Data Commercialisation Lead (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Our Data Products team develop and runs the data offering to service Commercial Banking clients. We build complete new business lines utilising data enterprise assets and redefine this into client solutions. We offer data insight propositions that provides our clients insights to help them understand their markets and their customers ecosystems, utilising transactional data.

We have an outstanding opportunity to play a meaningful role in the success of the proposition, by leading client conversations and managing sales pipelines working closely with our Relationship teams, shaping commercialisation strategy including future expansion into the SME and Mid Corp businesses.

You'll have the chance to work closely with Transformation and Chief Data departments to build and develop insights propositions that best meet the needs of our clients and deliver value and income for the Bank.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What You’ll Need
Essential Capabilities:

• The ability to understand and articulate client needs and emerging market trends through data/insights will be critical in being successful in the role alongside:
• A good awareness of the emerging data/insight needs of clients, data market trends, development of digital ecosystems and competitor activity;
• Identify and deliver new data/insight client relationships in order to meet the business goals and generating targeted levels of income
• An ability to generate business problem statements driven by client feedback and critically assess possible solutions;
• Analytical and able to interpret qualitative and quantitative data to summarise insight and make recommendations;
• Commercially minded, to deliver portfolio and franchise growth through complex, robust customer negotiations ensuring the correct outcome for the customer and the Group
• Confident communicator, verbally and in writing who can distil sophisticated themes into simple but highly effective messages;
• An innovative problem solver, not afraid to take calculated risks, make choices to achieve their goals and to think beyond traditional boundaries to solve problems
• Be able to work in a fast-paced, agile working environment and become a valued, dependable member of the team who regularly delivers a high quality of output;
• Develop relationships with key team members across business units who are responsible for delivering the product including Corporate Institution Coverage, Group Transformation, Portfolio Analytics, and wider Client Products;
• A self-motivated individual who manages their time well and can regularly prioritise key results;
• Has a strategic approach and is able to think laterally, be firmly on the client agenda, be innovative and find creative solutions to customer problems;
• Client facing experience; understanding and delivering on client needs would be ideal.

Skills:

• Inventive, creative, inspiring
• Strong presentation and storytelling abilities where you're able to articulate a conclusion and recommendations clearly and with evidence to back up your findings
• Ability to influence and inspire change, both upwards and outside the bank
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team working skills
• Adept at building build strong and impactful relationships with internal and external partners
• Someone who is a self-starter, pro-active and resilient

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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.

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.

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