• Job Description

  Req#: 113818

  End Date

  Monday 01 July 2024

  Salary Range

  £38,295 - £42,550

  We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

  Flexible Working Options

  Hybrid Working, Job Share

  Job Description Summary

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  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Assistant Communications Business Partner

  SALARY: £38,295 to £42,550

  LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds and Halifax

  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 one of our office sites.

  About this opportunity

  Do you have a passion for finding and sharing stories? Are you energetic, creative and organised? Does the challenge of managing high profile staff events, creating great internal and external content, and dealing with a wide range of people sound like a challenge you’d enjoy? If so, we have a brilliant opportunity for you to join Lloyds Banking Group’s corporate affairs team.

  You’ll be part of a team providing communications support to our Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) business unit, whose customer-centric purpose is to transform the pensions, protection and retirement markets through great brands like Scottish Widows.

  Thousands of people across the UK are working together to deliver brilliant service and innovative products to millions of customers. Communicating our vision and the progress we’re making on this journey is critical to keeping our people engaged.

  As an integral member of the team, you'll have the chance to collaborate with leaders, develop engaging communications for a variety of channels, and be part of a fast-paced, multi-disciplined corporate affairs function.

  Here’s a sense of what a day in the life of an Assistant Communications Business Partner could look like…

  You start the day leading a brainstorm with your colleagues, discussing upcoming activity, growth stories and how to bring them to life. You feel energised and inspired as you share innovative ideas and quickly put plans in place to deliver.

  Next you dive into preparing for the next monthly CEO townhall, combining an in-person audience and thousands of colleagues joining online. You’ve worked closely with leaders and your team to understand the vision, translating it into an engaging and interactive agenda – now the heat is on to ensure it all comes together: content, logistics and technology. Your attention to detail and planning expertise will come into play here – you’ll need to manage speakers, content, external suppliers as well as your own team to ensure the session is flawless. It doesn’t stop there though as you make sure we measure the effectiveness of the activation to keep future sessions fresh and engaging.

  Throughout the day, you engage with lots of teams across the Group, including creative agencies and technical experts. You thrive in a collaborative environment, using your excellent communication skills to build strong relationships and keep everyone aligned on objectives and expectations.

  As the day winds down, you take a moment to reflect on the impact of your work. You feel a sense of fulfilment knowing that your creativity, organisational skills, and passion for storytelling have helped colleagues to connect with our purpose and strategy – and that they understand the role they’re playing in delivery!

  Why Lloyds Banking Group

  If you think all financial services companies are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. An organisation that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

  What you’ll need

  As a small team with a broad remit, there will be lots of opportunities to develop. We’re looking for someone with a can-do attitude, but there are a few skills and attributes which are essential for anyone who wants to apply. We’re specifically looking for:

  • Ability to sniff out a great story that shows how we’re growing with purpose and changing at pace – to replay or elevate it so more people hear it

  • Someone who’s collaborative and comfortable working with a range of stakeholders

  • Experience of delivering communications through a range of channels, in particular face-to-face events, video production and virtual broadcasts

  • Great attention to detail and highly organised

  • An exceptional communicator with strong writing skills

  • Proficient in measurement and evaluation of communications activity, with the ability to build on the insight gathered

  • Experienced in using MS365 suite, in particular Teams Live, Viva Engage

  • Curious and with a growth mindset – we're always looking to develop and improve

  • Awareness and interest of the broader media and external landscape and how it affects the business and people you support

  And any experience of these would be really useful:

  • Ideally you'll have experience of working in a large corporate Financial Services organisation, although this is not essential

  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

  • 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

  Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

  If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our Corporate Affairs Business Partner team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

  Apply today and find out more.

  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.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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