Commerical Trading Senior Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Commercial Trading Senior Manager. This role involves optimizing the commercial plan, data analysis, and leading a high-performing team. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills and commercial acumen. The position offers a salary range of £76,194 - £89,640, with hybrid working options.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Inspirational leadership creating an inclusive team environment.
• Data-driven and analytical with strong financial understanding.
• Innovative and adaptable, unafraid to challenge the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and optimize the commercial plan.
• Own business and market forecasts.
• Lead a high-performing team focused on commercial performance.

Skills

Strong People Leadership

Critical Thinking

Technical Expertise

Data Insights

Communication

Tools

Power BI

Machine Learning

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Overview

End Date Wednesday 15 October 2025

Salary Range £76,194 - £89,640

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Commercial Trading Senior Manager

SALARY: The salary banding is £76,194 - £89,640

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.

What will I be doing?

• Responsible for delivery and optimisation of the commercial plan, budgeting and forecasting and strategic investment initiatives.
• Ownership of business and market forecasts, including lending, balance sheet, market share and income outlook.
• Extensive market knowledge and awareness – making recommendations from your insight to shape the Loans commercial agenda.
• Strong interpersonal skills to maximise commercial impact, demonstrating and maintaining internal and external customer relationships – including our third-party suppliers.
• Ultimately responsible for the maintenance of commercial risk, ensuring opportunities are maximised and risks mitigated.
• Leading and developing a high-performing Commercial Performance team through stretching performance objectives, constructive feedback and coaching.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Strong People Leadership and interpersonal Skills: You’ll inspire and empower an inclusive team, be able to stretch, coach and develop to improve performance and provide a great team environment.
• Critical Thinking & Commercial Acumen: Leading the team to maximise commercial performance, with a clear understanding of financial metrics and performance drivers. Highly numerical, data-driven individual, responsible for maximising commercial performance
• Intellectually & Analytically Curious: Unafraid to challenge the status quo, have an intellectually curious outlook, where you seek to innovate and adapt quickly from setbacks.
• Technical & Analytical Expertise: Proficiency in data analysis, customer analytics, building and validating models for forecasting, pricing, and segmentation and visualisation tools (e.g. Agentic AI, Machine Learning, Python, SQL, SAS, Power BI, Tableau) and experience with cloud-based data platforms (e.g. GCP native tools) providing actionable insight and analytics for the business.
• Data Insights and Storytelling: Apply product led thinking to reporting and analytics initiatives, ensuring solutions are user centric, iterative, and aligned to evolving business needs.
• Communicate & Influence: Present and influence effectively at all levels of the organisation, including the Group Executive Committee (GEC).

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

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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• 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.

Data and recruitment privacy 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.