Strategic Projects Manager

End Date

Friday 07 November 2025

Salary Range

£59,850 - £66,500

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Insurance, Pensions and Investments (IP&I) as Strategic Projects Manager, coordinating activity across IP&I and the wider Group.

This role reports to our Strategic Projects Lead and is all about how we lead on and coordinate projects related to the transformation to become a customer centric organisation.

Job Description

Job title: Strategic Projects Manager, Insurance, Pensions & Investments

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £59,850 - £66,500

Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)

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:
 

In this role, you'll be responsible for managing and driving high-impact strategic projects that align with the organisation's goal of becoming a customer centric organisation and support our ambition of digitally transforming IP&I. This role involves leading cross-functional project teams, coordinating inputs and assessing data to build business cases, tell impactful stories and partner manage at the most senior levels to ensure projects are managed to successful outcomes.

What you'll be doing:

• Strategic Alignment: Develop project plans that support the organisation's long-term goals and priorities.

• Partner Engagement: Collaborate with senior leaders to align project outcomes with business needs and secure necessary support.

• Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance.

• Risk & Performance Management: Identify risks, implement mitigation strategies, and monitor progress against key performance indicators.

• Continuous Improvement: Promote process enhancements and embed best practices to drive efficiency and innovation.

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:

• Background in Financial Services: Demonstrated experience working in a financial services, regulated environment, ideally within Insurance.

• Leadership & Team Management: Strong ability to lead, empower, and manage cross-functional teams to achieve project goals.

• Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Skilled at aligning projects with business objectives and making data-informed decisions.

• Communication & Partner Engagement: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.

• Project Management Expertise: Proven track record of successfully delivering strategic projects across complex environments, with experience in using project management tools and methodologies to drive efficiency and results.

• Adaptability & Multitasking: Comfortable managing multiple priorities in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

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 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.

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