Framework Integration Assistant Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Discretionary annual performance award

Private health and wellbeing benefits

Flexible and hybrid working options

Learning and career growth

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Birmingham seeks a Framework Integration Assistant Manager to lead regulatory, risk and audit activities within Group Sourcing and Supplier Management. You will translate findings into practical action plans and drive governance with policy owners and risk teams.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, excellent written communication and the ability to deliver complex requirements on time, balancing change activity with BAU responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering risk, audit, assurance, controls or policy activities within a regulated organisation.
• Ability to translate complex findings, recommendations or requirements into practical actions and structured delivery plans.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge constructively, influence decisions and secure progress.
• Excellent organisation, written communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to prioritise effectively and balance regulatory change activity alongside business-as-usual responsibilities.
• Experience coordinating multiple actions, deliverables and stakeholders to meet agreed deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Translate external gap-analysis findings into clear, actionable plans and monitor delivery against regulatory deadlines.
• Partner with around 20 policy owners to embed agreed requirements into the Sourcing and Supplier Management Framework.
• Coordinate responses to second-line risk reviews and Internal Audit reports, validating findings and resolving factual inaccuracies.
• Establish and maintain robust action plans, including ownership, milestones, evidence tracking, risk management and escalation processes.
• Manage framework-related shared mailbox activity, coordinating input from subject matter experts and producing regular reporting.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across policy, risk, audit and GS&M teams to support effective delivery and governance.

Skills

Risk management

Audit

Policy delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication

Prioritisation

Job description

Job Title: Framework Integration Assistant Manager

Location(s): Birmingham

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Group Sourcing and Supplier Management (GS&SM) plays a vital role in delivering both cost efficiencies and revenue generation. We work closely with colleagues across the business to understand their needs and help them make informed decisions that balance pace, value and risk when acquiring goods and services.

We're looking for a Framework Integration Assistant Manager to help deliver key regulatory, risk and audit activities across GS&SM. This is an opportunity to work with policy owners, risk teams, Internal Audit and sourcing colleagues to turn findings into meaningful change, strengthen our framework and support critical business

priorities.

What you'll do:

• Translate external gap-analysis findings into clear, actionable plans and monitor delivery against regulatory deadlines.
• Partner with around 20 policy owners to embed agreed requirements into the Sourcing and Supplier Management Framework.
• Coordinate responses to second-line risk reviews and Internal Audit reports, validating findings and resolving factual inaccuracies.
• Establish and maintain robust action plans, including ownership, milestones, evidence tracking, risk management and escalation processes.
• Manage framework-related shared mailbox activity, coordinating input from subject matter experts and producing regular reporting.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across policy, risk, audit and GS&SM teams to support effective delivery and governance.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and technology, we're building a purpose-led organisation focused on the future of banking and helping Britain prosper. Our colleagues bring the skills, passion and commitment needed to make a difference for our customers, businesses and communities.

What you'll need

• Experience delivering risk, audit, assurance, controls or policy activities within a regulated organisation.
• The ability to translate complex findings, recommendations or requirements into practical actions and structured delivery plans.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge constructively, influence decisions and secure progress.
• Excellent organisation, written communication and reporting skills.
• The ability to prioritise effectively and balance regulatory change activity alongside business-as-usual responsibilities.
• Experience coordinating multiple actions, deliverables and stakeholders to meet agreed deadlines.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Knowledge of sourcing, supplier management or third-party risk management.
• Experience supporting regulatory, governance or framework implementation activities.
• Familiarity with audit issue management, remediation tracking or control improvement programmes.

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. We are 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 launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have 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.

• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Discretionary annual performance award.
• Private health and wellbeing benefits.
• Flexible and hybrid working options where appropriate.
• Access to learning, development and career growth opportunities.