Director, Food Tech

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Saturday 08 June 2024
Salary Range
£108,840 - £136,050
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Director – Food tech
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time in the office.
About this opportunity
We’re currently seeking a visionary and strategic Director to establish and lead our coverage of the fast growing Food tech industry. Food tech is a new industry within the Consumer & Tech sector coverage team, and you’ll be responsible for developing our proposition to serve this fast-growing industry, crafting this around client needs.
You’ll lead a small team dedicated to this space with the mission to grow a new client portfolio. This role is pivotal in tapping into a high-growth market segment, driving innovation within the bank, and establishing Lloyds Banking Group as a key player in the Food tech landscape, an industry which will be critical to feeding the UK and the world sustainably.

Your accountabilities will include:

• Develop and implement a strategy and vision for coverage of the Food tech industry, aligning it with the bank’s overall objectives and market trends.
• Define the optimal client/product mix to maximize growth and profitability.
• Drive efficiency and agility within the initiative, exploring and implementing new approaches to enhance our operational effectiveness.
• Lead and mentor a team of coverage bankers, providing guidance and support in client engagement and business development.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with key clients in the Food and Tech sectors, understanding their unique needs and delivering tailored solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, offering strategic insights and leveraging the bank’s capabilities to drive value.
• Collaborate with specialized product teams within the bank to deliver comprehensive solutions that meet the evolving needs of Food tech clients.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What we need from you?

• Proven experience in a strategic leadership role within the financial services sector, preferably in corporate and institutional banking.
• Deep understanding of the Food tech landscape, including emerging trends, technologies, and market dynamics.
• Outstanding team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate others towards shared objectives.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and analytical abilities, coupled with a track record of developing and implementing successful business strategies.
• Excellent communication and partner management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across different teams and levels of the organization.

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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 Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook
The Person (“P”) performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1) P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2) those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm.
If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm.
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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