Associate Director - Climate and Transition Strategy team

End Date: Wednesday 15 July 2026

Salary Range: £0 - £0

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Title

Associate Director - Climate and Transition Strategy Team

Location

London or Edinburgh

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 our London or Edinburgh office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing:

Want to help shape the transition to a more sustainable economy while working with some of the UK's largest corporate and institutional clients? At Lloyds Banking Group, sustainability is central to our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper. As an Associate Director in our Climate Transition Strategy team, you’ll help clients navigate climate and sustainability challenges by combining technical expertise, commercial insight and practical delivery.

You’ll assess how clients are responding to climate and sustainability challenges, turning complex information into practical insights that support decision making. You’ll take charge of a large‑scale transition assessment programme, coordinating the delivery, quality, and continuous improvement across the team.

You’ll help shape how we use AI and data to improve climate assessments, working with colleagues across technology, risk and governance to support responsible innovation. Using data and market insights, you’ll help strengthen our climate transition capabilities and support advisory work, sustainable finance opportunities and client engagement.

Collaborating with colleagues from Sustainable and Transition Finance, Coverage, ESG Risk, and Group Sustainability, you’ll help deliver meaningful outcomes for clients. You’ll also support business growth and contribute to Lloyds Banking Group’s leadership in sustainable finance.

Why join us?

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, make change happen and challenge the status quo. Sound like you?

What we’re looking for:

• 7 to 10 years’ experience in ESG, climate, sustainability, sustainable finance or related advisory roles, with a track record of leading complex projects and delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Strong understanding of translating climate, sustainability and ESG trends into a commercial context for client engagement.
• Experience working with data, analytical tools and insights to support decision making, find opportunities and communicate findings clearly to diverse audiences.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex sustainability topics in a clear, engaging and commercially relevant way.
• Experience leading teams, programmes or workstreams, taking ownership for delivery, quality and outcomes while supporting the development of others.

And any experience of these would be great:

• Adaptation and resilience
• Just transition
• Nature integration
• Energy transition
• Sustainable transport
• Green buildings
• Sustainable supply chains
• Circular economy
• Sustainable food systems

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, 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‑range 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 pol