Bid Content Database Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in the UK is seeking a Bid Content Database Manager for a fixed-term contract. You will manage the content database, ensuring high-quality and compliant materials for bid proposals. The ideal candidate has experience in database management and familiarity with the financial services sector. This role offers a salary range of £39,825 to £44,250 with hybrid working options. Join us to make a difference while enjoying a fulfilling career.

Benefits

Extensive benefits package

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in database management, preferable with Qvidian system.
• Familiarity with pension and investment sectors.
• Strong skills in creating persuasive bid content.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the Qvidian database for content quality.
• Identify and create new knowledge for relevance.
• Establish procedures for knowledge use and expired content.

Skills

Database management

Knowledge of Qvidian or proposal management software

Understanding of pension and investment products

Excellent written and communication skills

Problem solving and decision making

Relationship building

Job description

End Date

Saturday 07 February 2026

Salary Range

£39,825 - £44,250

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

Bid Content Database Manager – Fixed Term Contract

SALARY: £39,825pa to £48,675pa plus an extensive benefits package.

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: 35 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 the above listed hubs.

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we shape finance for good. We’re focusing on the future—investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone, including you!

About Us

We have an exciting opportunity for a Content Database Manager to join our Bid Team for 12 Month Fixed Term Contract! You'll be part of the Insurance, Pensions and Investment (IP&I) Bid Team within Scottish Widows Distribution Development & Performance. Our aim is to become the best Bid Team in the Financial Services marketplace! You'll be joining the Bid team which is a fast paced, deadline driven team who are responsible for building and responding to questionnaires, Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposals (RFP) and Beauty Parade pitches for both retention/new workplace pension business and assist with general new business enquires.

The key accountabilities include

• Management and maintenance of the Qvidian database to ensure all content is up to date, of a high quality, technically compliant and searchable for the Bid Team

• Facilitate the identification and creation of new knowledge or update existing knowledge to ensure it remains relevant

• Establish procedures, processes, standard methodologies and recommendations for the use of the knowledge repositories including expired content

• Management of Client Testimonials and Case Studies

• Working in close cooperation with the distribution sales teams, proposition managers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to ensure proposal input is well‑written, accurate, balanced, persuasive and timely

• Conduct post RFP/Pitch technical reviews to ensure content used is current and up to date and to gather new and updated material to add to the database.

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

• Experience in database management with a working knowledge of Qvidian system or other proposal management software.

• Familiarity with protection, pension and investment products and experience of working within a Bid Team environment

• Awareness of Bid Management principles and particularly how to create compelling and persuasive bid content.

• Excellent written, spoken, and presentation skills with ability to problem solve, make decisions and prioritise workload

• Have the skills to build relationships, network, and build contacts across the organisation through being approachable and empathetic.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• APMP qualified to Foundation level or willingness to work towards

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. 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. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

So, if you are excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We would 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.