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Head of Pensions Investment – Funding
Lloyds Banking Group. Lead the Pensions Investment and Funding Team of specialists .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in developing and implementing investment and funding strategies for Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution schemes, with a strong focus on risk management, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership.
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Leadership ExperiencePension Funding KnowledgeInvestment Strategy DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementPortfolio Construction
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Hard Skills
Investment StrategyFunding StrategyRisk ManagementPortfolio ManagementAsset AllocationHedging TechniquesLiability ModellingDerivatives KnowledgeContingent Capital ArrangementsActuarial Assumptions
Soft Skills
Stakeholder EngagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Thinking
Certifications & Qualifications
CFAFIA
Industry Keywords
Defined Benefit SchemesDefined Contribution SchemesPension FundInvestment CommitteeTrusteeClimate Risk PoliciesLiquidity ManagementEmerging RisksResponsible InvestmentAsset Performance
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the Pensions Investment and Funding Team of specialists
- Develop and implement investment and funding strategies for Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution schemes
- Provide day-to-day oversight of schemes’ investment and funding arrangements
- Advise and support the Trustee and Group Pensions Director on funding, investment, covenant risk and risk management
- Manage approximately £35bn of pension scheme assets and liabilities within delegated authorities
- Support strategic objectives and risk tolerance relating to funding, investment and covenant
- Work with investment and funding committees, the Trustee’s strategic investment adviser and the Group
- Analyse and challenge investment strategies, including hedging of LDI, FX and longevity risks and asset allocation
- Manage the portfolio, liquidity, hedges, return potential, de-risking and responses to threats and opportunities
- Execute and implement strategy, set mandates, monitor and challenge fund managers and manage third-party relationships
- Ensure delegated authorities remain appropriate for ongoing portfolio management
- Advise on Defined Contribution investment strategies and identify opportunities to improve member fund choices
- Maintain robust internal controls and identify emerging risks and de-risking strategies
- Support funding discussions and collaborate with the Group on asset performance, hedging, liquidity and collateral optimisation
- Deliver performance, risk and management information and reports to the Trustee and Group
- Develop and maintain responsible investment and climate risk policies
- Lead and motivate specialist investment professionals and ensure appropriate team resourcing
- Monitor market developments
Requirements
What you’ll need- Proven leadership experience with demonstrable success in a large organisation, ideally with experience working for a major pension fund or in a senior investment role
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including managing politically sensitive relationships and engaging with trustees, advisers, providers and senior Group stakeholders
- Proven experience navigating highly complex and technical pension funding and investment concepts
- Knowledge and understanding of liability structures and actuarial assumptions
- Broad investment knowledge across multiple asset classes and subclasses
- Knowledge of derivatives and leverage
- Experience with portfolio construction
- Experience with techniques to model liabilities and assets and hedge risk
- Knowledge of contingent capital arrangements
- Inspiring people leadership and strategic thinking
- CFA or FIA qualification desirable
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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
- Generous parental leave policies
- Flexible working options, including hybrid working and job share
- Workplace adjustments for colleagues with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition
- Recruitment process adjustments for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition
- Opportunities to learn, grow and develop