Head of Colleague Propositions Innovation  (Job Share Opportunity)

About this Opportunity

The Head of Colleague Propositions Innovation role offers the chance to develop market-leading propositions for 65k employees. It supports our EVP to attract diverse and skilled talent. You will jointly lead Colleague Propositions & Policy, sharing accountability for Colleague Policy Standards, risk controls and budgets - ensuring standards remain compliant, traceable to regulation and legislation, and effectively embedded across the Group. You will utilise technology to deliver automated, exciting and commercial propositions that deliver an enhanced global colleague experience.

You'll co-own the development and management of Group wide HR content, guidance and propositions that support colleagues and leaders across the organisation. This includes shaping areas such as hybrid working and Prosper HR knowledge content. While you won’t own the platforms themselves, your focus will be on ensuring clarity, simplicity and accountability across all colleague touchpoints.

You'll be responsible Group wide for our non reward HR policy standards; flexible working standards including hybrid working, family propositions, sickness and absence standards, holiday and leave arrangements, redundancy policy standard etc. In addition to our standards you'll also be accountable for the employment contracts across the Group.

You'll lead a team of innovators and technical experts based across our UK hubs. The team sits within the Culture, Leadership & Talent team in People & Places.

Key Priority Areas for 2026

The role is varied and priorities can change rapidly. This role requires someone who is adaptable and agile and very comfortable leading and providing clarity in times of ambiguity.

Our current priorities:

• Supporting colleague mobility by creating increased movement across roles, teams and business areas. Developing a suite of pathways that enable colleagues and business leaders to move from one role to another, collaborating with Strategic Workforce Planning, HR Legal, Skills and Learning, Risk, Recruitment and Reward.

• Designing healthy, structured exit pathways for colleagues ready for life after LBG including a bridge to retirement and/or for those pivoting into new careers.

• Transforming our E2E enterprise experience for sickness, absence and other types of leave.

• Leading our readiness and implementation of Employment Rights Act changes, building on the responsibility for change assessment, consultation and regulatory alignment. With particular focus on unfair dismissal, probation, protections for pregnant employees and flexible working. You'll co-ordinate activities across the Group throughout 2026 and 2027 including lobbying and collaborating with Government, CBI and UKTI, chairing Steering, attending RiskCo and ExCo to provide regular updates and risk assessments as well as delivering tangible colleague change.

Day to Day Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will blend strategic proposition innovation, policy simplification and automation, risk stewardship and hightrust stakeholder leadership across People & Places. You’ll help set direction, coach teams, allocate work to must win priorities, collaborate and ensure alignment with goals and Group strategy.

How You Will Lead

You'll act as a connective leader across the function—uplifting standards, shaping content, simplifying complexity, and resolving ambiguity. Together, you'll ensure that policy and colleague experience solutions remain practical, human centred and grounded in the culture we want to create. You'll be a HR SME protecting the Group, using your external network to support innovation and will increase automation, productivity and commerciality through everyday collaboration.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

What you'll need

• Innovation and problem solving

• Stakeholder Management

• Story telling

• Change delivery

• Employee/Customer experience

• Utilising internal and external networks/data/insights/benchmarking/research

• Commercial foresight

• AI and tech

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.