Head of Brand Partnerships

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End date

Sunday 02 March 2025

Salary range

Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Head of Brand Partnerships

LOCATION(S): London, Bristol or Halifax

Salary: £104,992 - £146,650

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in one of our office sites mentioned above

About this opportunity

Your responsibility is to work alongside our Group Brand Director in developing and implementing brand partnerships and sponsorship strategies, with the goal of improving brand visibility and customer engagement for the bank.

You'll have a crucial role in driving value by establishing brand partnerships that align with the bank's brand positioning, business objectives, and customer insights. Leading the function to improve value through a balanced portfolio of brand partners.

This role requires a commercially astute leader with a proven track record in negotiating large scale strategic deals and leading complex collaborator relationships.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, constantly evolving business that's crafting finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and deliver Lloyds’ overarching brand partnership strategy across sponsorship, commercial and data partnerships, ensuring alignment with business, brand and marketing goals

  • Identify and evaluate potential brand partnerships that strengthen the bank's market position and provide measurable return on investment and value in line with each partner category.

  • Build a balanced portfolio to optimize brand exposure, customer value and financial outcomes

  • Coordinate and cultivate relationships, lead all aspects of brand partnerships throughout the entire lifecycle from idea generation and negotiation to implementation and performance evaluation.

  • Use data and insights to regularly evaluate the performance of individual brand partners as well as the overall portfolio, finding opportunities for optimization, realignment or growth.

  • Lead complex, high value negotiations to secure multifaceted, mutually beneficial agreements with clear critical metrics

  • Structure flexible, innovative agreements to address partner needs including co-branding opportunities, data sharing frameworks and revenue sharing models

  • Grow, develop and manage a high performing team of category specific specialists and partnership leads

  • Collaborate with cross functional teams including but not limited to Brands & Marketing, Legal, Compliance and Finance as well as BU’s and propositions

  • Monitor market trends to stay ahead of competitor activities and identify innovative opportunities.

What you’ll need

  • Proven track record in managing a diverse brand partnerships portfolio across sponsorship, commercial, data, media and technology – ideally within a banking or FS environment

  • Strong commercial competence with expertise in negotiating high value, large scale, complex, mutually beneficial agreements

  • Analytical approach with the ability to measure and articulate the value of brand partnerships, balancing short-term wins with long-term growth / value creation

  • Outstanding skills in managing collaborators, customers, partners, and team members. Able to influence at all levels and build strong, strategic relationships with senior leaders across partner organizations, ensuring alignment on long-term objectives.

  • Excellent leadership and team management abilities – strong track record in building and leading high performing teams

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 set diversity goals for senior roles early on, developed a menopause health package, and established 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 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

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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'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.