Managing Director, Lending & Credit Transformation, Portfolio Management

Job Title: Managing Director, Lending & Credit Transformation, Portfolio Management

Location: London

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 our London office.

About this Opportunity:

This is a rare and high impact opportunity to join our Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business as the Managing Director for Lending and Credit Transformation. Working closely with our platform teams, you'll be the CIB business lead on the critical multi‑year initiative to redesign the systems, data and infrastructure that support our lending, credit and risk distribution journeys. With CIB set to materially increase revenues over the next five years, you’ll shape how we evolve our platforms and processes to support this growth at scale while improving speed, accuracy and risk management for our clients.

At Lloyds Banking Group we serve some of the UK and Europe’s largest corporate clients and our purpose is to Help Britain Prosper. CIB brings together leading expertise in transaction banking, debt financing and risk management. In this newly created role you’ll join the Portfolio Management senior leadership team, working at the heart of our transformation agenda with operations, credit risk, platforms and finance to build the future of our lending and credit capabilities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the Lending and Credit Transformation initiative, setting the strategy for the end to end infrastructure and technology required to support CIB’s growth
• Define and, working with our platform teams, implement a common data framework for lending and credit, including data standards, ownership and sourcing
• Create asset management functionality to strengthen risk distribution across SRTs, CRI and third party partnerships
• Build enhanced Portfolio Management capability by integrating internal and external data to support better risk and position management
• Oversee the implementation of recommendations from the Oliver Wyman review of our lending and credit journeys
• Collaborate with senior partners across Operations, Credit, Risk, Platforms and Finance to deliver a redesigned infrastructure which significantly improves efficiency, transparency and our risk and control environment

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:

• Deep experience in lending and credit with strong understanding of products, risk and client types
  A proven ability to lead large scale change across complex environments
• Strong strategic planning skills with the ability to design and deliver a long term platform vision
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills at senior levels
• Solid working knowledge of technology platforms, operations, credit and finance
• A high energy leader who thrives on challenge, inspires teams and embraces ambitious transformation

About Working For Us:

Our ambition is to be the top tier 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. Join us and grow with purpose!