Senior Manager, Environment - Nature

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Environment - Nature

SALARY: £76,194 - £89,640

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least

two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this Opportunity

This is an opportunity to bring your experience and technical expertise on nature to Lloyds Banking Group where you’ll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions!

As Senior Manager, Nature you’ll be in a team of sustainability specialists responsible for shaping the Group-wide approach to nature, providing strategic advice based on specialist nature-related knowledge, market insights and trends.

You’ll be part of the Group Sustainable Business team which sits at the centre of Lloyds Banking Group and plays an important role in enabling Lloyds Banking Group’s purpose ambitions and activities which are critical to the delivery of the Group’s strategy and helping Britain Prosper. These include defining the ambitions and enablement actions across key areas such as affordable homes, financial empowerment, regional development, transition to net zero and protecting nature.

As Senior Manager, Nature, you’ll be:

• Providing guidance to the Group on the assessment and management of nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities and mobilising an internal approach to ensure continued alignment with external frameworks.

• Maintaining a strong relationship with the Environment-Climate team to ensure closely linked climate and nature activities are appropriately sequenced and coordinated.

• Drawing on leading science-based frameworks and initiatives from leading external bodies such as TNFD, SBTN, IPBES, WBCSD, WEF, and UNEP-FI to ensure our nature-related risk assessments are based on the best available data and metrics and fit-for-purpose in managing the Group’s portfolio.

• Maintaining excellent relationships with key partners across the Group to collaborate on developing and mobilising our nature-related risk assessments.

• Translating emerging and existing external nature requirements and determining the impact on the Group’s business models and business areas, as well as delivering innovative insights to the industry through a strong external network.

• Engaging, as appropriate, in leading industry initiatives on nature (e.g., with UNEP FI, SBTN, TNFD, WBCSD, etc.).

• Contributing to the development of the Group’s capabilities on nature, by sharing your knowledge and expertise on key nature-related frameworks and expertise on the state of nature, pressures on nature and dependencies on ecosystem services with colleagues across all levels.

• Leading, empowering and developing colleagues to help build a high-performing team, encouraging and embedding new, agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you’ll need:

We're looking for a strong leader with a detailed understanding of nature-related issues and how they apply to financial institutions. If this is you, we'd like to hear from you!

Specifically we're looking for someone that:

• Has a deep understanding of global, regional and national nature-related frameworks, policies and initiatives and ability to effectively translate the impacts, risks and dependencies for the financial services industry.

• Has experience in assessment and management of nature-related issues, including clear understanding of relevant data, metrics and interconnections between nature and climate and social issues and demonstrated ability to co-develop nature-related risk assessments, including nature-related scenarios and stress testing.

• Has the ability to conduct quantitative analysis that is able to extract actionable insights from external and internal data and reports to make informed decisions and provide strategic advice. Ability to guide business divisions in navigating nature-related topics and their alignment to strategic objectives.

• Has a strong network and connectivity with leading external bodies and organisations such as TNFD, SBTN, IPBES, WBCSD, WEF, WWF and UNEP-FI.

• Objectively defines and resolves a matter, improvement or situation that is difficult or undesirable. Uses information analysis and scenario comparison, applying logic, prioritisation and creative thinking, to formulate judgments and solutions that lead to effective outcomes.

• Has a track record of identifying, understanding and successfully leading senior level relationships with individuals or groups who have a vested interest in the outcome and the ability to apply insights and experience to organise work so that the most important and urgent matter is prioritised.

• Speaks confidently and writes clearly and concisely to convey information accurately, demonstrates good listening, thinking about what and how to communicate.

It would also be beneficial to have experience in:

• Specific areas related to nature, for example, water management, soil management or the climate-nature nexus.

• Leading high impact teams with differing skills and demonstrating strong leadership, including working at pace with a clear sense of prioritisation

• Coaching to go faster by demonstrating dedication to building teams with skills aligned to strategy and creating new and better ways to embed change at pace.

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 about being part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!