Assistant Climate Manager

JOB TITLE: Assistant Climate Manager

SALARY: £39,825 - £44,250

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds & Bristol

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 expertise in climate-related sustainability to Lloyds Banking Group where you'll play a key role in delivering our sustainability ambitions.

As an Assistant Manager - Climate you'll be in a team of sustainability specialists responsible for ensuring that the Group develops and maintains positions on all climate and decarbonisation 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.

As Assistant Manager - Climate
, you’ll be:

• Helping to understand the Group's emissions profile and engaging with business units on target setting and refresh activity to ensure the consistency and appropriateness of methods used

• Conducting research and analysis on existing and emerging climate-related sustainability topics to aid development and refinement of our policies, frameworks and initiatives

• Supporting the planning, delivery, and tracking of multiple climate work streams

• Inputting into the team's evolving approach for generating and sharing actionable insights across the Group.

• Supporting the development of Group positions and thought leadership on key environmental topics of importance to the Group.

• Helping to identify, encourage and embed new agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace, making use of AI tools where appropriate.

• Developing and maintaining strong internal relationships with specialist nature and social teams within the GSB function, as well as key colleagues in our business units and Group functions, including Risk and Finance

• Building and maintaining your environmental sustainability knowledge and how sustainability issues impact the Group, along with a view of how competitors are progressing

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. We're excited to push boundaries, make change happen and grow with purpose together.

We're looking for someone with a strong background in climate-related sustainability topics relevant to financial institutions. If this is you, we'd like to hear from you!

Specifically, we're looking for someone that:

• Has an understanding of several climate-related sustainability topics relevant to financial institutions such as target setting, climate scenarios and net zero transition solutions, with the desire to further build understanding over time.

• Has the ability to conduct quantitative analysis that is able to extract actionable insights from external and internal data and reports to help make informed decisions.

• Objectively defines and resolves a matter, improvement or situation that is difficult or undesirable. Uses information analysis and creative thinking, to formulate judgments and solutions that lead to effective outcomes.

• Is able to support delivery of concurrent high-profile projects and tasks while handling complexity, maintaining attention to detail and working at pace.

• Builds professional relationships and networks with people in or outside the team as part of day-to-day work. Understands differences between people and seeks opportunities to work collaboratively across boundaries

• Speaks confidently and writes clearly and concisely to convey information accurately, demonstrates good listening, thinking about what and how to communicate.

• Actively seeks opportunities to learn new concepts, ideas and skills to increase impact

• Understanding of evolving AI tools for analysis and insights

• 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.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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