Senior Legal & Governance Innovation Manager

End Date

Monday 30 March 2026

Salary Range

£85,493 - £100,580

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

As a Senior Innovation Manager in Legal & Secretariat (L&S), you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how our function operates today — and what it becomes tomorrow. You’ll have a leading role in the design and delivery of our technology and innovation roadmap, ensuring L&S stays at the forefront of legal‑tech, data, and digital capability. Through strategic thinking, external insight, and hands‑on delivery, you’ll enable teams across L&S to work smarter, faster and with greater confidence.
You’ll join a fast‑moving, creative, forward‑thinking team that encourages experimentation. Modern tools are embraced, and transformation focuses on meaningful outcomes for our colleagues, partners and the organisation.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Legal & Governance Innovation Manager

SALARY: £83,411 - £98,130

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

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 one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

The Legal and Secretariat team is innovative with a clear ambition to be Future Ready – multi-skilled, agile, and optimising our use of technology and data. We provide legal and governance advice and support to business and functions across LBG in service of our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper. This role involves:

• Building a long‑term technology roadmap that aligns to our Future Ready strategy, group architecture and business needs.

• Prioritising high‑value opportunities and defining a compelling vision for how digital solutions will improve workflows, risk management, governance, and stakeholder experience.

• Using data, insight, and strategic analysis to guide decision‑making and drive measurable impact.

What you'll be doing

Driving end‑to‑end transformation

• Leading cross‑functional transformation initiatives from discovery to delivery, applying design thinking, agile methods, and human‑centred innovation.

• Working across L&S to modernise processes, simplify ways of working, and embed automation, AI, and digital tools.

Building and scaling technology solutions

• Leading the Microsoft Power Platform Centre of Excellence in L&S (team of 4).

• Translating business needs into product‑ready requirements; prototyping, testing, and deploying tools.

• Navigating governance and promoting the adoption of enabling technologies including Power Platform, workflow tools, data automation, and AI‑powered products.

Bringing the outside in

• Monitoring emerging trends across legal‑tech, AI, workflow digitisation, data innovation.

• Building relationships with external providers, industry bodies, and innovation networks.

Influencing and enabling at scale

• Partnering with senior stakeholders to align priorities and drive adoption.

• Communicating complex topics simply and persuasively.

Leading a high‑performing team

• Providing day-to-day leadership to a team of innovation colleagues, setting direction, and using coaching capability.

• Encouraging an inclusive and development-focused team culture.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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. Including you.

What you'll need

• A proven track record of delivering complex technology‑enabled transformation programmes including in regulated/legal/professional-services environments.

• Expertise in Microsoft ecosystem including Power Platform and Copilot.

• Experience in agile delivery or innovation methods

• A strong external network across legal-tech, innovation, and digital operations.

• Strategic thinking skills.

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.

About working for us

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.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. 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.