Introduction
At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate. You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips. Here, you’re not just improving clients' risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve. If you’re ready to bring your unique perspective to a place where your work truly matters; think of Gallagher.
Overview
Join our Strategic Bid Management Team (SBMT) and play a central role in how Gallagher approaches and delivers its most important client opportunities. This role acts as the senior partner to the Head of SBMT, helping shape direction, bring structure to delivery, and connect teams across our Retail and Specialty Broking Divisions.
You’ll work at both a strategic and practical level, translating priorities into clear actions, strengthening how we work, and ensuring high standards are applied consistently. Alongside this, you’ll stay close to delivery by supporting key bids where your input can influence outcomes.
At Gallagher, you’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive environment where people share ideas, challenge thinking and help each other succeed. You’ll have the opportunity to shape how the function operates, build capability across the team and contribute to work that directly supports business growth.
How you'll make an impact
In this role, you’ll act as the link between strategy and delivery, helping turn direction into practical ways of working across the bid function. You’ll work closely with the Head of SBMT to align priorities, support stakeholders and ensure teams are clear on what’s needed and how work should be delivered.
You’ll help embed consistent standards, processes and governance, making sure bids are approached in a structured way and teams have the tools and guidance they need. By working across Retail, Specialty and enabling functions, you’ll bring people together, improve collaboration and help raise the overall quality of delivery.
Alongside this, you’ll lead and support colleagues within the SBMT, setting clear expectations, building capability and supporting performance and development. You’ll also contribute to performance tracking and insight, helping the team understand what’s working well and where changes are needed.
You’ll stay involved in delivery too, focusing on high-priority opportunities where additional structure, stakeholder alignment or challenge can improve outcomes.
- Support strategic direction and translate it into clear priorities and ways of working
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across sales, client teams and operational functions
- Embed consistent processes, tools and governance across the bid lifecycle
- Support performance insight, reporting and continuous improvement activity
- Coach and support colleagues, helping develop capability across the team
- Contribute to delivery on priority bids where structured leadership can influence outcomes
About You
- You’ve led bids, proposals or commercial delivery work in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
- You set up clear processes or frameworks that help teams deliver work in a consistent way
- You manage or support the development of others, setting expectations and helping build capability
- You work across different teams and bring people together to achieve shared outcomes
- You use data or reporting to identify trends, risks or improvement opportunities
- You communicate clearly with senior stakeholders and guide discussions to support decision-making
- You balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery when needed
- You identify where processes can be improved and take practical steps to implement change
- You maintain focus on quality and ensure outputs meet agreed standards and requirements
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more…
We value inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
