Skills Proposition Lead

JOB TITLE: Skills Proposition Lead

SALARY: £78,098 - £101,068

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Halifax. Edinburgh or 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

Our purpose is to create an organisation fit for the future, set up with the right people, the right skills and organised in the most efficient and effective way to deliver our transformation.

This means becoming an agile, skills-based organisation where colleagues are empowered to grow and learn, developing skills for today and for the future.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Skills Proposition Lead to own the Group skills vision, strategy and framework. Inspired by external next practice and informed by Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) insight and our ‘skills engine’ intelligence, this team design and deploy market-leading propositions, driving measurable uplift in skills proficiency. This isn’t just another learning and development role. It’s about strategically activating skills to drive organisational agility, capability and new ways of working, all at pace.

You’ll be Responsible for:

• Setting and maintaining the Group skills vision, strategy and framework, informed by external best practice and future insights; align senior stakeholders to a clear, future focused direction

• Defining, maintaining and embedding a future focused skills taxonomy and AI-aligned job architecture, informing organisation design in partnership with the Organisation Effectiveness team and People Directors / Partners

• Owning the Group development proposition and colleague experience, stewarding and creating impact through our “Growth Without Limits” employee value proposition

• Defining and deploying compelling, impactful skilling propositions that address strategic capability gaps as well as creating mobility and talent density.

• Leading engagement with our recognised Unions via the Skills Council, where we collaborate on upskilling efforts, including through our Skills Champions

• Determining the Group’s intentional learning culture and metrics that evidence progress; hold leaders to account for impact.

• Defining the skills development experience and technology / infrastructure to enable it

• Activating skills at scale through campaigns, nudges, and personalised pathways including through our Skills Academies

• Working with the People Data Hub team to establish and leverage a robust skills ‘data lake’ to inform SWP, power colleague journeys, and address proficiency gaps

• Identifying and leveraging a range of metrics / indicators to determine skills development proposition impact as well as operational efficiency Championing the reskilling proposition, optimising future role opportunities across the Group where pathways can be deployed to equip colleagues to be ‘bench’ ready

• Selecting and optimising core 3rd party content providers; drive utilisation and roadmap alignment

• Adopting and embedding agile ways of working to accelerate delivery and impact.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Strategic influencing: Shapes and challenges organisational thinking by positioning, and getting commitment to, skills being a critical lever for organisational success.

• Skills Development: Design and deliver solutions that build skills across a colleague’s full career journey.

• Commercial judgement: Turn internal and external information into clear, actionable insight.

• Creative thinking: Spot opportunities to simplify, automate and modernise through experimentation, external insight and competitor awareness.

• Data-driven decision making: Interpret data, translate it into insight, and apply it confidently in day-to-day decisions.

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!