Strategy Manager

LLoyds Banking Group
End Date
Monday 26 June 2023

Salary Range
£66,861 – £74,290

We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary
Can you think strategically and join the dots across a complex landscape to see the bigger picture? Do you enjoy working at pace and identifying new and improved ways of doing things? Are you passionate about collaboratively shaping how organisations structure themselves to deliver technology effectively? If so, we d love to hear from you!

Job Description

Job title; Strategy Manager

Salary; £66,861pa to £81,700pa plus the benefits listed below

Location; London

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, at our London office site.

Lloyds Banking Group has committed to continue evolving in order to meet the changing needs of its customers. We recently launched a new operating model that brings together business and technology objectives and capabilities. Our new structure is about making it easier for people to work even more closely together across our organisation. Our teams share collective ownership for business and technology outcomes to drive greater pace and effectiveness in how we deliver change so that we can create capacity for more innovation. Multiskilled teams have been brought under joint business and technology leadership, with greater autonomy to deliver technology change.

About this Strategy Manager opportunity.

You’ll be joining the Operating Strategy team, supporting Group COO (the Group s Technology and Change function). We’re a small strategy team that provides innovative and independent thought leadership across a range of strategic projects and has responsibility for defining future operating model and organisational design. We play a pivotal role in the ongoing design, shaping and maturity of the operating model.

We’re looking for someone to join as a Strategy Manager to shape new, innovative thinking around the way we operate across the Group, with specific focus on effective operating model design for technology, change and transformation. You ll work collaboratively to develop solutions for a variety of business and design problems, drawing insight from both internal and external sources.

The role will require establishing relationships across the business to help shape operating model choices. There will be outstanding opportunities to define the target-state operating model of the Group. You ll act as a trusted advisor to internal customers at all levels across the organisation and have significant visibility with the senior leadership team.

This is an excellent opportunity if you

• Want to support senior executive decision and the Group s overall strategy development
• Enjoy solving hugely variable and exciting topics at the forefront of the financial services industry.
• Enjoy working as part of team faced with and resolving intellectually results-oriented problems.

As well as providing an opportunity to gain an extensive knowledge of how the Group operates, the role will provide an ideal platform for progression within the Group given the profile of the team and the exposure to senior executives. You’ll be working in an exciting area of the Group, so you ll be surrounded by hardworking and dynamic people who will help you develop.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

If you think all banks are the same, you d be wrong. We re an innovative, fast-changing business that s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. Diversity of thought is important to how the team operates, and we would therefore be interested in applications from a range of backgrounds. To succeed in this role, you ll be able to demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Proven experience working within either a strategy-based, business development or management consultancy role.
• Practical examples of designing and/or delivering changes to business operating models.
• Demonstrable experience of using strategic thinking to build frameworks to solve complex problems.
• Proficiency in articulating and confidently communicating outputs to senior executive level audience.
• Analytically minded, comfortable with data and insight to support decision making.
• Comfortable leading work with a level of ambiguity, under tight timescales.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.