Description
JOB TITLE: Strategic Analytics Manager
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £59,850 - £73,150
LOCATION: Chester, Edinburgh, Leeds or Newport,
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
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
We’re offering you the unique opportunity to empower customers through innovative, responsible lending and market-leading personal loan solutions. We’re the UK’s #1 provider of personal loans: 24% market share, £11bn customer balances.
Come and join a dynamic, fast-paced team leading transformation and digitisation for Lloyds Banking Group. Where we’re committed to sustainable growth across our budget operating plan.
We’re looking for analytical problem solver, a creative thinker and a hardworking collaborator who thrives on delivering in a fast-paced environment. You’ll shape the strategic direction of the UKs largest consumer finance provider. Lead a high-performing culture to maximise demand generation across our four brands – Lloyds, Halifax, BoS and MBNA and via our own and third-party digital channels, delivering fair value for customers and ensuring responsible lending within risk appetite.
Our Commercial & Pricing teams optimises the financial performance and strategic objectives of the Loans business. As a Strategic Analytics Manager, you’ll provide 0ptimise business outcomes and strategic objectives for the Loans business whilst Providing actionable insights to drive commercial performance and proposition development.
What will I be doing?
1. Leading delivery and optimisation of the commercial plan, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic investment initiatives
2. Driving commercial performance reviews, synthesising trading data and performance sensitivities
3. Apply market knowledge to shape the Loans commercial agenda
4. Ensure robust commercial risk management, finding opportunities and mitigating risks
5. Building and maintain strong customer relationships, including third-party suppliers
6. Championing innovation, employing advanced analytics, AI, and experimentation
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re not just another bank, we’re innovative, fast-changing, and using finance as a force for good. We empower people to innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose. Join us and help shape the future of lending.
What you’ll need
7. People Leadership & Interpersonal Skills: Inspire and empower an inclusive team, coach and develop talent, role model LBG Values & Leadership behaviours
8. Intellectual & Analytical Curiosity: Challenge the status quo, innovate, and adapt quickly. Passion for solving problems and creative data use
9. Data Insights & Storytelling: Extract insights from complex datasets, simplify the complex, and influence team members
10. Commercial Foresight: Success in commercial analytics, personal lending, or financial services. Deep understanding of financial metrics, performance drivers, and regulatory frameworks
11. Business & Analytical Balance: Translate analytical findings into actionable business strategies, influencing decisions at all levels
12. Technical Expertise: Proficiency in SQL, Python, SAS, VBA, Power BI, Tableau, Adobe Analytics. Experience with cloud analytics, AI, pricing optimisation packages and predictive modelling desirable.
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 underrepresented 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:
13. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
14. An annual performance related bonus
15. Share schemes including free shares
16. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
17. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
18. 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 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.