Workplace Savings Bid Manager
Workplace Savings Bid Manager
Apply locations: Edinburgh
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Today
Job requisition id: 126599
End Date: Monday 20 January 2025
Salary Range: £57,546 - £63,940
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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary:
JOB TITLE: Workplace Savings Bid Manager
SALARY: £57,546 to £63,940
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
Check out this exciting opportunity in our Workplace Savings Bid Team which is a fast-paced team responsible for managing new business and retention enquiries.
About the role:
You'll be a key part of the team responsible for the development and execution of winning Workplace Savings business. In your role, you and the team working on the tender will demonstrate our understanding of the client, showcase our credentials, and clearly articulate the benefits of choosing Scottish Widows and our value proposition. You'll project manage every element of the entire process, ensuring every interaction with our clients is well planned.
What you'll be doing:
* Own the proposal project, working closely with the Distribution lead who 'owns' the opportunity.
* Produce & manage the proposal project plan (including risk analysis & contingency planning), ensuring that all vital activities are completed on time.
* Facilitate Pre-Proposal Planning meetings with the account team to ensure the appropriate steps are taken to improve the proposal's chances of success.
* Facilitate the proposal strategy meeting with the account team and other key proposal contributors to establish a clear strategy (based on customer & competitive analysis) and to 'storyboard' proposal content.
* Review and critique content as it is produced by the contributors and proposal managers. Ensure that the overall document tells a consistent and clear story.
* Lead proposal learning reviews (providing objective facilitation and developing clear action plans).
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, redefining workspaces, hybrid working, and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.
What you'll need…
* Experience working in bids & proposals within Insurance.
* Clear understanding of strategic proposal management processes, including qualification, pre-proposal planning, strategy development, and storyboarding – as well as overall proposal project management.
* Excellent facilitation skills – able to build & empower proposal teams, generate creativity, and act as an effective “devil’s advocate”.
* Strong project management skill-set and mind-set; able to develop teams and projects under tight time pressure.
* ‘Business-savvy' – some relevant pension and retirement market understanding ideal (but not crucial from Day One).
* Good purchasing empathy (able to “read between the lines” of the RFP to identify the customer’s drivers).
* Ability to manage and coach pitch teams to deliver winning sales stories to prospective and existing customers.
It would be also useful if you have the following...
* Holding Association of Proposal Management Professionals Practitioner Level certification – at the very least, APMP Foundation.
About working for us:
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
* A discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
* Share schemes including free shares.
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow, and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
About Us
For over 320 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses, and communities. With us, you’ll be helping Britain prosper.
You’ll be part of an ever-changing industry, playing a key role in shaping the financial services of the future whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
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