Job Description

End Date Friday 04 August 2023

Salary Range \xc2\xa371,825 - \xc2\xa384,500

Agile Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours

Summary .



Job title: AI & Automation Lead

SALARY: \xc2\xa371,825 - \xc2\xa384,500

LOCATION(S): Halifax, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We\xe2\x80\x99re creating the movement to be a design-led, agile organisation where colleague experiences are frictionless, seamless, digital and productive across our entire colleague lifecycle.

We\xe2\x80\x99re on a mission to deliver enhanced physical, digital and virtual colleague experiences that fundamentally transform the way we all work. Do you want to be accountable for defining and leading LBG in new ways of working in this digital era?

Do you want to help lead the new way of thinking, planning and delivery of colleague experiences and services across the group? This includes driving forward the end-to-end experience across digital employee journeys, advancing our current technology eco-system, and improving our digital capability.

You\'ll work closely with the People Platform leadership team (business and technology change) to improve and revamp existing journeys and deliver new products and services, using Lloyds Banking Group\xe2\x80\x99s outstanding strengths and brand positioning to build experiences that are truly differentiated and market leading.

You\'ll be a strong creative leader, mentor and influencer, encouraged to use your experience in Artificial intelligence, Automation, Robotics and Innovation combined with agile approaches, to fundamentally change the way we plan and deliver people services and products.

Your knowledge and understanding of People/HR management across the colleague lifecycle will be used to:

Identify, plan and deploy opportunities for optimisation using our group technology eco-system

Help create People products and services that improve colleague experiences.

Leverage data for insights, and advise on how we optimise new and emerging technology such as GenAI

Scan the internal and external People Tech landscape to provide thought leadership and pragmatic guidance for application in the workforce

Ensure a balanced, ethical approach to the use of AI and emerging tech to enhance our productivity

Partner with divisions on tech and data science experiments as part of our PoV approach to infuse current and emerging technology and data to leverage our assets

Inspire a technology and data-led culture with an active community across LBG of key showcase events, hackathons and nurturing our internal talent.

We\xe2\x80\x99re on an exciting journey and there couldn\xe2\x80\x99t be a better time to join us. The investments we\xe2\x80\x99re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you\'ll need:

10+ years of experience in the application of emerging technologies preferably within the fields of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/ Robotic automation in at least one of the above-mentioned areas

You\xe2\x80\x99re as comfortable getting hands-on as well as taking a step back and thinking strategically and proactively identifying opportunities

Have worked in a complex HR Operations/Technology environment deploying leading solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiency

Demonstrable use of knowledge to influence and change strategy and operations

You bring a deep understanding of both technology and industry to include the market, vendors, products and user strategies in specific areas.

Experience developing/launching products/technologies within one or more of the following: AI, Cloud, SaaS, RPA, Enterprise Applications, Internal Help Desk, Customer Support

And any experience of these would be really useful:

Experience driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design decisions

Experience creating strategic product roadmaps, working with cross-functional teams

Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Artificial Intelligence and Automation

Enterprise SaaS PM experience, preferably in Workday

Domain expertise in IT and/or Human Resources

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\xe2\x80\x99s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We\xe2\x80\x99re disability confident. So if you\xe2\x80\x99d 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

30 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that\xe2\x80\x99s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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\xe2\x80\x99re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Lloyds Banking Group