Card Schemes Manager – Visa, Mastercard

Lloyds Banking Group

Card Schemes Manager handling relationships with Visa and Mastercard within the Consumer Lending division at Lloyds Banking Group. Providing operational support and managing scheme communications for effective card product management.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeChester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £40,824 - £45,360 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Acting as a day‑to‑day point of contact for scheme‑related queries, providing operational and SME support to internal teams.
Managing scheme communications, including ownership of the shared scheme mailbox and triage of scheme bulletins, announcements, and updates.
Supporting live card products and scheme services, including product set‑up, change activity, and ongoing BAU support.
Assisting with the monitoring of scheme fees and charges, helping to identify trends, issues, and improvement opportunities in partnership with Finance and colleagues.
Supporting Commercial Cards activity and scheme forums where required, contributing coordination and scheme insight.
Assisting with scheme change, compliance, and coordination activity, working with Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders as appropriate.
Contributing to the continuous improvement of scheme processes, controls, and ways of working, including opportunities for simplification and automation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Confidence communicating clearly with a range of internal stakeholders
A structured approach to managing queries, information, and day‑to‑day activity
A collaborative mindset and willingness to learn and develop scheme knowledge
An interest in cards, payments, or supplier‑facing roles

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
28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationstructured approachproblem-solvingcoordinationoperational supportcontinuous improvementtrend analysisstakeholder managementwillingness to learn