Senior DE&I Manager (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

We advocate inclusive behaviour and want to create an environment where all colleagues feel included and empowered to be their best. This role is responsible for implementing and evolving our DE&I strategy across IP&I and reporting progress to the Executive Committee and Insurance Board. The role sits within the Group DE&I Team, part of the LBG People & Places function.,

• Are you passionate about inclusion and building a workforce that reflects the society we serve?


• Have you got experience in designing and delivering strategic DE&I activity that harnesses all aspects of diverse thinking and experiences?


• Are you a data-led leader who is comfortable providing expert consultancy and challenge to business executives?


If the answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Insurance, Pensions & Investments business!

What you'll be doing

• Reporting to the Group DE&I Director and working with the IP&I People Director, and other Business Executives you'll enable the desired DE&I outcomes across IP&I.



• Implementing and evolving the IP&I DE&I strategy using agile ways of working, partnering across the business to deliver against our established set of targets.



• Analysing DE&I data and insight to identify DE&I challenges and solutions, telling the story to colleagues, leadership, and Board, and building the right support for interventions.



• Providing expert consultancy to the business leadership teams and building the capability across the business leaders to enable real advocacy around DE&I.



• Delivering considerable programmes of upskill and support for key segments of our business to tangibly grow our pipeline of diverse talent internally.



• Using external perspectives and partnerships to design market-leading DE&I activity, contributing to thought-leadership externally and bringing the best in-house.



• Line managing our DE&I Manager for IP&I, setting and supporting their strategic delivery priorities through regular check-ins and development conversations



• Managing our community of DE&I volunteers and senior allies, ensuring that activity aligns to the DE&I strategy and Group best practice.



• Managing risks across the DE&I agenda and supporting the business and Group to mitigate these risks.


What you'll need

• Personal drive to use your leadership skills to enable change



• Specialist DE&I expertise and delivery experience
  
  Strong data capabilities to analyse and present data to senior audiences



• Excellent partner engagement and influence, right up to Insurance Board level



• Governance and project management skills to deliver for impact



• Commercial mentality to think strategically and quantify the benefits of DE&I



• Curiosity to challenge the norm and find better ways of doing things



• Ability to build meaningful relationships with all colleagues at every level



• Excellent communication and storytelling skills



• Ability to inspire others to support your plans and be led by you



• Brilliant emotional resilience and prioritisation skills
  
  At Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), we're driven by a clear purpose - to help Britain prosper. Across LBG, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.


Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) division of LBG helps more than 10 million personal customers with their long-term protection, retirement, and investment needs. We do this through a range of products including life cover, critical illness, income protection, workplace and individual pensions, annuities as well as savings and investment products., 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. 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