Bid Manager, Business

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End Date Tuesday 15 September 2026 Salary Range £0 - £0 We support flexible working –

This is an exciting 12-month Fixed Term Contract opportunity within the Scottish Widows Bid Team. As a Bid Manager, you'll play a key role in retaining existing clients and winning new business opportunities across the Workplace and Intermediary markets. You'll lead multiple strategic bids and retention activities from qualification through to submission, bringing together stakeholders from across the business to develop compelling, customer-focused responses.

Alongside delivery of live opportunities, you'll help drive the evolution of our bid function by embracing AI, automation and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, quality and scalability. Working closely with distribution teams, proposition specialists, subject matter experts and senior leaders, you'll help shape bid strategy, challenge thinking and ensure Scottish Widows is positioned in the strongest possible way to succeed.

This is a varied and highly visible role that offers the opportunity to influence decision-making, develop deep market expertise and contribute to the future growth of the business. This role aligns with our ambition to build a high-performing, innovative and customer-focused bid function that delivers outstanding stakeholder and customer outcomes.

• Leading the delivery of new business and retention opportunities from qualification through to submission.
• Developing bid strategies, win themes and compelling customer-focused proposals.
• Producing high-quality written responses, presentations and client-facing materials.
• Managing relationships with stakeholders across sales, proposition and specialist teams.
• Providing challenge and insight to strengthen customer outcomes and improve bid competitiveness.
• Driving adoption of AI, automation and continuous improvement across bid activities.
• Supporting the development of bid content, templates and knowledge assets.
• Embedding lessons learned and best practice across future opportunities.
• Coaching colleagues and contributing to team capability development
• Ensuring opportunities are managed in line with agreed governance, systems and processes.

• Proven bid management experience.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Commercial awareness and strong customer focus.
• Experience developing proposals, tenders or client-facing submissions.
• A track record of driving improvements and delivering positive change.
• A collaborative approach and commitment to team success

• Knowledge of the workplace pensions or intermediary wealth market.
• Experience of both new business and client retention activity.
• Experience using AI, automation or bid technology solutions.
• Knowledge of proposal automation or content management platforms.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. This is a place for you:
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office…