Business Development Coordinator
Location: SAMS, Oban
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time
Salary : £27,644 - £30,805 per annum
Closing date: Monday 16th November 2026
The Role :
The Business Development Coordinator will support the day-to-day business development, customer engagement and income generation activities across SAMS Enterprise.
This is a varied and people focused role, combining customer interaction, event and conference coordination, CRM administration, market research and general business development support. The post holder will help ensure that customer enquiries, meetings, visits, exhibitions and commercial opportunities are managed efficiently and professionally.
Working closely with the Business Development Manager and wider Enterprise team, the role will involve maintaining customer records, coordinating activities and events, supporting communications with clients and partners, undertaking market research and helping colleagues progress new business opportunities.
This role would suit someone who enjoys organisation, working with people, coordinating multiple activities and supporting the growth of an innovative organisation operating within the marine, environmental and sustainability sectors.
Our Ideal Candidate
An organised and proactive individual with an interest in business development, customer engagement, and the marine and blue economy sectors. The post holder will be comfortable coordinating a range of activities, working with colleagues and external stakeholders, and helping to ensure the smooth delivery of business development, marketing, conference, and event-related activities. They will support the Business Development Manager and wider Enterprise team through market research, CRM administration, customer communications, event coordination, and general business development support.
Employee Benefits
Our relatively small, caring community is an ideal environment for making friends, forming collaborations, and supporting each other to do the work that we really care about. Oban and surrounding areas provide a fantastic base to live and work, and we offer a wide range of employee benefits, support and inclusive culture, making SAMS a great place to work.
Our employees are the heart of our business. Recruiting and retaining the right people is the key to our success. Rewarding our employees is therefore an important component of our employment package and we have a wide range of benefits on offer to staff to support your work and lifestyle.
We are proud to provide a wide variety of benefits year-round, offering options to best support our staff, such as: flexible & hybrid working options, purchase of additional annual leave, shopping discounts, Cycle 2 Work scheme, purchases of technology through salary sacrifice, Payroll Giving, Pensions Plus, access to portals to support health and wellbeing, a sabbatical scheme, free car parking with access to electronic charging points as well as access to a number of training & development courses.
Additionally, SAMS encourages and recognises excellence among staff through various recognition and reward arrangements. We are striving to constantly develop and expand the benefits and offers for our colleagues.
Interested?
We would love to hear from you. If you have queries on the job and would like to talk these through before applying, please email these through, in the first instance, to people@sams.ac.uk
Applications must include CV and Cover Letter and should be sent electronically to recruitment@sams.ac.uk quoting Job Ref. ‘SE08/26.DC ’ in the subject heading.
Full details can be found here:
Business Development Coordinator Job Description.pdf
Business Development Coordinator - JD Accessible Format.pdf
Please find further information below on how we can help you apply:
We are a Disability Confident Employer. Where a candidate requires reasonable adjustments as part of the application process, we encourage you to let us know. Where applicants with a disability meet the essential criteria for the job, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your skills, talent and abilities at interview.
SAMS’ commitment to gender equality has been recognised, as our institute was presented with an Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) Bronze Award and is currently working towards Investors in Diversity accreditation.
SAMS follows Fair Work Practices.
SAMS Group is committed to being an equal and open organisation. Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we strive to remove any barriers that may prevent people from applying to join us. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and from all who share our values and can help us to broaden our knowledge and range of ideas.
