At Lloyds Banking Group, we're motivated by a clear purpose - to Help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) division of Lloyds Banking Group helps more than 10 million personal customers with their long-term protection, retirement, and investment needs.

There is an exciting opportunity to join IP&I as the Head of Shareholder Assets. Reporting to the Director of Loan Investments & Shareholder Assets, you'll be responsible for setting and continuously improving the overall Investment strategy for our £27bn Shareholder Assets portfolio and delivering that strategy in relation to the traded assets portfolio.

Leading a team of five, you'll oversee our third-party asset managers, the internal implementation processes for new types of traded investments and the ongoing management of the existing traded asset portfolio. Key to this role is the responsibility for ensuring internal and external partners are on board with the required deliverables and timescales to support the planned investments.

Location & ways of working:

The team is based in Edinburgh and in central London therefore the role can be based at either location.

We're happy to consider options for agile working. We operate a hybrid model, enabling colleagues to experience the benefits of time in the same location as their colleagues while also entrusting colleagues with choice about how, when and where they work, to deliver their best.

Key Accountabilities:

• Leading, empowering and developing a team of five highly qualified staff.

• Defining Shareholder investment strategy, ongoing monitoring and development of investment strategy and delivery of new asset capability to improve investment outcomes.

• Oversight and performance monitoring of third-party investment managers.

• Integrate ESG, particularly climate considerations, into investment strategy and processes

• Interaction with other areas of the business, including Bulk Annuity Origination, Annuity Pricing and Finance to ensure delivery of investment strategy and bulk annuity strategy.

• Set criteria for assessing investments and provide tools and support to the wider team on measuring specific investment opportunities against those criteria

• Ensuring investment decisions are consistent with Prudent Person Principle (PPP) and other applicable regulatory requirements

• Chairing the Shareholder Investment Management Committee overseeing management of the shareholder asset portfolio

Skills & experience we're looking for:

• Relevant experience of leading teams in an Investment, Actuarial or Finance area is a must for this role. Ideally with bulk annuity experience.

• Understanding of Insurance capital and other regulatory requirements and how these impact investment strategy for Insurers and competitiveness for bulk annuities

• Experience of managing outsourced investment arrangements

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to engage a variety of partners both internally and externally, up to board level.

• Effective collaboration with internal and external partners to drive projects forward, deliver commercial outcomes and mitigate conflicting priorities.

What can we offer you?

In addition to base salary, we'll give you a remuneration packages which includes:

• A discretionary performance share bonus

• A generous pension contribution

• A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle

• Private health cover

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

• Various share schemes including free shares

Please note we'll discuss base salary with you at interview stage. Base salary will vary depending on your 'hub location' and the skills & experience you'll bring to our team.

In return for your expertise, you'll enjoy our total dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development.

So if you have the skills we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you. We'll help you perform at your best today, so you can fulfil all your potential in the future. We know that success is built from the inside out through our people.

We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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