Business Development Co-ordinator

Thompson Aero; Portadown; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in Portadown seeks an experienced individual to lead the end-to-end bid process, ensuring support for sales executives and managing various inputs from stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical, people management, and communication skills, alongside a solid understanding of project risk management. The position offers competitive salary, annual bonus, and comprehensive benefits including flexible working hours and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

33 days annual leave

Flexible working hours

Employee referral bonus

Health cash plan

Pension scheme

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Ability to work under pressure and meet challenging deadlines.
• Confident in leading technical meetings to achieve goals.
• Experience in customer-facing roles and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end bid process and maintain data for assessments.
• Manage virtual bid teams and contributions from various stakeholders.
• Support sales executives during the bid process.

Skills

Analytical skills

People management

Communication skills

Commercial skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

The post holder will be responsible forthe end-to-end Win Business process for potential business opportunities. Providing accurate and up to date KPIs on the performance of the Commercial team against business targets for the given year. Supporting the worldwide sales team during new bid campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining data to enable assessment of potential new business in line with current internal supply and demand
• Ownership of the end to end ‘Bid process’
• Manage virtual bid teams and inputs from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from technical (mechanical and electrical engineering, integration certification), programme management, finance, commercial, legal, operations and external suppliers
• Provide support to the Sales Executive team during the ‘bid process’ including but not limited to:
  • Reviewing the commercial and contractual aspects of the bid with all internal stakeholders ensuring all services and terms are fully and cncisely responded to in the final proposal to the customer
  • Contributing to the written proposal - both in terms of content and presentation (such as preparation of a management summary)
• Understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business issues in relations to all proposals within their control
• Develop & maintain Marketing seat readiness plans in conjunction with other functions for upcoming seat demonstrations for internal and external customers
• Working closely with the Sales & Business Development Executive to manage the business Portfolio, focused on the bid space for new opportunities against product strategy, inclusive of internal demands such as the Hamburg AIX trade event each year
• Gathering the required data to support the providing on time delivery of accurate Commercial team KPIs on a monthly basis
• Ownership and monthly update of all KPIs relating to the RFP processRespnsible for management and logistics of the Commercial ‘Marketing seats’ to meet the needs of the Sales teams

Reward

• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus (linked to company performance)
• 33 days annual leave (Increase after 5 years' service)
• 37.5 hours per week
• Flexi time working
• £5,000 employee referral bonus
• Health cash plan
• Contributory Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Holiday Purchase Scheme - Salary Sacrifice
• Electric Car Scheme - Salary Sacrifice
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme at x4 gross salary
• Competitive enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• IVF & Assisted Conception Policy
• Women in Business - Corportate Member
• Wellbeing Initiatives
• Employee Recognition scheme
• Long Service Awards
• Local charity /sponsorship activities
• Dedicated employee parking
• Discounted Gym membership
• Learning and development opportunities
• Career progression

Requirements

Essential

• Highly networked role that requires an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines
• Strong analytical, people management, communication and commercial skills
• Confident in leading technical meetings and discussions to ensure that the required goals are met
• Solid understanding and implementation of internal governance procedures
• Proven awareness of project and risk management identification and mitigation strategies
• Sound engineering knowledge preferably in the BC seating environment
• Understanding of contractual wording and documents, with previous experience of reviewing such items
• Previously worked in a customer facing role
• Experienced in conflict resolution
• Confident in presenting to internal and customer Senior Leaders
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, good working knowledge of other MS packages including Word and PowerPoint
• Able to travel for periods of up to 1 week at a time, inclusive of weekends as and when required to support the business need

We reserve theright to enhance criteria on shortlisting. Thompson Aero Seating is an Equal Opportunities employer. The closing date for applications is the 1st February 2026 at 17:00.

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