Media Relations Manager (FTC)

Group Corporate Affairs (GCA) is an award-winning team that offers the insight, advice, and challenge the Group requires to achieve its strategic objectives. We provide outstanding communications for key audiences, ensuring Lloyds Banking Group is recognised for Helping Britain Prosper.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and deliver proactive media campaigns that secure high-quality coverage and support business priorities.
• Handle media enquiries in a fast-paced news environment, providing clear and timely responses.
• Develop solid connections with journalists from national, broadcast, regional, and trade media.
• Collaborate closely with PR agencies, Group Corporate Affairs colleagues, and business teams to provide coordinated communications activity.
• Identify emerging issues and provide media advice that helps manage reputation and risk.
• Identify chances to create favourable coverage and introduce new concepts to the news agenda.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we're looking for:

• Strong media relations experience and an understanding of how newsrooms operate, ideally within a regulated environment.
• Established relationships across relevant media and confidence working with journalists.
• Strong news judgment and the capability to recognize stories that will connect with various audiences.
• Strong communication abilities, capable of conveying complex subjects clearly and engagingly.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities, responding quickly to changing demands and working at pace in a dynamic environment.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to build relationships with a wide range of collaborators.
• Someone who can rapidly become proficient, assume responsibility, and deliver results from the very first day.
• AI literacy: a curious outlook and proven experience of responsibly using AI to drive efficiency and enhance creativity.

This is a Place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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

If you have the skills we're seeking and are ready for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

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.