Associate Director - Lending Innovation

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JOB TITLE: Associate Director - Lending Innovation
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of our time, at our London office.

About this opportunity

Do you want to join team of forward-thinking professionals who are dedicated to driving innovation and transforming the corporate lending journey, in a growing part of Lloyds Banking Group? If so, read on!

We're currently seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Corporate Lending Innovation team as an Associate Director. You'll manage the development and implementation of initiatives that will shape the future of the industry. We're committed to providing a supportive and collaborative work environment where your ideas and contributions will be valued and acknowledged.

This is a great opportunity to be a part of a world-class organisation that is committed to excellence and innovation in Corporate and Institutional Banking.

What you'll be doing:

• Independently and proactively conducts research across coverage, lending product, portfolio management, balance sheet management and lending operations to understand challenges and opportunities impacting CIB competitiveness in loan markets.
• Uses a value-driven approach to determine how investment initiatives should be prioritised and brings this to life through a compelling and visual story.
• Collaborates with change functions to understand the viability and feasibility of delivering initiatives.
• Supports delivery of strategic initiatives by seeking input from subject matter experts within business areas, supporting change functions with prioritisation of the backlog, and managing expectations across all stakeholders.
• Actively collaborates with partners across the group to advance the above objectives and push forward the innovation agenda.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What we need from you?

• Proven experience in using data synthesis and analysis to support priotisation.
• Experience in supporting strategic change delivery to improve customer or client experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to “connect the dots” between change initiatives and how these impact the bank’s bottom line e.g. increased profits, reduced RWAs.
• Knowledge of the corporate lending journey is highly desirable, but not a necessity if you have strong experience in other areas.

About working for us!

Our focus is to ensure we're 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’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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.