Group Regulatory Policy, Senior Manager in Birmingham

**Salary:** £78,098 - £109,060

**Location(s):** London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, 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 in the office.

**About this opportunity**

Our team shapes and coordinates Lloyds Banking Group's regulatory policy strategy and advocacy, working with colleagues across LBG to provide constructive and timely input to the government and regulators. We’re looking for an enthusiastic expert on digital assets and collaborative senior manager to join our team.

**Day to day you will:**

• Pro-actively identifying and defining regulatory policy priorities, views and engagement plans across your portfolio, with a focus on digital assets.
• Working with senior colleagues across the bank to provide expert analysis on the impacts of regulation on LBG.
• Providing expert advice to senior leaders on regulatory issues.
• Strategically considering and planning how to engage externally with government, regulators, trade associations and professional services firms on the issues that matter to LBG.
• Drafting and presenting high-quality briefings, consultation responses, position papers, and committee papers.
• Horizon scanning and monitoring regulatory ideas, issues and debates externally, and updating internal stakeholders on these at pace.
• Supporting work to collect data and evidence for use in our advocacy and on Cost Benefit Analysis.

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

**What you’ll need:**

• Extensive experience and technical expertise from working on financial services regulation, with a specialism in digital assets.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, especially demonstrable experience in presenting to a C-suite level audience, and senior stakeholders externally, and excellent organisational skills with attention to detail.
• A natural curiosity and desire to keep learning about regulation, public policy and the UK’s socio-economic challenges beyond the core portfolio.
• A highly collaborative approach with excellent interpersonal skills and stakeholder management.
• Commercial savvy with a strong understanding of LBG’s strategic objectives, as well as energy and enthusiasm to enhance the reputation and interests of the Group, and to help Britain prosper.
• A willingness to work flexibly in a fast-paced environment in order to meet urgent requests from both internal and external partners.

**About working for us:**

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

**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

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.

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.