QBR (Quarterly Business Review) Operational Product Owner London, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
London, England
118652 - 139590 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Monday 03 July 2023
Salary Range
£118,652 - £139,590Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
About Our TeamThe Changing Together & Ways of Working team sits within the Portfolio Management directorate in the Group Chief Operating Office (GCOO) with accountability for the change operating model, change method, QBR system and strategic improvements to support embedding and maturity of the Platform Operating Model.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Quarterly Business Review, Operational Product Owner
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £118000 - £140000
LOCATION: London, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester
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.
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £118000 - £140000
LOCATION: London, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester
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.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a new position of QBR Lead, driving efficient alignment of the Group’s strategy with the integrated business plans and Objectives & Key Results (OKR’s) across our Platform and Enterprise enabling teams.
The QBR is an integrated system to ensure prioritisation and strategic alignment across our platforms and plays a crucial role in delivering the strategy. As the QBR System Lead, you will report into the Changing Together & Ways of Working Director with accountability for the running of the E2E QBR system with a real focus on embedding and enhancing the system.
You'll have the exciting responsibility of working with senior leaders across the Group including Platform Leaders, CIO’s, CFO and Investment Management, to orchestrate the quarterly activity. The role will be a key contributor in creating strategic alignment of our GEC priorities and investment envelopes set through robust dependency management and acceleration of decision making for cross Business Unit prioritisation.
We're looking for an inspiring and commercially minded leader who understand the investment and change process and importance of aligning our group strategy and creation of a Golden thread down to value being delivered within our teams. The individual will ideally have extensive Change or Business Architecture experience to assist the technical interlock discussions or agile transformational experience. Hands on QBR experience is an added benefit.
This role provides an opportunity to join an energised leadership team who display a growth mindset and feel passionately about inclusivity and developing forward-thinking people.
Key accountabilities include:
- E2E accountability for executing a multi-billion pound quarterly business review
- Ongoing evolvement and automation of the Quarterly Business Review process to simplify and improve our performance and strategic prioritisation.
- Driving strategic alignment of the golden thread from Group Strategy through to team level.
- Working with our Platform Leaders, enabling teams and supporting functions to create a rolling 18 month portfolio plan.
- Interrogating dependency data each cycle to identify opportunities to reduce inbound and outbound demand to drive better platform autonomy.
- Provide recommendations for operating model enhancements and sequencing of initiatives in our platform maturity roadmap through data insight to evidence how we can best unlock customer outcomes.
What we're looking for:
- Experience in Agile methodology and scaling.
- Demonstration of strong leadership and communication skills at all levels, with a trusted ability to bring business and technology together.
- Strong understanding of investment process and importance of OKR alignment to investment and value being delivered
- Strong facilitation skills to manage many platform discussions with leaders with differing priorities requiring interlock.
- Dependency and benefit management experience to allow creation of a portfolio view each cycle.
- Ability to demonstrate working with technical and cross-functional teams Experience in participating in or running a QBR or similar transformational change
Does this sound like you? If so we’d love to talk about how you could become part of our inclusive, values-led team that celebrates diversity, promotes equal opportunity, and provides opportunities for flexible working.
What you'll get in return
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
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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
We’ll provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that supports career progression on all levels. We want you to learn, grow & develop to become the best possible version of yourself.
Our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together!
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.
