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JOB TITLE: Team Manager – Workplace Pensions (Scottish Widows)

SALARY: £37,548.00 - £41,720.00

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Port Hamilton Office

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 the opportunity

Are you passionate about making a difference whilst keeping the customer at the heart of everything you do? Then there's a role here for you!

This role is based in our Work Place Pensions Team and we are currently looking for an enthusiastic and driven people leader to join our team. We're looking for someone to further embed our strong culture of trusting colleagues to do the right thing for our customers.

You will promote and lead initiatives to enhance our ways of working, and support everyone to bring their best self to work every single day.

You'll lead, support and encourage the team to deliver excellent customer service and achieve high standards of accuracy, whilst also supporting the Senior Leadership Team and being pro-active in identify risks and resolving issues.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated, versatile and bold individual to take a pivotal role in the success of this team. It is a varied and exciting role that involves managing resources, performance and colleague wellbeing, whilst supporting in shaping the future course of our operation.

With a focus on measuring what is really important to customers through end to end customer journeys, our operations are transforming in order to support the Insurance, Pensions and Investments business to meet the ever changing needs of our customers every day.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're focused on continuing to improve customer experience, simplifying our business and making Scottish Widows a great place to work for our colleagues, and you could be one of them.

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

The skills to lead, coach and role model a blended Customer Service Telephony and Administration team, whilst showcasing personal development and championing the group values.

The ability to identify improvement opportunities for existing processes, systems and procedures to improve customer experience whilst embracing curiosity and innovation to simplify the way we do things.

You will take ownership of risk by proactively identifying and promptly call out opportunities to improve our control environment to ensure all customers receive fair outcomes.

Create an engaging environment and positively influence our culture by seeking feedback and recognising colleagues for their contribution.

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:

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?

Join our journey.

This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks

As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA’s Financial Services Register

This role has been identified as a Functions requiring qualifications under SYSC 27.8.10R as defined in the FCA Handbook.(1) Each function involving an activity for which there is a qualification requirement as specified in TC App 1.1.1R (Activities and Products/Sectors to which TC applies) is an FCA certification function.(2) A person performs the FCA certification function in this rule even if: (a) the time period within which the person must have obtained the qualification requirement has not yet expired; or (b) the person is exempt from the qualification requirement.

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.