Head of Structured FX & Commodity Sales (Parental Leave cover)

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JOB TITLE: Head of Structured FX & Commodity Sales (Parental Leave cover)
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol or Birmingham
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 currently have a great opportunity for a Head of Structured FX & Commodities to join our Specialist Client Solutions Team on a 12-month fixed term contract.

Our team sits within Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) and deliver Financial Market Risk Management solutions to Clients via Face to Face, Telephony and Digital Channels within the BCB Corporate franchise.

With Financial Markets as volatile as they are, we're seeing a significantly increased demand from Clients to manage their FX and Commodity exposures via more innovative and complex solutions. We're therefore delighted to offer this Sales role that focusses specifically on our client’s complex needs.

Positioned alongside the front-line Sales teams, the Head of Structured FX & Commodities Sales will be accountable for driving Sales by using our expansive product set to structure and sell to Clients that have sophisticated needs across multiple asset classes.

Your accountabilities will include:

• Structure appropriate and innovative solutions to help our clients handle their exposures to FX and Commodity market moves.
• Work with the Sales and Coverage teams to mine portfolios across the back and front book for opportunities to deliver these solutions as well as drive the education agenda for wider adoption.
• Drive Sales and convert leads from all BCB Markets internal & external origination mechanisms to completion. Embrace responsibility for a consistent and flawless conduct agenda.
• Connect our excellent content, exposure and quantification techniques to deliver a comprehensive solution to Clients.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of developments and trends in financial markets and in related risk management products and strategies in order to enable the team to deliver outstanding solutions and content to Clients’ needs.
• Assist in managing the work of more junior team members and enabling them to develop their technical knowledge and commercial experience, providing coaching, leadership and direction as appropriate.
• Champion a strong control and compliance culture by demonstrating a sound understanding of the role of data and privacy risk for the benefit of clients, colleagues and the Bank.

About us!

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?

• Extensive experience driving sales in Structured FX and Commodities.
• A passion for leading teams and driving process and product improvements.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to handle a range of priorities and make business decisions quickly to meet the business and client needs.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills with a demonstrable ability of empowering colleagues and driving forward internal and external partners as well as reflect the strong ethics and values of Lloyds Banking Group.
• Experience of mentoring, coaching and developing teams – to produce the best results possible and grow talent within the bank, driving employee satisfaction.

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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose

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.