Business Readiness & Implementation Senior Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 78,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the UK is seeking a Senior Manager in Business Readiness & Implementation to lead a critical change portfolio within Customer Services. You will drive delivery, ensure adoption of new processes and shape governance with senior leaders across change teams and operations.

The role requires 8+ years of change leadership in complex environments, strong governance experience, and a track record of delivering measurable improvements in customer outcomes and operational

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience leading change within large, complex operational or customer service environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading managers and multidisciplinary teams across change delivery, business readiness or training.
• Extensive management of a complex portfolio of change, including demand, prioritisation, timing, risks and dependencies.
• Delivering multiple major changes from operational impact assessment through to implementation, adoption and transition into business as usual.
• Building, leading or significantly improving an operational training capability, with accountability for training design, delivery and effectiveness.
• Chairing senior governance forums and making recommendations on prioritisation, operational readiness, delivery risk and go-live decisions.
• Influencing Director-level internal customers, challenging delivery plans, resolving competing priorities and securing decisions.
• Delivering measurable improvements in customer outcomes, colleague capability, operational performance, controls or risk.

Responsibilities

• Change Gateway: own the change landscape, assess demand, impacts, risks and dependencies for prioritisation and governance.
• Change Partnering: bridge Operations and change teams to shape solutions and assess operational impacts.
• Training Delivery: build and lead training capability across CS areas to ensure knowledge and adoption of new processes and systems.

Skills

Change management

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Governance

Training delivery

Job description

JOB TITLE: Business Readiness & Implementation Senior Manager.

SALARY: £78,100pa to £91,800pa plus an extensive benefits package.

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh or Leeds.

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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

We have an exciting opportunity for an inspirational and talented senior manager to help shape the future of Customer Services. Joining Lloyds Wealth & Insurance Customer Services (CS) at a pivotal point in our transformation journey, you'll play a key role in building a more efficient, capable and customer-focused operation, helping us deliver a market-leading service for customers while creating a great experience for colleagues.

Want to hear more?

Reporting to the Operational Excellence Hub, you'll lead a team responsible for ensuring change is successfully introduced, adopted and embedded across Customer Services. Working closely with senior leaders, change teams and operational colleagues, you'll bring visibility, structure and support to a significant portfolio of change, helping the business make informed decisions, land change safely and build the capabilities needed for the future.

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping how Customer Services prioritises, lands and embeds change, helping build the capabilities needed for the future operation, by leading the following three teams:

• Change Gateway: Owning Customer Services' view of the change landscape, assessing demand, impacts, risks and dependencies to enable informed prioritisation, effective governance and successful delivery of change. The Change Gateway acts as the single front door for all change impacting Customer Services, ensuring change is prioritised, governed and delivered in a way that balances customer outcomes, colleague experience, operational performance and risk.
• Change Partnering: Acting as the bridge between Operations and change teams, helping shape solutions, assess operational impacts and ensure change is designed and delivered in a way that works for customers, colleagues and the business. Change Partnering ensures Customer Services has a strong voice throughout the change lifecycle, helping shape, land and embed change in a way that delivers successful outcomes for customers, colleagues and the business.
• Training Delivery: Building and leading Customer Services' training capability (delivering training across the majority of CS areas), ensuring colleagues have the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to adopt new processes, systems and ways of working. Training Delivery plays a critical role in helping Customer Services successfully adopt change. We're bringing together and evolving a training capability that will support the majority of Customer Services. Working closely with Change Partners and operational leaders, the team ensures colleagues have the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to embrace new ways of working.

What You'll Need:

• 8+ years' experience leading change within large, complex operational or customer service environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading managers and multidisciplinary teams across change delivery, business readiness or training.
• Extensive management of a complex portfolio of change, including demand, prioritisation, timing, risks and dependencies.
• Delivering multiple major changes from operational impact assessment through to implementation, adoption and transition into business as usual.
• Building, leading or significantly improving an operational training capability, with accountability for training design, delivery and effectiveness.
• Chairing senior governance forums and making recommendations on prioritisation, operational readiness, delivery risk and go-live decisions.
• Influencing Director-level internal customers, challenging delivery plans, resolving competing priorities and securing decisions.
• Delivering measurable improvements in customer outcomes, colleague capability, operational performance, controls or risk.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

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 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.