Senior Climate Manager

Job Title: Senior Climate Manager

Salary: £76,194-£89,640

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester

Hours: Full Time

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in one of our above office sites.

About this Opportunity

This is an opportunity to bring your experience and expertise in climate-related sustainability to Lloyds Banking Group where you'll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions.

As Senior Climate Manager you'll be in a team of sustainability specialists responsible for ensuring that the Group develops and maintains positions on all climate and net zero related topics, with appropriate targets and ambitions in place aligned to strategy, providing strategic advice based on specialist knowledge, market insights and trends and delivering select Group led initiatives that impact the business and our four key environmental systems.

You'll be part of the Group Sustainable Business team which sits at the centre of the Group and plays an important role in enabling Lloyds Banking Group's purpose ambitions and activities which are critical to the delivery of the Group's strategy and helping Britain Prosper. These include defining the ambitions and enablement actions across key areas such as affordable homes, financial empowerment, regional development, transition to net zero and protecting nature.

Day to day you'll be:

• Providing guidance to the Group on the evolving challenges and opportunities in the net zero landscape and their interdependency with nature, adaptation, circular economy and just transition themes.
• Maintaining a strong relationship with the Nature team to ensure closely linked climate and nature activities are appropriately sequenced and coordinated.
• Developing approaches for key emerging topics including adaptation and circular economy and how to integrate into existing environmental system and risk activity across the Group.
• Owning the approach for updating and maintaining our external sector statements that integrates with business unit strategies and the process for responding to the annual CDP survey in a streamlined and efficient manner.
• Responsible for maintaining and evolving the team's approach for generating and sharing actionable insights across the Group.
• Using knowledge, insights and external relationships to develop areas of thought leadership on key environmental topics of importance to the Group.
• Engaging, as appropriate, in leading industry initiatives on financed emissions, target setting, portfolio alignment, transition planning (e.g., PCAF, GFANZ, NZBA, TPT, etc.).
• Leading, empowering and developing colleagues to help build a high-performing team, encouraging and embedding new, agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace.
• Building and maintaining external insights on environmental sustainability issues and how they impact the Group to ensure forward plans focus on strategic issues of importance to the Group.
  

What you'll need:

We're looking for a strong leader with a detailed understanding of climate-related issues and how they apply to financial institutions. If this is you, we'd like to hear from you!

Specifically, we're looking for someone that:

• Has a deep understanding of climate-related sustainability topics relevant to financial institutions and their interdependencies with nature, adaptation, circular economy and just transition themes, including knowledge of at least one of the Group's four environmental systems.
• Understands net zero transition solutions in a number of sectors, has strong knowledge of relevant climate scenario pathways, target-setting approaches, and emissions reporting and application of these concepts to development of commercially aligned transition strategies for a financial institution and related organisational transition plans.
• Is experienced in designing and monitoring transition strategies and practices to reduce carbon emissions to net zero that are relevant to financial institutions.
• Has the ability to conduct quantitative analysis that is able to extract actionable insights from external and internal data and reports to make informed decisions and provide strategic advice.
• Has a track record of identifying, understanding and successfully leading senior level relationships with individuals or groups who have a vested interest in the outcome.
• Has a strong network in climate and sustainability related bodies and initiatives such as GFANZ, net zero financial alliances, PCAF, UNEP FI and Green Finance Institute.
• Speaks confidently and writes clearly and concisely to convey information accurately.
• Coaching to go faster by demonstrating dedication to creating an environment that builds teams with skills aligned to strategy.

It would also be beneficial to have experience in:

• Climate scenario analysis including knowledge of key climate scenarios including those issued by the IEA, UK Climate Change Committee and other relevant market leading sector pathways.
• Using evolving AI tools for analysis and insights.

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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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 about being part of our team, get in touch!