Business Development Coordinator £30,000 – £35,000 + hybrid working

An award winning, busy and highly respected architecture studio is looking for a Business Development Coordinator to join their busy Bid and Marketing team.

They area a great practice with an impressive portfolio who works across a number of sectors including arts, housing, education, health and commercial.

As the Business Development Coordinator you role will be to support the Practice, with business development and relationship building and supporting the bid team with drafting of bids, tenders and submissions.

Key duties include:

• Support directors in tracking existing relationships and identify new opportunities
• Research and record opportunities across all sectors and services. Track both public and private sector, development and regeneration programmes
• Identity opportunities for the Practice to expand its work in current sectors and move into new sectors
• Assist with developing relationships that are useful to the Practice and its business development activities
• Research networking opportunities
• Develop and manage the opportunities / business development database
• Assist with bid preparation and editing including drafting new copy, proof reading and editing copy
• Ensure all documents conform to the Practice’s brand guidelines
• Bring ideas and suggestions to enhance the Practice’s business development targets
• Follow up and coordinate leads from conference attendance
• Prepare business to business presentations
• Coordinate networking opportunities with Communications team.

Skills

• Knowledge of the construction industry’s procurement processes
• Experience of preparing bid documents and knowledge of bid processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to detail
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and work effectively with teams in a busy and sometimes high pressured environment
• Proactive and creative approach
• Interest in and knowledge of the architecture sector and culture
• Knowledge of Adobe InDesign and/or Affinity Publisher advantageous, but not essential.

You will need to be a confident, ambitious and self-motivated person, capable of working on your own initiative and working independently to develop the role.

They are a great company with a strong family feel, friendly environment who focus on staff wellbeing and inspiring a culture of trust and creativity.  They continue to work in a hybrid manner with staff working 2 days home, 3 days office.

It’s a great role with lots of scope.

Think you could be the one their looking for?  Send in your CV today by clicking on apply now.