Director - Corporate Bond Syndicate

Overview

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.

• 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.
• Monitor and manage a wide range of activities ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements by liaising with internal risk management functions while supporting the development and implementation of the organisation's compliance policy.
• Manage transactions within the organisation's risk management and/or control process, contributing to the development and implementation of risk management policies and procedures.
• Manage the development and/or delivery of an element of the organisation's strategic planning.
• Ability to manage multiple high-profile transactions simultaneously.

• 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. 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.

• 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

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. Successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role, with annual renewals. Colleagues performing this role will be published on the FCA’s 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 activities in SYSC 27.8.19R and (2) those activities involve dealing with a person or property in connection with 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.

The function of managing or supervising a certification employee is an FCA-specified significant-harm function.

We keep your data safe. We’ll only ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information after you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, at which point we run background checks. We are 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.

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including support for diversity and inclusion initiatives.

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. This role has been identified as a Client-dealing function under SYSC and is aligned with regulatory and governance expectations.