Senior Manager Reporting & Business Enablement - #1774708

Job Title: Senior Manager Sustainability Reporting & Business Enablement, Group Sustainable Business

Salary: £83,411 - £98,130 per annum

Location: Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds

Hours: Full Time

Working Pattern: Our working 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

This is an outstanding opportunity to bring your proven experience in sustainability to Lloyds Banking Group. You'll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions and contribute to a brighter future!

Join the Group Sustainable Business (GSB) team at the core of the Group, driving key sustainability activity within the Group to Help Britain Prosper.

As Senior Manager, Sustainability Reporting & Business Enablement, you'll be:

• Providing input into key sustainability initiatives working collaborating across various business units to ensure our delivery is in alignment with the Group's sustainability strategy.

• Crafting the narrative and positioning of our sustainability performance in our external reporting alongside key collaborators.

• Supporting the development, implementation and delivery of a sustainability materiality process aligned with international standards.

• Demonstrating your sustainability expertise, experience and insights through input into internal processes, frameworks, policies, and process efficiencies.

• Providing oversight of our executive level sustainability committee, ensuring effective and organized committee processes and papers.

• Supporting the Group to continue to embed its principles of doing business in a responsible, balanced, and inclusive way.

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:

We're looking for a driven individual with experience in sustainability reporting, frameworks, and controls who would like to take their career to the next stage. Is this you? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Specifically, we're looking for:

• Experience in a management role within sustainability consulting/advisory, sustainability assurance, corporate sustainability or ESG risk management.

• Experience in developing and implementing frameworks and controls related to the management of sustainability programs.

• In-depth knowledge of external sustainability standards and frameworks across reporting and ESG risk management (such as ISSB, CSRD, CSDDD, SASB, The Equator Principles, Principles for Responsible Banking, UNGP's) and emerging sustainability requirements for the UK.

• An understanding and experience of sustainability issues and how they impact on business operations, ideally with financial sector experience.

• Outstanding and demonstrable experience in stakeholder engagement, relationship building, and collaboration.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely. Strong attention to detail and dedication to upholding high presentation standards.

And any experience of these would be useful:

• Strong working knowledge and experience in working with leading external bodies such as UNGC, IFRS, WEF, EU EFRAG, and UNEP-FI. An established relationship with key bodies is considered a plus.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, 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 keen on becoming part of our Group Sustainable Business team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.