Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Manager Fleet Strategy - Transport
LOCATION: National (Flexible)
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in one of our office hubs mentioned above.
What you'll be doing
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Transport within Lloyds Banking Group. You’ll lead the strategy and oversight of our Fleet lending portfolio, supporting daily rental and contract hire Operators as part of our Consumer Distribution business. As we evolve beyond Finance and Leasing, you’ll help us strengthen our market position and support the UK’s transition to Net Zero through our Black Horse and Lex Autolease brands.
You’ll lead and develop a team of fleet specialists, drive sustainable growth, embed a strong risk culture, and collaborate widely across Transport, Retailers, OEM partners and internal Distribution sales teams. You’ll also oversee the performance, governance and financial appraisal of a significant lending portfolio, ensuring robust systems, controls and processes are in place to support transformation. If you’re motivated by high-impact work with real breadth, you’ll thrive in this environment.
Our vision is to evolve beyond Finance and Leasing to become a market leader in Transport in the UK, and we have the investment and backing to take us there.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
Essential Skills
1. Minimum 3+ years’ experience in fleet, contract hire, leasing, mobility, or automotive finance, with strong understanding of B2B vehicle funding models
2. Minimum 5+ years’ experience managing large commercial portfolios or strategic B2B accounts within financial services, asset finance, mobility, or automotive sectors
3. Proven experience leading and developing teams (3+ direct reports), including coaching, performance management and delivery against commercial targets
4. Demonstrable experience assessing funding proposals, analysing financial performance, or managing lending/asset portfolios, balancing commercial growth with risk
5. Experience engaging senior stakeholders (sales, credit, risk, commercial partners) to deliver complex commercial outcomes
6. Strong ability to utilize data, reporting and portfolio analytics to track performance, identify opportunities and support strategic decision-making
Any experience of these would be useful
7. Established relationships across the UK fleet, leasing, mobility or automotive ecosystem (fleet operators, leasing providers, OEMs)
8. Experience with wholesale, fleet or asset-backed finance structures in banking, captive finance or leasing organisations
9. Experience contributing to new product launches, market expansion or business transformation programmes within financial services or automotive sectors
We know great talent comes from many backgrounds. Even if you don’t meet all criteria, if you have relevant transferable skills, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
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 provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, including:
10. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
11. An annual performance‑related bonus
12. Share schemes including free shares
13. Benefits you can tailor to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
14. 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
15. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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.