• Job Description

  Req#: 128451

  End Date

  Friday 30 May 2025

  Salary Range

  £0 - £0

  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: Director, Corporate Sustainability Advisory
  LOCATION(S): London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester
  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

  We have a great opportunity for a Director to join our Sustainability and Client Advisory (S&CA) team. You'll take a lead role in supporting clients to deliver their sustainability objectives, and be a trusted advisor, leading ground-breaking transformation in this space.

  Your responsibilities will include:

  • This is a front office role, leading on sustainability engagement with clients in the Infrastructure, Energy and Industrials (manufacturing and related) sectors with an advisory mindset, originating across the products & propositions of the Group.
  • Own the successful origination and execution of sustainable finance opportunities including a clear focus on the energy transition.
  • Provide clients with market leading insights on the topic of sustainability with a deep knowledge of technical matters.
  • Maintain a strong understanding of cross-sector trends in Sustainability, ESG and climate change, and be able to influence and collaborate with clients and key partners, both internally and externally.
  • Develop and deliver sustainability strategies with the identified sectors working with Product and Coverage to achieve across financial, purpose and people scorecard
  • Develop productive and positive relationships with external partners in the market representing LBG at the highest levels at industry events and with clients as we transform our business.
  • Lead research on clients, markets and competitors using ESG data and other information and sources to present to clients in a clear and compelling way.
  • Provide thought leadership in the creation of marketing materials, pitch-books and reports, to ensure successful promotion of the bank and the team’s ESG activities both internally and externally to develop an industry leading profile in this area.

  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:

  • Passion and expertise relating to the energy transition and it’s application in the infrastructure, energy and industrials sectors.
  • In-depth knowledge relevant international, national and sector specific sustainability trends.
  • A proven record of delivering sustainability linked or use of proceeds financings or a demonstrative track record of origination in a client facing environment.
  • Existing external profile in Sustainability and clear passion for sustainability.
  • A growth mindset that is solutions focused with well cultivated business judgement and high ethical and professional standards.
  • Proven track record of coordinating multiple partners to deliver in sophisticated and evolving environments.

  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

  This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

  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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