Executive Assistant

Job title: Executive Assistant

Location: Leeds or Edinburgh

Salary: £76,194 - £89,640

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our above offices.

About this opportunity:

Are you energised by working at the heart of a fast-paced, strategic environment? We’re looking for an Executive Assistant to provide direct support and counsel to the Director of D2C Investments, being responsible for the management of their office and enabling delivery of the digital strategy and platform goals.

This is a unique opportunity to work closely with senior leadership, shaping decisions, coordinating priorities, and ensuring the smooth running of operations across the team. You’ll be a trusted advisor and operational anchor, bringing clarity, pace, and purpose.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the Executive Office: Coordinate planning, ensuring priorities are aligned, structured, and delivered with pace.
• Support strategic decision-making: Provide input and challenge to influence decisions, create ExCo and Board materials, and keep the Director advised of emerging issues—always with a customer-focused perspective.
• Lead governance and committee outputs: Prepare and coordinate impactful papers for the Insurance Board, Insurance Performance Committee, and other IP&I Committees, ensuring quality contributions and timely follow-ups.
• Act as a trusted advisor: Support the Director and wider team by triaging priorities, maintaining relationships across the Group, and helping navigate a complex, fast-moving environment.
• Ensure strategic risk alignment: Monitor and support alignment of D2C initiatives with Group risk appetite, identifying and mitigating deviations where needed.
• Drive operational excellence: Oversee internal and external communications, coordinate incident responses, and use data and research to support strategic decisions and reinforce the Director’s vision and brand.

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:

• Executive Office experience: You've supported senior leaders in a strategic Executive Office or similar setting.
• Exceptional communication skills: You can simplify complex information and craft clear, compelling narratives for ExCo, Board, and cross-functional audiences.
• Strong organisational capability: You're experienced in running shifting priorities, tight deadlines, and ambiguity, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of papers, updates, and actions.
• Critical thinking and analytical insight: You can use using data and research to shape decisions, challenge assumptions, and connect the dots across initiatives.
• Relationship-building and influence: You're comfortable engaging and building trust with partners at all levels, acting as a connector across teams and functions.
• Collaborative approach: You believe in “we” more than “I”—enabling others to deliver more by coordinating, advising, and simplifying rather than directly owning every task.

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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!