Job title:Social Sustainability Manager
Location:Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester or London
Salary: £60,000 pro-rata
Hours:Part time – 21- 28 hours
Working Pattern:Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending 40% of your time at our above offices.
About this opportunity:
A phenomenal part time job share opportunity to join the Social Sustainability team in Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) during an exciting phase of growth and development as we support the Group’s purpose of Helping Britain Prosper.
The team’s mission is to “Break down socio-economic barriers impacting the UK’s under-served business owner communities and groups”. We do this by developing strategies, propositions, programmes and partnerships to deliver fair and equitable outcomes.
This role is about improving access to finance and business support for disabled, Black, and women-owned businesses by developing better products and services that in turn, will benefit all.
What you’ll be doing:
* Focussing primarily on the disabled entrepreneurs’ agenda, you'll be designing and delivering impactful data-driven propositions that support under-served business owner communities and in turn help break down access to finance barriers for our whole customer base.
* Working with a variety of business owner communities, external partners and internal stakeholders to agitate for change, helping ensure our products and services are accessible and inclusive by design.
* Helping Lloyds build on its role championing systemic change through government backed initiatives such as the Lilac Review and Disability Finance Code for Entrepreneurship
* Supporting the wider Social Sustainability team across other programmes and initiatives as our strategy evolves.
Why Lloyds Banking Group:
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!
What you’ll need:
* Financial products & services –Understanding financial principles, recognising barriers for under-served business communities, using data to advocate for process improvements. Knowledge of accessibility best practices in finance, communications and service delivery would make an outstanding candidate.
* Collaboration and communication –excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present sophisticated information in a clear and concise manner. Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships and influence internal and external collaborators at all levels. Effective at working closely with multiple collaborator groups to advocate for change and to hold teams accountable for delivery.
* Project management –shown ability to lead projects from inception to completion, including planning, budgeting and risk management. Experience using agile methodologies.
* Problem-solving & critical thinking –ability to identify and analyse problems, develop creative solutions and make informed decisions. Able to navigate complex challenges and drive meaningful change. Comfortable starting with a blank page and building new propositions from scratch.
* Sustainability expertise –understanding of social impact measurement and customer inclusion principles. Ability to use socio-economic arguments to improve opportunities for under-served business communities.
* Adaptability & resilience –works effectively under pressure, thrives amidst business transformation. Motivated by driving positive change and purpose-led when advocating for the needs of under-served business communities.
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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
We’d love to hearfrom you!
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