Job Description
Contract type: Fixed Term
Location: Remote Worker - Onshore
Working style: Remote/Homebased
We’re looking for a talented Bid Manager to join our Bid team within Royal London’s UK Distribution business. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in acquiring and retaining profitable strategic partner and client relationships in the UK financial advice market. You’ll work closely with Business Development teams and senior stakeholders, helping to deliver sustainable growth through our Protection and Workplace Pension propositions. If you’re passionate about creating market-leading proposals and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
About the role
- Lead the end-to-end bid and tender process (RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, pitches), from qualification through to submission
- Create high-quality, tailored content aligned to client needs, delivering compelling written proposals and presentations
- Facilitate bid workshops (storyboarding, win themes, competitive analysis) to shape winning strategies
- Work closely with Business Development and senior stakeholders to review opportunities and drive bid direction
- Manage the bid pipeline, tracking progress, reporting on performance, and meeting key deadlines
- Own the development of market-leading proposals, including research, content creation, and pitch materials
- Coach and support SMEs and BDMs to improve proposal quality and consistency across submissions
- Ensure risk management, governance, and regulatory compliance throughout the bid lifecycle
About you
- Strong experience managing end-to-end bid and tender activity in a corporate environment (APMP aligned preferred)
- Proven ability to develop high-quality written proposals and deliver impactful presentations
- Strong understanding of bid best practice and how it supports business growth and retention
- Knowledge of Workplace Pensions, Employee Benefits, Protection, and the wider financial services market
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging and influencing at senior level
- Highly organised and proactive, able to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, comfortable working with data and complex information
- Leadership capability to coach, challenge and support others to deliver high-quality outcomes
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.