Looking for a dynamic role with a leading financial institution? Lloyds Banking Group is hiring a Commercial Virtual Assistant Associate on a 9-month fixed-term contract. This hybrid opportunity is primarily based in Bristol, with consideration for candidates in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds.
This role offers the chance to work in a forward-thinking environment, leveraging AI-driven virtual assistant technology to enhance customer experiences. Ideal for professionals with a keen interest in digital innovation, automation, and commercial banking, this position provides valuable exposure to cutting-edge financial solutions.
Join a team committed to shaping the future of banking while developing expertise in virtual assistance, customer interactions, and AI-driven support.
About Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Banking Group is one of the UK’s leading financial services providers, offering a comprehensive range of banking and financial solutions tailored to retail and commercial customers. Committed to Helping Britain Prosper, the group focuses on fostering a more sustainable and inclusive future for individuals and businesses. By leveraging financial expertise, Lloyds Banking Group aims to shape the industry as a force for good, driving positive economic and social impact.
Position: Commercial Virtual Assistant Associate
Salary: £43,803 to £48,670 a year
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Bristol (Primary location), Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh (Hybrid Working)
About the Role
We’re on a journey to transform how we provide our clients with support in our secure app and desktop via our Virtual Assistant (VA). Support varies from providing guidance on how to change a business address through to how to make an international payment in our online channels.
The role is integral in making sure our customers can get quality, accurate help by delivering great support when and where they need it. You’ll manage the content in our Business Mobile Banking App and Desktop Virtual Assistants, focusing on continual improvement, informed by regular and insightful measuring and reporting of performance. You’ll be focussed on making data-led decisions, helping the team set up the reporting to make this happen and proactively identifying opportunities to further improve how we support customers online.
LOCATION: Primary location is Bristol. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will also be considered.
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in one of or office hubs.
About the business
Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is changing and responding to the rapid transformation of our sector, helping us to be the best bank for customers. We’re embracing creative, agile and simpler ways of working, to make a difference to the constantly evolving needs of colleagues, customers and our business.
Our Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) division have business clients across a wide variety of sectors – from small businesses to multinational corporations. Many of the clients we support are household names, driving UK growth, and we’ve pledged to help the UK economy by helping British businesses. Within BCB is our Digital Channels business, which has been built to design and deliver great end to end experiences for our clients across digital.
About this opportunity
We’re on a journey to transform how we provide our clients with support in our secure app and desktop via our Virtual Assistant (VA). Support varies from providing guidance on how to change a business address through to how to make an international payment in our online channels.
The role is integral in making sure our customers can get quality, accurate help by delivering great support when and where they need it. You’ll manage the content in our Business Mobile Banking App and Desktop Virtual Assistants, focusing on continual improvement, informed by regular and insightful measuring and reporting of performance. You’ll be focussed on making data-led decisions, helping the team set up the reporting to make this happen and proactively identifying opportunities to further improve how we support customers online.
Responsibilities include:
- Review customers virtual assistant interactions to identify areas for improvement, increasing customer satisfaction and user experience
- Gather data and regularly report on performance, using insight to drive optimisations and shape the backlog/roadmap
- Upgrade the virtual assistance’s look and tone of voice to align with the Lloyds rebrand
- Collaborate with product managers, maintaining an understanding of upcoming digital journey changes to ensure the VA is kept up to date
- Collaborate with developers, communicating and sharing requirements, managing the VA’s build and deployments
- Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in AI and VA technologies
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
- Ability to build, maintain and influence relationships with stakeholders in Commercial/Business Banking teams and beyond
- Always trying to find new ways to improve what we do and striving to continually develop your skills to do so
- Ability to make data driven decisions and proactive in your approach
- Continuously motivated to improve the customer experience
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, and build 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’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d 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%
- A discretionary annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 28 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!
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
Interested? APPLY NOW to join this dynamic team!
Application Deadline
March 5, 2025