The Opportunity

Do you love a challenge, thrive on change, enjoy working in a high pace environment and want to work in an inclusive, fun and energetic team? If your answer is "absolutely!" then you may be the person we're looking for. You'll work side by side with Sharon Doherty, our Chief People and Places Officer and the P&P Executive Team, playing a pivotal part in driving our transformation plans and challenging our ways of working to ensure we deliver in an agile way .

The role provides a fantastic opportunity to grow your leadership communication skills by playing an active role in our colleague events both on stage, and on our community calls.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted-advisor for Sharon, using judgement to bring things to her attention as needed

• Leading the People & Place Leadership Team m eetings and the People & Places Executive Committee, ensuring agendas are relevant, strategic and value adding . Seeking opportunities to collaborate with external partners.

• Work directly with the P&P Leadership Team, to implement our ambitious transformation plans

• Ensure the team are working end-to-end (both within P&P and the wider Group), fostering a culture of collaboration, openness, and innovation, suggesting improvements where we see signs of working in silos and helping the team to adopt an agile mindset

• Support review and preparation of analysis and recommendations on key papers, owning follow up on areas for further development. Attending alongside / on behalf of the Chief People and Places Officer at relevant meetings

• Ensure integrity and quality of updates shared with Group and Board committees

• Work with the P&P Comm unication s and Connections Lead to implement an engaging communications plan, promoting the business with colleagues and building brand advocacy with the opportunity to play a leading role in team communication events.

• Lead on preparation for engagement with key external partners including regulators, industry peers and government – bringing together relevant perspectives from across the business to ensure focused, outcome orientated, meetings.

• Working with the relevant specialists, ensure compliance with the Group’s policies and procedures, along with relevant regulatory and statutory requirement.

• Lead special projects on behalf of Sharon ensuring alignment with Group and business strategy and policy and in conjunction with other central functions and teams.

• Care for our people , bringing a human perspective to what we do in P&P and across LBG . Actively promote an inclusive and diverse workplace . act as an ambassador for Sharon and the P&P team.

• Day to day management of Sharon’s office team and the P&P Communications & C onnections Lead.

You r Background

We appreciate unique talents and diverse experiences, and we'd love it if you:

• Have significant experience in building effective relationships across an organisation, and be able to build and sustain external networks

• Are familiar with A gile methodology or have experience of establishing agile ways of working across teams

• Are comfortable and confident working with complex data sets with the ability to provide high quality insight in a clear and concise way

• Are curious , strategic and use the external landscape to shape ideas and concepts into detailed plans

• Someone who is proactive, highly organised and a natural organiser of others

• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, prioritising and making decisions in a fast-paced environment

• Happy challenging perceptions with a combination of judgment, facts and empathy, keeping a view on the long-term objectives of the business

• Are a natural collaborator, inspired to succeed as part of a high performing team

• Are an excellent communicator and natural storyteller with an ability to influence at all levels and be candid when needed

• Resilient and tenacious in a dynamic environment, keeping calm when things go wrong

• Someone who is tech and social media savvy and feel s confident sharing points of view externally

• Able to deal with the most confidential data and be trusted to be discrete at all times

Experience in Human Resources and/or Real Estate is preferred . Location and travel

This role will be based in one of our P&P hubs (Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh, or London) with travel for specific activity as required .

Let’s transform Lloyds Banking Group Together

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and help us transform? Then we can't wait to meet you! Please share your CV and covering letter with why you think you're the perfect fit for this role.

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.

If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.

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

Apply today and find out more.