Business Manager

In Heritage Platform we're responsible for the management and migration from our legacy products and technical estates. This critical Platform has a diverse and exciting span of significant deliverables which are key to the overall strategy of Insurance, Pensions & Investments.

As Business Manager, you'll drive the Heritage Platform in achieving efficiency, through effective business reporting to drive focus on what matters, optimising the governance framework in which the Platform operates, and promoting the platform story, to support the teams to deliver against their Objectives and Key Results.

Day to day, this role focuses on managing / supporting governance processes across the Platform, acting as a main point of contact for key partners both internal and external to the platform.

What you'll be doing:

• Oversight of programme Governance and projects / initiatives being developed ensuring we remain fully aligned with all Group Policies.


• Operational Design management including headcount and vacancy management


• Identifying and planning key governance activity.


• Driving organisation, facilitation and co-ordination across the Platform to enable clear and balanced decision making at all levels.


• Using your strong organisation skills to ensure timely and accurate delivery of weekly reports, committee papers and other ad hoc information as needed.


• Supporting key processes around Resourcing, Risks, Dependencies and utilising change tools such as Jira, CORE and QBR App.


• Deputising for Senior Business Manager and communicating with senior team members.
  
  Background: Experience as a Business Management/PMO, including Governance, reporting (RAIDs, Actions, Decisions) and resourcing.


• Analysis: Proven experience of interpreting a range of data, making sense of complex information and presenting data in an appropriate format for multiple partners. Analysing key themes and providing insight for decision-making.


• Change: An ability to handle ambiguity and balance changing priorities, with excellent judgement, to understand impacts on the team's priorities.


• Development: Comfortable working independently and using your own initiative. Committed to self-development and supporting that of others, actively seeking ways to develop and be challenged.
  
  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.

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