Manager – Launch Innovation Programme

Lloyds Banking Group

. Identify, assess and onboard fintechs, start-ups and scale-ups aligned to strategic customer and business priorities.

Posted 4/3/2026full-timeBristol • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £61,344 - £68,160 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify, assess and onboard fintechs, start-ups and scale-ups aligned to strategic customer and business priorities.
Act as the day-to-day innovation lead for external partners, building strong, collaborative relationships.
Lead the end-to-end delivery of innovation experiments, from problem definition and proposition design through to live testing and evaluation.
Apply test-and-learn approaches to rapidly validate customer value, feasibility and commercial potential.
Work closely with internal stakeholders across propositions, platform, technology, risk, legal, compliance, procurement and finance to enable delivery.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3 years experience in innovation, partnerships, product, propositions or venture-style roles.
3 years working with fintechs, start-ups or scale-ups, either within a corporate, accelerator, consultancy or start-up setting.
Strong delivery mindset, with the ability to handle multiple initiatives at pace.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence engaging senior leaders.
Commercial acumen, with the ability to assess value, viability and scalability of new propositions.
A customer-first mindset, with curiosity and a passion for solving real customer problems.
Running pilots, proofs of concept or live customer experiments is great.
Experience navigating risk, legal, compliance and procurement processes within a bank or regulated organisation.
Exposure to innovation programmes, accelerators or ecosystem partnerships.
Experience taking propositions from experiment into scaled launch.
Knowledge of emerging fintech trends, technologies and business models.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

innovationpartnershipsproduct managementproposition designtest-and-learn approachescustomer value assessmentfeasibility analysiscommercial potential evaluationrunning pilotsproofs of concept

Soft Skills

delivery mindsetstakeholder managementcommunication skillsengaging senior leaderscommercial acumencustomer-first mindsetcuriosityproblem-solvingcollaborative relationshipsability to handle multiple initiatives