Assistant Intermediary Distribution Pursuit Manager

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:

• 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.

• Ensuring effective and timely lines of communication between various internal stakeholders when creating a pitch, including management of clarification questions and responses.

• 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.

• 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

• Skilled facilitator with experience driving collaborative in fast-paced environments

• Have a sharp attention to detail and a relentless focus on delivering customer-centric solutions

• Confidence in reviewing and refining content to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment with strategic goals

• Experience working on multiple projects at once

• Understanding key sales and marketing principles

• Adept at handling large data collation exercises, under tight timescales

• Accustomed to building collaborative rapport with internal and external partners, demonstrating your ability to influence and lead

• Strong communication skills and the ability to manage senior stakeholders across diverse business areas

• Experience of calling out and escalating potential key project deliverables which are at risk of being compromised

• Advance level Microsoft Office skills

And any experience of these would be really useful

• 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:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares!

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 28 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.