Strategic Workforce Analytics Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Strategic Workforce Analytics Manager to lead a team in shaping data-driven workforce strategies. The role focuses on building analytics frameworks to support critical decision-making in workforce planning, requiring strong data science expertise and leadership skills.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday, plus bank holidays

Flexible well-being initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in data science and passion for solving complex workforce challenges.
• Experience with predictive modelling and statistical techniques using Python.
• Comfortable working with ambiguous data and eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Strategic Workforce Analytics strategy.
• Build and enhance data-driven models to support 5-year Strategic Workforce planning.
• Coach and mentor team members in data-led workforce decisions.

Skills

Data Analytics

Data Science & Modelling

Data Visualisation

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Collaboration & Leadership

Agile Delivery

Machine Learning

Job description

Are you passionate about using data science to shape the future of work? Do you want to lead from the front in a dynamic, forward-thinking team that's influencing strategic decisions across the organisation? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

JOB TITLE: Strategic Workforce Analytics Manager

SALARY: £65,385 - £72,650

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh, Bristol & 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.

About the Opportunity

We're looking for a Strategic Workforce Analytics Manager to join our high-impact Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) team. Our mission is to ensure the organisation has the right people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. We do this by combining deep workforce insight with pioneering analytics to inform long-term planning and strategic decision-making.

You'll be part of a collaborative, curious, and ambitious team that's at the forefront of shaping the future workforce. We work across the People & Places function and the wider business to deliver meaningful, data-driven insights that support our strategic goals. Our work is varied, impactful, and constantly evolving-no two days are the same.

As a manager, you'll play a pivotal role in leading the development of our analytics strategy and building future-focused data models that help us understand and plan for evolving workforce needs. You'll also be a visible advocate for Strategic Workforce Planning across the organisation-coaching and supporting team members, fostering collaboration, and championing the value of data-led workforce decisions.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the design and delivery of our Strategic Workforce Analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with broader SWP and organisational goals.

• Build and enhance data-driven models to support 5-year Strategic Workforce planning, with a focus on future skills and location strategy.

• Develop and automate analytics and visualisations that inform strategic workforce decisions.

• Design and test scenario models to evaluate workforce interventions and future capability needs.

• Partner with colleagues across the business to source, cleanse, and analyse workforce data.

• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence to shape recruitment, reskilling, and talent strategies.

• Coach and mentor team members, supporting their development and encouraging a culture of continuous learning.

• Promote agile ways of working and lead delivery of analytics initiatives in an iterative, value-driven manner.

• Stay ahead of external trends in workforce analytics, AI, and talent market insights.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

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. Including you.

What you'll need

We're seeking someone with a strong foundation in data science and a passion for solving complex workforce challenges. You should be comfortable working with ambiguity, eager to learn, and ready to make a real impact.

Essentials Skills

• Data Analytics: Proficient in sourcing, transforming, and analysing large datasets to generate actionable insights.

• Data Science & Modelling: Experience with predictive modelling, scenario planning, and statistical techniques using Python.

• Data Visualisation: Skilled in tools like Power BI, Tableau, or similar to tell compelling stories through data.

• Strategic Thinking: Able to structure problems, generate hypotheses, and deliver robust, data-backed conclusions.

• Communication: Strong written and verbal skills, with experience presenting to senior stakeholders.

• Collaboration & Leadership: A team player who builds strong relationships, leads by example, and supports others to succeed.

• Agile Delivery: Experience working in agile environments, delivering iterative value and adapting to change.

• Experience working with AI models, including applying machine learning techniques to workforce or business problems.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Familiarity with workforce planning, HR analytics, or organisational design.

• Experience working with GCP and BigQuery

• Knowledge of skills taxonomies or talent intelligence platforms.

• Prompt engineering skills, with the ability to design and refine prompts for generative AI tools to support analysis, reporting, or scenario planning.

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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.