End Date Monday 17 February 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. Job Description JOB TITLE: Assistant Communications Manager SALARY: £39,825 - £44,250 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, 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 Are you a curious, creative, and organised individual with a passion for finding and sharing stories? Do you have a keen interest in news, current affairs, and the world of consumer retail banking? Do you have experience in internal communications, media relations, public affairs, or digital and social media? If so, we have a brilliant opportunity for you to join our Group Corporate Affairs team as an Assistant Communications Business Partner supporting our Consumer Relationships business. You’ll work across the iconic brands of Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, supporting communications that span our mobile, digital, branch and telephone banking activities, alongside customer services, mass affluent and wealth, and our everyday banking propositions like current accounts and savings. You'll work closely with leaders, crafting compelling communications, and making substantial contributions to our organisation's growth and mission. If you’re ready to take on your next communications role in a business that’s transforming, continue reading No two days are the same, but here’s an idea of what you might get up to … Start the morning off with a collaborative thinking session with your colleagues. Together, you discuss upcoming initiatives, proposition launches, and critical communication opportunities. Feel motivated as you share ideas and insights, helping to build a communications strategy and plan. Next, you dive into crafting an engaging agenda for a live broadcast that will launch to thousands of colleagues. You work closely with leaders, understanding their vision and translating it into a captivating storyline. With your excellent attention to detail, you ensure that the flow of the broadcast is flawless, coaching speakers on their presentation style and incorporating visual elements that will make everyone sit up and pay attention In the afternoon, you meet with a key stakeholder to discuss a new proposition and create a plan that aims to deliver strong media coverage and engages our colleagues. And, as the day winds down and you catch up on Teams and the inbox, you plan ahead for the next few days ahead. As a small team with a broad and ranging remit, there will be lots of opportunities for stretch and development. Day to day, you will: Collaborate with colleagues across Lloyds Banking Group consumer businesses to help develop integrated communication strategies and plans Get involved in delivering high impact, creative communications – from colleague communications and engagement through to the whole set of external communications Support communications campaigns through effective consumer PR activity, for some of the UK’s best known financial services brands Support the wider team in partnering our business areas and delivering impactful communication activity Why Lloyds Banking Group Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here. What you’ll need: Solid corporate communications skills – whether that’s one or more of internal communications, media relations, consumer PR, public affairs, or corporate social media and digital experience Ability to seek out a great story that can evidence our transformation, our strategy, and our support for customers Great stakeholder management skills at a range of levels Phenomenal attention to detail A passion for news and current affairs And any experience of these would be really useful but not essential: Events management experience – either colleague events and / or external events Microsoft Viva Engage suite, in particular Teams Live and Yammer Financial services experience or consumer / FMCG experience 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 If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. 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.