Hybrid Manager, Nature – Environmental Markets

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Manager, Nature – Environmental Markets
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £62,000 - £68,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leeds, United Kingdom

About the role

• Manager overseeing environmental markets in Lloyds Banking Group's Sustainable Business team. Collaborating on sustainability and engagement with environmental markets to deliver strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the design and implementation of internal approaches for engaging with environmental markets, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and sustainability ambitions.
• Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to strengthen environmental market integrity and credibility, including nature-based solutions and biodiversity-related propositions.
• Providing technical advice on frameworks and standards relevant to environmental markets.
• Translating complex market and regulatory developments into actionable insights for the Group’s lending and investment activities.
• Contributing to capability building on environmental markets across the Group by sharing your knowledge and expertise with colleagues across all levels.
• Contributing to a high-performing team, encouraging and embedding new, agile and innovative practices to improve process effectiveness, efficiency, accuracy and pace.
• Translating emerging and existing external nature requirements and determining the impact on the Group’s business models and business areas.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of environmental markets, including both nature and tech-based solutions, carbon and biodiversity credits, and emerging market standards.
• Experience in financial services or sustainable finance, particularly in the challenges and opportunities within structuring or assessing financing structures for environmental outcomes.
• Familiarity with nature-related frameworks (e.g., TNFD) and UK policy (e.g., Biodiversity Net Gain).
• Familiarity with the use of locations based insights and analysis to support nature market project delivery and financing.
• Ability to analyse complex data and market trends, translating insights into strategic recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to influence across diverse teams.
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to apply logic and creativity to deliver effective solutions.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution (up to 15%)
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies