Bid Manager - Strategic Support

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Asset Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Bid Manager to join our collaborative and high-performing team DC Bid team. This pivotal role sits within our Strategic Support Channel, with a primary focus on managing and maintaining research surveys and portals, completing industry surveys, and delivering quarterly investment performance updates. This work plays a vital role in maintaining L&G’s presence on account panels and sustaining high ratings, which are essential for being considered in new business opportunities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinating and updating research surveys
• Completing industry-wide surveys and ensuring timely, accurate submissions
• Preparing quarterly investment performance updates
• Managing client due diligence questionnaires in collaboration with subject matter experts across the business
• Supporting the Sales Team in preparing for research meetings and producing regular proposition updates for distribution to strategic accounts

While the core focus is on strategic related work, the Bid Manager may occasionally support the Client Opportunities channel during peak periods. This includes:

• Managing proposals for new and existing clients
• Ensuring submissions are compelling, accurate, and delivered on time
• Supporting follow-up queries, pitch preparation, site visits, and other new business activities

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Manage the full process of completing strategic account/industry-wide surveys including annual proposition updates and regular quarterly investment performance updates
• Manage client due diligence questionnaires in collaboration with subject matter experts across the business
• Support the Sales Team preparing for research meetings and producing regular proposition updates for distribution to strategic accounts
• Collaborate with the Content Manager to keep the central repository and standard procedure documents current. This involves conducting post-survey/RFP reviews and updating the repository with new or revised content
• Handling and implementing client pricing requests, including follow-up with non-strategic accounts
• Participate in process improvement initiatives to maintain high standards in service delivery, and create new materials to fill existing gaps.
• Foster connections within the company and externally with a broad network of both investment and non-investment experts
• Consistently enhance your current understanding of the products and collaborate with other departments to refine written materials

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.