Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Intermediary Distribution Pursuit Manager
SALARY: £39,825 to £44,250
LOCATIONS: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of your time at one of our office sites
About this Opportunity
If you love the challenge of working on multiple bid projects concurrently and thrive under pressure, this is the role for you!
At Lloyds Banking Group, Insurance, Pensions and Investments help personal and business customers with their long-term protection, retirement and investment needs.
You'll join us in the Pensions & Retirement Bid Team, where you'll be a key player in securing large new business opportunities and panel position across a range of products distributed via intermediaries. You’ll support the Intermediary Distribution Pursuit Manager to build content and respond to requests for proposals and other activities associated with winning new business in the Scottish Widows Platform and Protection markets.
You'll be supporting on all bid related activities with the bid team, from kick off through to bid delivery for the Intermediary Distribution Team.
What You’ll Be Doing
Accountabilities will include:
1. On identification of a ‘go’ bid, you will work alongside the Intermediary Distribution Pursuit Manager at the kick-off meeting; discussing and facilitating the meeting agenda and attendees required.
2. Ensuring effective and timely lines of communication between various internal stakeholders when creating a pitch, including management of clarification questions and responses.
3. Engaging with the identified Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who will provide content to support our response to the tender document and calling out delayed responses to seniors.
4. Daily administration task supporting the wider Intermediary distribution Pursuit Team
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, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.
What you’ll need
5. Skilled facilitator with experience driving collaborative in fast-paced environments
6. Have a sharp attention to detail and a relentless focus on delivering customer-centric solutions
7. Confidence in reviewing and refining content to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment with strategic goals
8. Experience working on multiple projects at once
9. Understanding key sales and marketing principles
10. Adept at handling large data collation exercises, under tight timescales
11. Accustomed to building collaborative rapport with internal and external partners, demonstrating your ability to influence and lead
12. Strong communication skills and the ability to manage senior stakeholders across diverse business areas
13. Experience of calling out and escalating potential key project deliverables which are at risk of being compromised
14. Advance level Microsoft Office skills
And any experience of these would be really useful
15. Knowledge in the pensions, retirement or intermediary markets, with a track record of winning proposals with key sales themes.
About working for us
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 attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
16. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
17. An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
18. Share schemes including free shares!
19. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
20. 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
21. 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.