Lloyds Banking Group
Strategy Director – Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB)

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Sunday 05 July 2026
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Job Description
Job Title: Strategy Director – Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB)
Location: London
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What you’ll be doing:
This role plays a key part in creating the Group’s strategy offering a chance to influence major business decisions and collaborate with senior leadership.
As a Strategy Director, you’ll lead and contribute to complex strategic initiatives across CIB and the wider Group. You’ll develop recommendations on high-profile topics, combining deep analysis and original research to advise decisions at GEC and Board level. You’ll also support the execution of these strategies, translate into real outcomes.
You’ll play a key role in shaping the Group’s corporate strategy, assessing the evolving operating environment and competitive landscape to ensure we continue to meet customer needs and deliver long-term shareholder value. Alongside this, you’ll produce insightful analysis on competitors, challenger banks and wider market trends, identifying themes with strategic implications.
Why join us?
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone, make change happen and challenge the status quo. Sound like you?
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What we’re looking for:
- 8+ years’ experience in strategy, corporate development, investment banking or consulting, with exposure to complex financial services environments
- Proven track record analysing large, complex datasets and translate insights into clear strategic recommendations
- Strong experience supporting or delivering strategic initiatives such as M&A, disposals or transformation programmes
- Ability to engage senior partners and contribute to Executive and Board-level discussions producing high-quality materials for diverse audiences
- Strong commercial awareness, with a clear understanding of market dynamics, competitors and investor expectations
And any experience of these would be great:
- Experience of strategy in the context of operations/technology would be beneficial
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this advert may reference specific experience, we recognise that skills are developed in different ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
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 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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.


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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
Like what you hear? Join us!
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.
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