Manager – Launch Innovation Programme
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bristol • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £61,344 - £68,160 per year
About the role
- 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
- 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
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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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