Director - Corporate Bond Syndicate

End Date Monday 26 January 2026 Salary Range £0 - £0 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Director, Corporate Bond Syndicate SALARY: Competitive salary package LOCATIONS: London HOURS: Full-time About this opportunity We’re seeking a highly skilled Corporate Syndicate Manager to join our dynamic Capital Markets team at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets (LBCM). This is a front‑office leadership role responsible for managing the execution, coordination, and distribution strategy of corporate bond issuance across a broad range of sectors and geographies. The ideal candidate brings strong market expertise, exceptional communication skills, and a proven ability to work under pressure while coordinating multiple internal and external stakeholders. Responsibilities include: Lead and manage all aspects of deal syndication for corporate bond transactions, from mandate through to pricing and post‑trade support. Coordinate with issuers, investors, legal counsel, and internal teams to ensure seamless transaction execution. Develop distribution strategies, evaluating market conditions and investor appetite to optimise bookbuild outcomes. Provide market colour, trade ideas, and execution guidance to both issuers and relationship teams. Maintain strong investor relationships across the institutional fixed‑income landscape. Prepare and deliver transaction updates, market briefings, and pricing recommendations to senior leadership and clients. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and best‑practice syndication standards. Support origination teams with pitch materials, market intelligence, and strategic insights. Monitors and manages a wide range of activities ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements by liaising with all internal risk management functions while supporting the development and implementation of the organisation's compliance policy. Manages transactions within the organisation's risk management and/or control process, contributing to the development and implementation of risk management policies and procedures. Manages the development and/or delivery of an element of the organisation's strategic planning. Ability to manage multiple high‑profile transactions simultaneously. About us If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. What you’ll need - Key skills & capabilities: Significant experience in corporate bond syndication, debt capital markets, or a related front‑office role. Deep understanding of primary market dynamics, pricing mechanisms, investor behaviour, and execution logistics. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market data and communicate it clearly. Proven ability to manage multiple high‑profile transactions simultaneously. Excellent stakeholder management and relationship‑building capabilities. High level of professionalism, attention to detail, and resilience in fast‑moving environments. 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! This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting, and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks As a certified colleague your details will be published on the FCA Financial Services Register This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC 27.8.18R as defined in the FCA Handbook The Person (“P”) performs the client-dealing FCA certification function for a firm if:(1) P is carrying out any of the activities in the table in SYSC 27.8.19R; and(2) those activities will involve P dealing with:(a) a person with or for whom those activities are carried out; or(b) the property of any such person;in a manner substantially connected with the carrying on of regulated activities by the firm. If you manage certified colleagues this role will be identified as Manager of certification employees under SYSC 27.8.13R as defined in the FCA Handbook(1) The function of managing or supervising a certification employee, directly or indirectly, is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.(2) A function in (1) is not an FCA certification function for that firm if it is performed by an SMF manager of that firm. 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.