Programme Office Manager, Embark Pensions

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Programme Office Manager, Embark Pensions (FTC/Secondment)

SALARY: £59,850 to £66,500

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-Time, 12-month Fixed Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of your time at one of our office sites

About this Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Embark Pensions team, co-ordinating the progress and completion of multiple activities supporting our customer operational teams.

Working in a fast-paced environment, you'll work closely with our senior team, balancing multiple actions to contribute to successful outcomes and collaborate with internal partners to help complete actions supporting business delivery. With strong communication skills you'll review papers and other communications, providing clear guidance on what's required and by when.

Using data you'll add clear value through insight and provide valuable reporting and updates to our team and partners. Understanding processes, you'll contribute to success by simplifying processes and identifying ways to improve how decisions are made moving forward.

What You'll Be Doing

The role involves:

• Creating and maintaining a robust framework to support successful delivery.

• Using data to providing insightful updates for regular and ad hoc reporting.

• Reviewing and challenging business reporting to provide value adding analysis.

• Delivering multiple small projects to support business objectives and goals.

• Collaborating with and influencing others to remove blockers and simplify processes.

• Identifying the root cause of issues and sharing insight to improve future decision making.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you'll find them all here.

What You'll Need

• You'll be highly organised, a self-starter who works with minimum supervision.

• Experience of Director or Programme Offices, balancing and delivering multiple priorities within short timescales.

• Experience of producing and reviewing data for multiple audiences.

• Experience of making processes clearer and simpler, delivering better outcomes for customers.

• You'll be a strong communicator experienced at collaborating with a wide range of partners.

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. 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.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.