Richard Thomas

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Senior Manager, New Product Development @ Lloyds Banking Group
Cardiff, GB
Richard Thomas's Location
Greater Cardiff Area, United Kingdom
About Richard Thomas

Customer focused senior leader, with deep experience within Consumer and Commercial Bank Lending Products. Strong grounding in credit risk and analytics, ahead of moving into broader commercial roles shaping and delivering significant change and growth across Partnerships, Product Development and Digital. Proven track record in successful project delivery, experienced in contractual and commercial negotiations, with exceptional partner relationship and stakeholder management. Excellent interpersonal, matrix leadership and communication skills, and actively involved in improving workplace culture and colleague engagement.

Richard Thomas's Current Company Details
Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group

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Senior Manager, New Product Development
Cardiff, GB
Employees:
61911
Richard Thomas Work Experience Details
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Senior Manager, New Product Development
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Cardiff, Gb
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Director, Digital Origination, Business & Commercial Banking
    Lloyds Banking Group Jan 2024 - Present
    Designing and shaping Digital Origination journeys for Business Banking Lending & Working Capital customer needs.Business Banking customers are increasingly looking to apply for lending through browser or App devices, particularly for lower value, lending needs. This enables time poor business owners to apply at a time that is convenient for them, and receive a quicker time to decision. Ensuring excellent sales effectiveness, through removing friction and pain points, with human intervention only where it truly adds value, is critical to delivering best in class customer experience.Using my change, channel, product and credit risk experience to pull together the different threads, and create a delivery roadmap to unlock business and customer value, ensuring customer and colleague experience remains at the heart of decision making.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Director, Channel Development. Sme & Mid Corporate Banking
    Lloyds Banking Group Apr 2020 - Jan 2024
    SME and Mid Corporate business interface into Commercial Bank Transformation Origination Value Stream to develop a multi channel solution for colleagues and clients.The Commercial Banking landscape is changing. Neo Banks and Flanker Banks are raising the bar for how businesses are onboarded and serviced. Clients are increasingly looking to choose how they interact with their bank, with easy to use digital self-serve journeys for simple tasks, supplemented by a well connected Relationship Team to help with more complex banking needs.This is never more critical than recent experiences with Covid-19 has demonstrated, and how we are doing all we can to help colleagues and clients during this unprecedented period of uncertainty.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Senior Manager, Digital Channel, Lbg Credit Cards
    Lloyds Banking Group Feb 2012 - Apr 2020
    Cardiff, United Kingdom
    Accountable for credit card sales through Owned and Bought media channels for Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank credit cards.Drive the Digital Transformational Change agenda for Consumer Cards business, elevating the customer journey as we move into an increasingly digital landscape. At the forefront of embedding customer eligibility journey across all channels of acquisition, providing certainty for customers without adversely impacting credit files.Drove up digital usability scores, improved path to purchase conversion and customer NPS.Two year secondment to support the Portfolio Integration of the £1.9bn MBNA Credit Card Portfolio. Part of the Business Model Design team, taking a lead role in assessing strategic options to protect commercial value, and maintain customer engagement, whilst delivering against tight migration timelines.
  • Lloyds Banking Group
    Senior Manager, Loyalty Credit Cards
    Lloyds Banking Group Apr 2011 - Feb 2012
    Responsible for the Airmiles Duo and Duo Premier credit cards.Led the delivery of the Airmiles Duo rebrand to Avios in November 2011.
  • Lloyds Banking Group, Cards
    Head Of Partnerships And Affinities
    Lloyds Banking Group, Cards Aug 2008 - Apr 2011
    Responsible for managing all partner card portfolios, including Co Brand, Affinity and JV relationships. Accountable for delivering profit and volume plans, I oversee all aspects of the credit card life cycle from proposition through to account closure, managing internal and external stakeholders in the process.Involved in commercial negotiations to ensure goal congruence, I seek to deliver additional value to both sides of the partnership through continually looking to improve business performance.
  • Hbos
    Head Of Risk Partnerships
    Hbos Nov 2004 - Aug 2008
  • Hbos
    Head Of Credit Acquisition
    Hbos Jan 2002 - Nov 2004
  • Hbos Card Services
    Senior Analyst Credit Acquisition
    Hbos Card Services Jan 1999 - Jan 2002
  • Barclaycard
    Senior Technical Analyst
    Barclaycard Aug 1997 - Dec 1998

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Richard Thomas's current role is Senior Manager, New Product Development.

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Richard Thomas attended Durham University, University Of Warwick - Warwick Business School.

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