Senior Manager, Market Data (CIB)

Our Corporate Institutional Bank (CIB) is on a growth strategy, we're deepening our relationships with Clients, developing new propositions and in doing so we're Helping Britain Prosper by supporting some of the largest Businesses across the UK. Market Data is a broad term used in reference to financial information necessary for analysing, trading and accounting. We source this from external providers. Our Market Data team in the CIB Chief Operating Office plays a critical role in the execution of our strategy. We're responsible for the strategic management, provision and administration of Market data. The team looks to optimise relationships with the likes of London Stock Exchange Group and Bloomberg, identify new opportunities, capabilities and data to support our strategy and manages a large annual budget. The team is the centre of excellence for managing Market Data across Lloyds Banking Group ranging from:

• Administrative tasks to ensure colleagues have the correct licensing in place to payment of market data provider invoices.
• To supporting all the business areas across group with their market data requirement by providing expert advice that will be best suited to their needs and will drive the most value to the business
We have an amazing opportunity for you to lead this team of incredible Market Data specialists. Your role will be leading the Market Data team to complete a diverse set of business objectives requiring people leadership, problem solving and analytical capabilities. You'll be curious, analytical and passionate about finding solutions to sophisticated problems. Your motivation, behaviours, and drive to make a difference are the most important qualities that we're looking for, alongside your understanding and appreciation of market data or the markets space. What will you be doing?
• You'll engage with senior leaders and support influencing on strategic decisions, as well as collaborating closely with our external market data vendors directly. Reporting into the Service Delivery Director, you'll work closely together to shape the outputs of the team and will deputise for them when required.
• Take responsibility for developing and delivering a key element of the organisation's end to end management of market data
• Lead and deliver required outcomes for a portfolio of projects, while reporting to senior colleagues
• Identify and evaluate complex solutions against a variety of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs
• Lead and develop existing business relationships and engage with business leaders to understand long-term strategic challenges
• Implement a sustainable, cost-effective target operating model to support business needs, adapting as the business model evolves
• Maintain great relationships with key internal customers and act as their business partner
• Demonstrate continual awareness of industry and regulatory developments relevant to market data and the wider market applying your knowledge of the external environment, including regulatory landscape
  
  Key to this role is your relevant experience of Market Data and demonstrable evidence of the following key skills:
• Leadership: Highly motivated and driven to achieve individual and collective goals, with a keen focus on coaching and creating an inclusive working culture that ensures everyone can be themselves in a safe environment
• Analytical: Is a critical thinker and has a passion for problem solving, driving improvements, simplicity and automation
• Communication: Have fantastic interpersonal skills and able to effectively communicate ideas, issues and implications through storytelling and can distil and simplify complex messages into clear, concise communications that colleagues and senior leaders can understand
• Influence: Diplomacy and credibility in front of senior audiences with the ability to influence the right outcomes, providing healthy challenge where appropriate
• Risk Management: An understanding of the Group's risk strategy and frameworks with an ability to identify, articulate and handle risks associated with third parties (e.g. cyber, data and operational resilience).
  
  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 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
• 30 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.