Growth & Bid Operations Coordinator

Artifex; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Artifex is seeking a Business Development Coordinator to support the BD team in pursuing new opportunities and delivering aggressive growth targets. You will provide high‑quality administration, maintain trackers, and coordinate inputs across Engineering, Finance, Operations, and external stakeholders to enable timely submissions.

The role emphasizes data accuracy, continuous improvement, and adherence to Artifex governance and values.

Qualifications

• Strong administrative and analytical experience within a manufacturing, automotive, or similarly complex commercial environment.
• Intermediate Excel capability, including creation and manipulation of trackers, pivot tables, and data analysis; ability to problem-solve using structured data.
• Working knowledge of ERP / MRP systems and understanding of end-to-end commercial or new business processes.
• Experience supporting quotations, bids, or commercial evaluations is highly desirable.
• GCSE (Maths and English) minimum grade C, or equivalent demonstrable work experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the Business Development team with day-to-day administration across new business pursuits, RFQs, quotations, nominations, and customer requests.
• Maintain accurate trackers for opportunities, quotations, tooling, lump sums, and commercial milestones, ensuring visibility of status, risks, and actions.
• Coordinate internal inputs required for quotations and business cases, liaising across Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, Operations, and Program teams to ensure timely and complete submissions.
• Support the preparation, distribution, and version control of commercial documentation to ensure accuracy and consistency across submissions.

Skills

Administrative experience

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving with data

Stakeholder collaboration

Organizational skills

Process improvement

Education

GCSE (Maths & English) C or equivalent

Tools

Excel

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

Artifex is seeking a Business Development Coordinator to support the BD team in pursuing new opportunities and delivering aggressive growth targets. You will provide high‑quality administration, maintain trackers, and coordinate inputs across Engineering, Finance, Operations, and external stakeholders to enable timely submissions.

The role emphasizes data accuracy, continuous improvement, and adherence to Artifex governance and values.