Business Development Administrator

Mencap; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A charity supporting individuals with learning disabilities is seeking a full-time Business Development Administrator. This role involves supporting a dynamic team to achieve growth targets by managing opportunities, preparing tenders, and maintaining CRM systems. The position offers flexible working arrangements, ensuring you can perform at your best while contributing to meaningful organizational goals. Ideal candidates are highly organised with a passion for driving growth and detail-oriented work.

Benefits

32 days of paid holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative support is desired.
• Ability to coordinate meetings and contracts.
• Familiarity with market intelligence collection.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Development Team to achieve growth targets.
• Manage new business opportunities, processes, and stakeholder communication.
• Prepare tenders and maintain performance dashboards.

Skills

Highly organised

Attention to detail

Ability to manage multiple e-inboxes

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

We are recruiting for a Business Development Administrator to join our team. In this role, you'll play a vital part in supporting our Business Development Team to achieve ambitious growth targets. You'll ensure new opportunities are captured, processes run smoothly, and stakeholders stay informed.

This is a full‑time, permanent position with the flexibility to work from home or in the office- whichever helps you perform at your best. Provide administrative support to the Business Development Team.

• Manage multiple e‑inboxes for new opportunities and enquiries.
• Record and respond to new business development opportunities.
• Assist in preparing tenders and bids.
• Maintain and update the CRM system for new opportunities.
• Collect and collate market intelligence to support planning.
• Maintain performance dashboards to track progress against targets.
• Coordinate contract review and stakeholder meetings.

Are you highly organised and passionate about driving business growth? Do you thrive in a fast‑paced environment where attention to detail matters? If so, this might be the role for you!

Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

• Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.
• Every day we grow and learn. It's okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes.
• Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long‑term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We're not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you're applying for.

Benefits

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated. Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high‑street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest‑free loans, and many more exciting offerings.