Manager - Nature

JOB TITLE: Manager - Nature

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): London, Bristol, Edinburgh, 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, at one of our office sites.

This is an opportunity to bring your experience and technical expertise in nature to Lloyds Banking Group where you'll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions!

About this opportunity

The Manager, Nature will be a technical specialist and provide support for all nature-related activities with a day-to-day focus on activity to assess and manage nature-related risks.

Day to day, you will:

• Providing guidance to the Group on the assessment and management of nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities and contributing to an internal approach to ensure continued alignment with external frameworks.
• Drawing on leading science-based frameworks and initiatives from leading external bodies such as TNFD, SBTN, IPBES, WBCSD, WEF, and UNEP-FI to ensure our assessments are based on the best available data and metrics and fit-for-purpose in managing the Group's portfolio.
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships with key partners across the Group to collaborate on developing our nature-related risk assessments and nature-related propositions, including our approach to environmental markets.
• Contributing to the development of LBG capabilities in nature, by sharing your knowledge and expertise on key nature-related frameworks and expertise on the state of nature, pressures on nature and dependencies on ecosystem services with colleagues across all levels.
• Translating emerging and existing external nature requirements and determining the impact on the Group's business models and business areas, as well as delivering innovative insights to the industry.
• Contributing to a high-performing team, encouraging and embedding new, agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace.

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.

What you'll need:

• Has a good understanding of global, regional and national nature-related frameworks, policies and initiatives, such as the TNFD, Biodiversity Net Gain, the Environmental Improvement Plan, relevant components of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the CBD's Global Biodiversity Framework.
• Has experience in assessment and management of nature-related issues, including clear understanding of relevant data, metrics and interconnections between nature and climate and social issues, and strong data and analytical skills, including experience of geospatial data and analysis.
• Has good working knowledge of environmental markets, including, but not limited to Biodiversity Net Gain, Nutrient Neutrality and emerging markets like Natural Flood Management.
• Has excellent communication skills and written skills, including creation of high-quality presentations and written papers for a wide range of audiences.
• A track record of identifying, understanding and effectively managing relationships with a wide range of individuals or groups.

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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.