Head of Strategic

End Date

Saturday 25 January 2025

Salary Range

£101,932 - £119,920

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Are you looking for a new challenge in a role that truly aligns to our purpose of helping Britain prosper? Are you bold? Do you challenge the norm? Are you an inspiring leader who is curious about technology and has a passion for mortgages intermediaries? If the answer is yes then this could be the role for you

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Head of Strategic & Technology Partnerships

SALARY: From £101,392 depending on location

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Halifax or Newport

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to be part of the award winning LBG Mortgages Intermediaries team leading the Strategic & Technology Partnerships team for the Group.

You’ll oversee and support your team with the development and execution of strategic plans with the UKs largest introducers of mortgages, as well as lead and drive forward the strategic plan with our housing & mortgages technology partners.

You’ll identify and form new strategic partnerships to get closer to the customer, benefitting both Intermediaries and our direct channels. Having market knowledge is critical for this role, and you’ll use this knowledge and your established relationships to inform and challenge LBG strategic plans to ensure alignment and focus for the Intermediary market.

The location for this role is flexible, although there is significant travel required across the UK.

On a day to day basis, this role will include:

- Leading a proactive contact strategy for both prospective technology and existing partners in order to support the Industry and the Bank in identifying and optimising opportunities.
- Managing, motivating, developing and driving National account relationships to understand the distribution and technology strategy, turning insight into business delivery and competitive advantage.
- Building and continually improving relationships at all levels between National Accounts and Lloyds Banking Group.
- Supporting the delivery of key strategic work packages including technology and sustainability, ensuring the initiatives are delivered to the desired standard that are fit for the intermediary market.
- Leading the market with thought leadership content that supports LBG’s Housing Strategy.
- Managing and maintaining relationships with key internal support areas, e.g. Products, Marketing, Risk, Finance to enable business area objectives and value creation.

About us

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

You’ll have great stakeholder management skills and the ability to confidently influence senior partners across the intermediary market, you’ll also regularly represent the Group externally at industry events, participate on panels and present innovative updates at industry conferences.

We’re looking for someone who is an experienced and inspirational leader in technology, who will innovate and inspire their teams to deliver results. You'll also need
- Knowledge of the Intermediary market
- Strategic thinker and ability to work with ambiguity
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to find solutions to new and emerging issues
- Influence business decisions, using data to design and deliver customer focussed propositions

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.

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%
- 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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