Senior Manager, Portfolio Insights

Working Pattern: We work in a hybrid fashion as part of adapting our ways of working and ongoing review of business needs, enabling us to connect with each other better and collaborate and innovate effectively. This involves spending at least two days per week presently, or 40% of our time, at one of the team hubs. The team is based in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, and Bristol.

As a Senior Manager in Portfolio Insights, you'll get:

The chance to work directly with Senior Leadership across the business to identify issues and develop recommendations to drive improvements across the Group.

The opportunity to shape and influence the delivery of the Group’s strategy, getting involved with a variety of different activities, and supporting various platforms to improve alignment ensuring that benefits are realised.

Exposure to a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels from across the Group, providing a brilliant opportunity for learning and personal development.

What you'll do:

• Directly support the Head of Portfolio Insights & Management to understand the composition of the portfolio, develop rich insight on the Group Change Portfolio, join the dots and close any gaps with appropriate intervention activities.
• Through business unit and platform engagements, define portfolio plans, understand delivery risks and impact to strategic commitments.
• Coordinate across multiple teams to develop short and medium-term view that will help the organisation achieve its priorities and fulfil its business plans.
• Explore hotspots, identify underlying challenges in the change portfolio, acting to remove constraints and allow more effective delivery in across the portfolio and our platforms.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone, including you.

About you:

We're looking for a Portfolio Management senior leader, with a deep understanding of programme and project delivery in an Agile model, who can identify and articulate the challenges and risks involved with the delivery of value through initiatives.

You'll need to have experience in either delivering in an Agile environment or managing an Agile Portfolio, and although a Financial Services background is not essential, the ability to work in changing, fast paced, regulated and complex environment similar to Lloyds Banking Group is essential.

You'll also need:

• Proven ability to engage and effectively build credibility with senior audiences, and evidence of building strong, enduring and trust-based relationships.
• A self-starter with an ability to learn, quickly absorb new information and critically evaluate a broad range of issues, and comfortable quickly moving from topic to topic.
• An exceptional problem solver, who can think critically and breakdown complexity into logical structure, whilst understanding the strategic big picture.
• Comfortable with data and able to analyse, consolidate and synthesise data to drive insight. Competent in using Excel to process data. Ideally experienced in using PowerBI.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.