Leicester LE3 5BZ - Fully office-based role

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week

We’re looking for experienced, talented, and ambitious professionals to join us on an exciting journey as we continue our rapid growth, based from our Leicester office. You’ll be joining the internal team at a pivotal stage, with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of customer service excellence within Yu Energy. Passionate, proactive, and motivated people are the driving force behind our success—and you could be part of that story.

In the role of Portfolio Account Manager, you will be responsible for delivering outstanding service and long-term value across a portfolio of Third-Party Intermediaries (TPIs) within the SME and Mid-Market sectors. You will bring experience in building strong, trust-based relationships, with a proven track record of enhancing client satisfaction and retention within the business utility sector. You will work closely with your TPI partners to ensure our brand proposition and products are seamlessly embedded into their customer journey, resolving any challenges efficiently and effectively. Acting as a key point of contact for Yu Energy, you will support your partners’ ongoing performance, build strong networks within each organisation, and create additional value through regular engagement, support, and collaboration.

Alongside managing your own portfolio, you will collaborate with Strategic Account Managers to provide pricing and service support when required. This offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your expertise and gain exposure to some of our larger and more complex accounts. As a Portfolio Account Manager at Yü Energy, your primary responsibility is to take accountability for leading the engagement of our Business Account Customers. From the moment a prospect agrees to become a Yü customer, you will manage the end-to-end interaction throughout their lifecycle. Your focus will be on onboarding performance, billing, revenue management and cash management performance and Smart Install bookings.

What We Need from Yü

• Accountable for managing Business Account customers accounts, including onboarding, billing, revenue management performance, and cash management performance.
• Strengthen day-to-day client relationships through exceptional client service, in-depth knowledge of the client’s industry and business and impeccable delivery and client engagement.
• Develop and manage key strategic relationships across key clients and stakeholders to drive successful engagement programs.
• Ensure risks and opportunities are fully understood and communicated, identifying the best ways of mitigating the key risks and maximizing the key opportunities.
• Support department-wide development initiatives.
• Maintain and enhance knowledge of the energy industry.
• Monitor competitive activity within the assigned customers, being alert to any opportunities and threats.
• Analyse client needs and provide tailored solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-department teams to ensure client satisfaction.
• Provide regular reports and updates to the line management and other stakeholders.
• Manage and support projects from end to end.
• Develop key relationships across the organisation and with third parties.
• Train new starters on processes and policies.
• Seek improvements in working processes and practices.
• Confidently promote effective communication within the wider team and cross-departmental.

About Yü

If you have what it takes you could be just what we’re looking for…

• Advanced relationship management skills, with the ability to build, influence, and sustain strong partnerships both internally and externally at all levels.
• Strong commercial acumen, navigating complex partner requirements and identifying opportunities to maximise long-term value.
• End-to-end ownership mindset, taking full accountability for all account touchpoints and the overall partner experience.
• Proactive account management approach, including leading regular strategic reviews, identifying risks and opportunities, and driving continuous improvement.
• Highly strategic and forward-thinking, with a proactive approach to portfolio growth and partner development.
• Influence-led, with the ability to shape decisions, challenge constructively, and drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Demonstrates strong ownership, accountability, and a bias for action in managing high-value relationships.

Yü Come First

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days.
• Day off on your birthday.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Annual salary review.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies.
• Yü made a difference Awards.
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
• Appointment allowance.
• Long service recognition.
• Refer a friend payment.
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service).
• New modern facilities.
• Death in service and critical illness cover.
• Plus, many more.

This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have an indefinite right to work in the UK.

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