Business Development Support Specialist

The role

This role combines business development coordination, sales administration, CRM management, and commercial support. The person will work with business development leaders, technical teams, and senior management to track opportunities and maintain client information.

What you will do

• Support the KSA Business Development team in managing sales, business development and commercial administration activities.
• Maintain and update the CRM, sales pipeline, opportunity tracker and client database.
• Coordinate the end-to-end proposal, tender, RFQ, EOI and prequalification process.
• Prepare and maintain sales reports, forecasts, dashboards, client reports and management information.
• Monitor business opportunities, project pipelines, tenders and market developments.
• Collect market and tender intelligence.
• Coordinate with technical, commercial, finance and operations teams.
• Support client account management including meeting coordination and presentations.
• Assist with client registrations, vendor onboarding and prequalification submissions.
• Maintain a library of company credentials, project profiles, CVs, presentations and case studies.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Commerce, Management, Engineering or a related discipline
• 5–7 years of relevant experience in business development support, sales administration, commercial administration or business coordination
• Strong understanding of sales administration, CRM management, opportunity tracking, proposal coordination and business development processes
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Familiarity with Etimad, Sap Ariba, Oracle and other client and government tender portals and processes
• Strong organizational and administrative skills
• Ability to manage multiple opportunities, proposals, deadlines and stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Arabic communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, coordination and relationship-management skills
• Based in Saudi Arabia

Nice to have

• Experience within an engineering consultancy, construction, infrastructure, professional services or technical services organization
• Previous experience in the Saudi Arabian market, including familiarity with local clients, consultants, contractors, tendering processes and business practices

Benefits

• Work on exciting, challenging and at times groundbreaking designs and projects
• Support from the senior leadership team with a measured and flexible approach
• Career advancement with an established framework

About the company

Jensen Hughes is a leader in fire protection engineering with expertise in security and risk-based fields. The company focuses on making the world safe, secure and resilient through technology and expertise.