Programme Manager - Inclusive Transformation

JOB TITLE: Programme Manager - Inclusive Transformation

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £59,850  - £66,500

LOCATION: Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, or Leeds

HOURS: 35 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

We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues love to work, can be themselves and thrive. Inclusion is a fundamental part of building our high-performance culture. We want to maximise the potential of all our people, empowering them to perform at their best, and deliver at pace for our customers.  You’ll be an experienced Programme Manager, that’s used to leading and co-ordinating a large portfolio of activity. You’ll work across the Group Inclusion leadership team to agree their priority areas, ensuring good meeting cadence and that our activity is co-ordinated, delivered on time and within budget. This is a pivotal role in orchestrating and delivering the Group’s inclusion strategy, ensuring that DEI programmes are aligned with business priorities, embedded effectively across functions, and deliver measurable impact

What will I be doing?

• Lead overall programme portfolio of activity, collaborating with the Group Inclusion leadership team to agree core priorities, based on insight and ‘Must Wins’, and create project cadence within the team to maintain progress against these

• Produce high quality communications and reporting on the overall programme, suitable for the People and Places (P&P)  Executive Committee , GEC, P&P wide, and the wider team.

• Support our team to transition to agile ways of working, aligned to the wider Group ways of working

• Manage budgets, resources, and risks associated with inclusion initiatives

• Use insights to inform continuous improvement and decision-making

• Understand, embrace and be able to select with confidence market leading tools and methods to deliver our DEI programme of activity

• Plan multiple priorities, adapting to change and delivering at pace

• Build, maintain, assess and interrogate diversity data and programme data and KPIs to report on the programme success.

• Achieve planned commitments by developing short-term and/or medium-term team activity plans aligned to our core DEI Priorities and be confident in keeping the team on track with deliverables

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Programme Management: Uses expertise to act as the organisational authority on managing programmes within desired cost, time, and quality parameters. Is experienced in applying the key principles of programme management, sharing best practice and capturing lessons learnt

• Organisational Awareness: Manoeuvres comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organisational dynamics. For example, knows when to use power and how to use influence to advance the organisations and team priorities and positively influence its direction. Navigates political currents inside and outside the organisation with tact and credibility.

• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers timely and regular communications that convey clear expectations of program goals, priorities, deliverables and helps minimise misunderstanding. Delivers messages confidently and effectively to all levels of the organisation, creates forums for people to express themselves openly and regularly. Uses clear and effective writing skills to inform and motivate stakeholders.

• Agile: Has experience of supporting teams to adopt agile methodology and ways of working. Is able to identify and introduce efficiencies in projects and ways of working. And expert in Jira and/or similar software used for programme management

• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple partners. For example, provides guidance so that others understand the needs of different partners and can balance them appropriately. Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Makes sure people understand and adhere to ethical standards when working with partners; models and ensures cross-cultural sensitivity.​

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.