Regional Development Director – Real Assets

Lloyds Banking Group

. Innovate, structure and deliver long‑duration, asset‑backed investments that catalyse neighbourhood‑scale regeneration, combine mixed‑tenure housing, public realm and enabling infrastructure.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Realm

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Innovate, structure and deliver long‑duration, asset‑backed investments that catalyse neighbourhood‑scale regeneration, combine mixed‑tenure housing, public realm and enabling infrastructure.
Accelerate economic infrastructure including science and innovation assets, transport hubs and energy‑cluster developments.
Leverage strategic partnerships and public financial institutions alongside institutional investors and delivery specialists.
Develop innovative blended finance structures to unlock large scale regeneration and accelerate investment into socially impactful real assets.
Convene senior leaders and key partners across local and national government, institutional investors, developers, universities, housing providers and advisers.
Build place strategies for priority City Regions and co‑develop local action plans with regional authorities and partners.
Create scalable investment vehicles and public‑private joint ventures to unlock stalled sites and mobilise institutional capital.
Originate and structure Real Assets transactions that deliver measurable place‑based impact and commercial returns.
Blend capital sources to bridge viability gaps and secure risk‑adjusted project returns.
Contribute to the Group’s Social Housing Initiative, helping link regional development opportunities with LBG’s wider social impact strategy.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven origination capability and ability to lead senior multi‑party partner engagement (5+ years).
Strong background in corporate or structured finance, including real estate development and economic infrastructure (5+ years).
Experience blending public and private capital and working with regional authorities or public‑finance institutions.
Understanding of place‑based investment, sustainable finance and impact‑linked structuring.
Excellent communication, relationship‑building and commercial analysis skills.
Knowledge of regeneration in the built environment, industrial clusters and university‑anchored innovation ecosystems.
Professional qualifications (ACIB, ACT, CFA, CIMA, ACCA, MBA).

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

origination capabilitystructured financereal estate developmenteconomic infrastructureblended finance structurescapital sources blendingplace-based investmentimpact-linked structuringcommercial analysis

Soft Skills

communication skillsrelationship-buildingleadershipcollaborationstrategic thinking

Certifications

ACIBACTCFACIMAACCAMBA