Sales & Bid Management Administration Support

this opportunity and L3Harris UK; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence technology firm in Farnborough is seeking a candidate for an operations and sales support role. This position involves managing public sector procurement frameworks, providing administrative assistance to the sales team, and coordinating demo equipment requests. Candidates must have proven experience in a similar multifaceted role, preferably within the defence or aerospace sectors, along with strong organisational, communication, and project management skills. Hybrid working and competitive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Hybrid working where possible

25 days holiday per year

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme with employer contribution

Life Assurance up to 10x salary

Flexible health care options

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar multifaceted operations or sales support role, preferably in the defence aerospace or communications sectors.
• Strong organisational and project management skills are required.
• Excellent communication abilities in writing and speech.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain company presence on public sector and defence procurement frameworks.
• Provide administrative support to the sales and business development team.
• Coordinate requests for demo equipment and monitor deliveries.

Skills

Proven experience in a similar multifaceted operations or sales support role

Strong organisational and project management administration skills

Excellent written and verbal communication abilities

Comfortable working independently and proactively identifying and solving problems

Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

Experience with CRM systems

A background in the military defence industry or government

Job description

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites our team of nearly 1000 people delivers unique capabilities across space air land sea and cyber for military security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Farnborough engineer and maintain Night Vision Goggles Precision Approach Radar systems and Tactical Radios. Notably we are the proud designer supplier and maintainer of the 50000 tactical radios in the Bowman tactical C4I system in service with the UK Armed Forces and are working to define and deliver the next generation system Morpheus.

Benefits

• Hybrid working where possible three days onsite per week
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy / sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan dental insurance gym membership critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

Frameworks and Bid Management

• Manage and maintain company presence on public sector and defence procurement frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with framework terms and conditions pricing and reporting obligations.
• Monitor opportunities arising from frameworks.
• Manage all aspects of rapid response proposal development (proposal writing editing illustration production efforts costing etc.) from assignment and receipt of RFP through delivery and receipt by the customer.
• Provide UK input to major bids led by US based Bid Manager.
• Maintain a library of bid assets templates and standard content for efficient reuse.

Sales Administration Support

• Provide administrative support to the sales and business development team.
• Schedule meetings collate material for presentations and support internal sales reporting processes.
• Assist with travel arrangements expense reporting and coordination of customer visits and events.

Demo Equipment Management

• Coordinating requests for demo equipment.
• Monitoring delivery in conjunction with UK and US based Demo Equipment pools.
• Monitor equipment returns particularly export / import documentation.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in a similar multifaceted operations or sales support role preferably in the defence aerospace or communications sectors.
• Strong organisational and project management administration skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Comfortable working independently and proactively identifying and solving problems.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and experience with CRM systems.
• A background in the military defence industry or government would be highly advantageous.

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many of our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

Full Time