This is your chance to take the first steps in your working career while continuing with Education. Could a 1-year Industrial Placement in the Group Sourcing & Supplier Management (GS&SM) team be that step?
As an Industrial Placement you’ll learn about the industry and gain experience on communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, personal impact and core sourcing and supplier management skills.
As a group, we spend significant amounts with thousands of suppliers, who support the provision of a diverse and complex range of products and/or services.
Group Sourcing and Supplier Management (GS&SM) play an important role in both cost savings and risk management. We collaborate with the businesses to ensure we understand their real needs and assist them with making informed decisions on the goods and services that the Group acquires.
We invest our money wisely with suppliers who can help us deliver our mission, which is to create a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
This placement involves being in two six-month roles under two separate teams. Each of these teams form an integral part of GS&SM and help the Group buy the right product at the right price and at the right time.
The 6-month rotation will be within one of the below teams:
- Sourcing Transactions - this team plays a vital role supporting lower value and lower risk contracts across a range of suppliers and needs
- IT Resource - we help colleagues outsource their technology needs
- Supplier Assurance - responsible for ensuring policy compliance on our highest risk suppliers
- Supplier Management - overseeing over 300 technology suppliers to support the Group’s digitization strategy
- Consultancy Sourcing - we help the business access consultancy services, crucial for shaping and delivering the Group’s strategic objectives
- IT Sourcing – we help the technology teams access market leading technology.
- Sourcing & Supply Chain Management Process Improvement - the design, development and support of sourcing and supplier management processes, strategies and frameworks
- Supply Chain Sustainability - this team ensures our suppliers contributes to our goal to be a Net Zero business by 2050 as well as meeting Social Sustainability standards
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!
What you’ll need
We’ll be looking for someone in their penultimate year of University that has at least a Grade 6 in GCSE Maths & English and is on track to obtain a 2:2 degree or above along with the below skills:
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Interpersonal skills
- A desire to understand more about financial services and a procurement department
- A strong growth mindset, eager to drive your own development and make the most out of opportunities
- Good communication and collaboration
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.
If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, 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.
- 22 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours! Join us and grow with purpose.
