Strategic Analytics Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Strategic Analytics Manager in the UK to lead the optimization of the Loans business. The role involves delivering commercial strategies, managing data analytics, and ensuring effective risk management. Successful candidates will possess strong leadership skills, analytical expertise, and a passion for driving performance. A hybrid working model and competitive salary are offered.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership and team development.
• Ability to extract insights from complex datasets.
• Strong understanding of financial metrics and commercial analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery and optimization of the commercial plan.
• Drive commercial performance reviews using trading data.
• Ensure robust commercial risk management.

Skills

People Leadership & Interpersonal Skills

Intellectual & Analytical Curiosity

Data Insights & Storytelling

Commercial Foresight

Business & Analytical Balance

Tools

SQL

Python

SAS

VBA

Power BI

Tableau

Adobe Analytics

Job description

Job Title: Strategic Analytics Manager

Salary: The salary banding for this role is £59,850 - £73,150

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.

About this opportunity

We’re offering you the unique opportunity to empower customers through innovative, responsible lending and market-leading personal loan solutions. We’re the UK’s #1 provider of personal loans: 24% market share, £11bn customer balances.

Come and join a dynamic, fast-paced team leading transformation and digitisation for Lloyds Banking Group. Where we’re committed to sustainable growth across our budget operating plan.

We’re looking for an analytical problem solver, a creative thinker and a hardworking collaborator who thrives on delivering in a fast-paced environment. You’ll shape the strategic direction of the UK’s largest consumer finance provider. Lead a high-performing culture to maximise demand generation across our four brands – Lloyds, Halifax, BoS and MBNA and via our own and third-party digital channels, delivering fair value for customers and ensuring responsible lending within risk appetite.

Our Commercial & Pricing teams optimises the financial performance and strategic objectives of the Loans business. As a Strategic Analytics Manager, you’ll provide optimise business outcomes and strategic objectives for the Loans business whilst Providing actionable insights to drive commercial performance and proposition development.

What will I be doing?

• Leading delivery and optimisation of the commercial plan, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic investment initiatives
• Driving commercial performance reviews, synthesising trading data and performance sensitivities

Apply market knowledge to shape the Loans commercial agenda

• Ensure robust commercial risk management, finding opportunities and mitigating risks
• Building and maintain strong customer relationships, including third-party suppliers
• Championing innovation, employing advanced analytics, AI, and experimentation

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re not just another bank, we’re innovative, fast-changing, and using finance as a force for good. We empower people to innovate, explore possibilities, and grow with purpose. Join us and help shape the future of lending.

What you’ll need

• People Leadership & Interpersonal Skills : Inspire and empower an inclusive team, coach and develop talent, role model LBG Values & Leadership behaviours
• Intellectual & Analytical Curiosity : Challenge the status quo, innovate, and adapt quickly. Passion for solving problems and creative data use
• Data Insights & Storytelling : Extract insights from complex datasets, simplify the complex, and influence team members
• Commercial Foresight : Success in commercial analytics, personal lending, or financial services. Deep understanding of financial metrics, performance drivers, and regulatory frameworks
• Business & Analytical Balance : Translate analytical findings into actionable business strategies, influencing decisions at all levels

Technical Expertise

Proficiency in SQL, Python, SAS, VBA, Power BI, Tableau, Adobe Analytics. Experience with cloud analytics, AI, pricing optimisation packages and predictive modelling desirable.

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.

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.