Job Description:

Bids & Tender Manager
Salford Quays (M50 3SP) or Staines (TW18 3DZ)
Hybrid working options
Permanent
Up to £45,000 + excellent benefits
Full time (37.5 hours per week)

Closing date - 13/08/2025

We make health happen

Here you'll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

Working in our UK Insurance function you'll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you'll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each day.

The role holder will use good business writing skills to bring to life the Bupa Value Proposition, demonstrate our understanding of the client's requirements and the difference we can make to workplace health and wellbeing.

How you'll help us make health happen:

· Work with the Tender Team Manager and the Account Managers to produce high quality content to support our bids, tenders, and renewals.

· Collaborate with colleagues including Account Managers, Product & Propositions, Marketing, Pricing, Legal and Operations teams to help coordinate and project manage new business projects.

· Work independently on most new business and client engagement activities, overseeing the Tender Executive as required with input from the Account and Sales teams.

· Develop project plans for new business and renewal activity, leading the development of win themes and propositions, overseeing the development of presentations, and managing, maintaining and improve the operational processes for bids, tenders, renewals, and client review.

· Acting always with integrity and a customer focus to ensure tenders are compliant, accurate, on brand, align to customer needs, easy to assimilate and maximises Bupa scores at customer evaluation.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

· Proven copy writing experience, ideally in a business development context.

· Understanding of the tender process and the role of copywriting to deliver successful outcomes.

· Excellent attention to detail and proof-reading skills

· Familiar with copywriting styles best suited for long and short form documents and best practices for digital activity

· Can demonstrate understanding of proposition development and the role of client insights in the bid and tender process.

· An enthusiastic team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills

·Well organised and ability to work to tight deadlines.

· Ability to assimilate and condense complex information quickly, recognising the important issues.

· Collaborative and proactive to actively coordinate and support the new business process.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

Why Bupa?

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We'll make sure you are treated fairly. That's why we're happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Whether you've found your feet or are discovering a new path.

Welcome to a place that celebrates you.

This isn't where you've been.

This is where you're going.

This is what we have belief in.

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