Strategic Bid Manager

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Are you a persuasive communicator with a flair for crafting winning proposals? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, strategic environment where your work directly influences business growth?

A leading UK insurance provider is seeking a Strategic Bid Manager to drive excellence in bid responses and help shape the future of distribution partnerships.

This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys working across senior stakeholder groups, influencing outcomes, and delivering market-leading submissions. If you're ready to make a visible difference in a business that values innovation, collaboration, and care for people – this could be your next move.

We're looking for someone who can:

• Lead the end-to-end bid and tender process, including pipelining, triage, agency coordination, and reporting.
• Write compelling, win-theme focused responses for strategic bids and design impactful pitch presentations.
• Chair the Pipeline Triage Committee, owning decision-making frameworks and KPIs.
• Maintain and evolve a best-in-class Bid Library to support self-service and bespoke submissions.
• Collaborate with business leaders to showcase capabilities and enhance external market perception.
• Develop response and presentation templates to elevate brand visibility and efficiency.
• Analyse bid outcomes and feedback to identify gaps, challenge inefficiencies, and drive profitable growth.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships to improve bid inputs and streamline response times.
• Provide operational planning support to Strategic Sales teams to maximise portfolio opportunities.
• Gather market insights to strengthen broker value propositions and support distribution expansion.
• Manage operational budgets for strategic frameworks and partnerships, ensuring ROI delivery.

You'll have:

• Proven experience managing and delivering high-quality tenders under tight deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at VP/Director level.
• Advanced communication, relationship-building, and project management capabilities.
• A creative mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Solid understanding of data, market dynamics, and proposition development.
• Experience working in complex, customer-facing environments.

If you are interested in this role please apply using the link below or reach out to george.ward@bruinfinancial.com 

Bruin recognises the positive value of diversity, and aims to promote equality and challenge unfair discrimination. As a champion of equal opportunity employment we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions and beliefs. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled, and Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services industry. Our clients work with us because they value a diverse workforce, and subscribe to our shared principle that all appointments are made on merit and that ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration.