Investment Communications Manager

We have an exciting opportunity to join Lloyds Banking Group as an Investment Communications Manager within our Chief Investment Office. This role involves the creation of a variety of investment content for various group brands, including Scottish Widows. It relies on a good understanding of investment strategies and markets, our funds, key promotional messages, our Responsible Investment approach and emerging investment themes. You'll deliver insightful, high-quality content to support the promotion of our range of investment products across the Group and help raise the profile of senior investment team members externally. What you'll be doing:

• Deliver investment-themed articles, blogs, video scripts, social media posts and presentation decks for our external audiences; investment content to support marketing campaigns; collateral to support propositional changes.
• Work with Propositions, Distribution and, where appropriate, external partners to develop investment content to support the ongoing promotion of our funds. Feed into projects delivering investment change activity as a communications representative.
• Translate complex investment material into simple, engaging copy for consumer audiences. Ensuring communications consider customer and business objectives, with due regard to risk management and timely delivery.
• Ensure clear processes are in place to take and prioritise input from partners, working as required with other teams in Investments to consider and co-ordinate response.
• Operate within a defined risk framework, ensuring materials meet customer needs and embracing the principles of TCF, Consumer Duty and Conduct Risk.
• Through reading, attending meetings and talking to SMEs in the Chief Investment Office team and at our external fund manager partners, keep up to date with market developments and our business strategy, and convert this knowledge into ideas and activities that support our distribution strategy.
  
  Background in investment writing, financial copy writing, financial journalism or financial marketing.
• Experience in UK financial services/asset management.
• You'll have knowledge of Adviser, Employer and Customer channels.
• You'll have engaging writing skills and ability to generate content ideas.
  
  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