Strategy Manager – Competitor and Financial Markets Research London, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
London, England
82539 - 91710 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 25 August 2023
Salary Range
£82,539 - £91,710Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Manager, Group Strategy – Competitor Analysis
SALARY: £82,539 - £91,710
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday) at our 25 Gresham Street office in London.
Team and Role Overview:
We have an exciting and rare opportunity to join the Competitor Analysis team within Group Strategy.
Why Competitor Analysis:
Are you a passionate individual, interested in the competitive landscape and would like to develop the skills needed to become a valued advisor to the Group in this fast-paced environment? This could be the role for you!
The Competitor Analysis team shapes strategic thinking by identifying, monitoring, and evaluating trends in the Group’s external environment. This includes detailed financial and strategic analysis of peers for GEC/Board, exploration of emerging strategic trends, and collaborative projects with teams across the Group. Competitor Analysis also work closely with the other teams within the wider Group Strategy, Corporate Development, Fintech Investment and Investor Relations team.
As part of a small team, you will be a key contributor to all of the team’s outputs, leading projects and building areas of expertise. This is a great role to accelerate your development, gaining highly sought after skills and exposure to the thinking of senior management.
What you’ll be doing:
Becoming an expert on the Group’s external environment
- Advising on competitor developments: Offering insight and opinion to senior leadership on developments across the competitor landscape, from traditional peers to emerging challengers. This includes a variety of activities during quarterly financial reporting periods and coverage of market updates (e.g., investor days)
- Strategic problem solving: Undertaking a number of projects where a view of the external market and competitive environment enhances Group decision making (e.g., returns benchmarking, valuation deep-dives).
- Wider team interaction: Regular interaction and collaboration to share ideas and insights, as well as providing specialist knowledge to support wider team results (e.g. supporting Investor Relations with input into LBG quarterly reporting process)
- Knowledge sharing: Improving Group knowledge on the external environment through active collaboration and regular presentations.
Why Lloyds Banking Group:
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.
What you’ll need:
Essential skills:
- Strong analytical and technical capabilities, working at speed to critically analyse peer results
- Comfort with bank financial accounts and financial modelling
- An interest in the external environment which the Group operates in
- Organisational skills, demonstrating ability to manage multiple workstreams at the same time on an individual basis, as well as planning team deliverables
- Curious and enthusiastic mindset – you are not expected to be an expert (or even close to one) when you join, but the role suits someone who is keen to learn and ask questions to develop as quickly as possible
Desirable skills:
- Ability to communicating complex issues in a concise manner, both verbally and in writing
- Stakeholder management at all levels
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 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 under-represented 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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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.
