Assistant Climate Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Wellington; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial institution is seeking an Assistant Climate Manager to support its sustainability initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for engaging with various business units on climate-related targets and conducting research to enhance policy and framework development. The position requires a strong background in climate sustainability, alongside excellent analytical and communication skills. You will work within a hybrid environment, contributing significantly to the company’s climate and environmental strategies.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

28 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Strong background in climate-related sustainability topics relevant to financial institutions.
• Ability to conduct quantitative analysis from data.
• Experience with project delivery in high-profile environments.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business units on climate targets and emissions profile.
• Conduct climate-related research and policy development.
• Support delivery of climate workstreams and insights.

Skills

Understanding of climate-related sustainability topics

Quantitative analysis skills

Creative thinking

Project delivery capability

Effective communication skills

Desire to learn new concepts

Education

Relevant degree or certification

Tools

AI analysis tools

Job description

Job Details

Job Title: Assistant Climate Manager
End Date: Friday 02 January 2026
Salary Range: £39,825 - £44,250
Flexible Working Options: Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share
Location(s): Edinburgh, Leeds & Bristol
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

This is an opportunity to bring your experience and expertise in climate-related sustainability to Lloyds Banking Group where you’ll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions.

As an Assistant Manager - Climate you’ll be in a team of sustainability specialists responsible for ensuring that the Group develops and maintains positions on all climate and decarbonisation related topics, with appropriate targets and ambitions in place aligned to strategy, providing strategic advice based on specialist knowledge, market insights and trends and delivering select Group led initiatives that impact the business and our four key environmental systems.

You’ll be part of the Group Sustainable Business team which sits at the centre of the Group and plays an important role in enabling Lloyds Banking Group’s purpose ambitions and activities which are critical to the delivery of the Group’s strategy and helping Britain Prosper. These include defining the ambitions and enablement actions across key areas such as affordable homes, financial empowerment, regional development, transition to net zero and protecting nature.

Responsibilities

• Helping to understand the Group’s emissions profile and engaging with business units on target setting and refresh activity to ensure the consistency and appropriateness of methods used
• Conducting research and analysis on existing and emerging climate-related sustainability topics to aid development and refinement of our policies, frameworks and initiatives
• Supporting the planning, delivery, and tracking of multiple climate workstreams
• Inputting into the team’s evolving approach for generating and sharing actionable insights across the Group.
• Supporting the development of Group positions and thought leadership on key environmental topics of importance to the Group.
• Helping to identify, encourage and embed new agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace, making use of AI tools where appropriate.
• Developing and maintaining strong internal relationships with specialist nature and social teams within the GSB function, as well as key colleagues in our business units and Group functions, including Risk and Finance
• Building and maintaining your environmental sustainability knowledge and how sustainability issues impact the Group, along with a view of how competitors are progressing

About Us

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. We're excited to push boundaries, make change happen and grow with purpose together.

What you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in climate-related sustainability topics relevant to financial institutions. If this is you, we’d like to hear from you!

• Has an understanding of several climate-related sustainability topics relevant to financial institutions such as target setting, climate scenarios and net zero transition solutions, with the desire to further build understanding over time.
• Has the ability to conduct quantitative analysis that is able to extract actionable insights from external and internal data and reports to help make informed decisions.
• Objectively defines and resolves a matter, improvement or situation that is difficult or undesirable. Uses information analysis and creative thinking, to formulate judgments and solutions that lead to effective outcomes.
• Is able to support delivery of concurrent high-profile projects and tasks while handling complexity, maintaining attention to detail and working at pace.
• Builds professional relationships and networks with people in or outside the team as part of day-to-day work. Understands differences between people and seeks opportunities to work collaboratively across boundaries
• Speaks confidently and writes clearly and concisely to convey information accurately, demonstrates good listening, thinking about what and how to communicate.
• Actively seeks opportunities to learn new concepts, ideas and skills to increase impact

Beneficial Experience

• Understanding of evolving AI tools for analysis and insights
• Climate scenario analysis including knowledge of key climate scenarios including those issued by the IEA, UK Climate Change Committee and other relevant market leading sector pathways.

About Working For Us

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 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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

Benefits

• 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
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited about being 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.