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Join LGPS Central at a pivotal moment, where investment meets long term impact. Based in Wolverhampton, the successful candidate will work closely with the Governance Manager, Company Secretary and Chief Legal, Compliance and Risk Officer (CLCRO) to ensure the effective management of the firm’s governance framework. What you'll be doing: As a Governance Officer you will: • Administrative oversight and co-ordination of all of the firm’s Tier One, Tier Two and Tier Three governance bodies, including:, • Drafting and coordinating agendas;, • Drafting minutes;, • Co-ordinating and quality control around packs of papers;, • Circulating papers and engaging with recipients;, • Supporting stakeholder engagement., • Prompting and enforcing deadlines / ensuring effective scheduling., • Support the Governance Manager in the administrative oversight and co-ordination for ‘Tier One’ governance bodies (currently including the LGPSC Board and its sub-committees and the firm’s subsidiary company boards), the Executive Committee and the company’s annual shareholder meetings., • Ensure consistency and high standards of governance retained throughout the organisation., • Timeously assisting with corporate filings with Companies House for the firm and its subsidiaries, including annual confirmation statements., • Supporting the oversight and reporting around the integrity and efficiency of governance processes., • Assisting with the management of key suppliers in support of the governance framework., • Managing the ‘effectiveness’ reviews of the Tier One, Tier Two and Tier Three bodies., • Oversight of the Company Structure Charts, ensuring these are maintained and updated appropriately (including the Governance Structure Chart)., • Assisting with the annual review of the Company’s Committee Terms of Reference (Tier 1, 2 and 3). About Us LGPS Central (LGPSC) Ltd is the FCA regulated asset manager for fourteen local authority pension funds across the Midlands. LGPSC is jointly owned on an equal shares basis by those Partner Fund, and it is responsible for managing £100bn+ of their assets. It is one of six Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) asset pools in the UK. LGPS Central’s Partner Funds are: • Cheshire Pension Fund, • Derbyshire Pension Fund, • Leicestershire Pension Fund, • Nottinghamshire Pension Fund, • Shropshire Pension Fund, • Staffordshire Pension Fund, • West Midlands Pension Fund, • Worcestershire Pension Fund, • Gloucestershire Pension Fund, • Hampshire Pension Fund, • Sulfolk County Council, • Wiltshire Pension Fund, • Norfolk Pension Fund, • Oxfordshire Pension Fund The Company is committed to responsible investment and has made responsible investment a core part of the investment process in every asset class. LGPS Central offers a friendly and diverse, hybrid working environment with a range of employee benefits. The Company moved to new premises at i9, Wolverhampton Interchange in January 2022, close to local transport links. Our objective is to be a leading investment management company working with and for our Partner Funds. With a focus on value for money and performance we want to aspire to be one of the best because this is how we will deliver the superior investment returns and low costs for our Partner Funds Requirements • A track-record of governance experience in the financial services or corporate sectors., • An awareness of best practice governance principles and practice and experience in reinforcing those., • The ability to operate to high standards of professional integrity., • Excellent inter-personal and relationship management skills., • Highly organised and able to meet deadlines in a professional and timely manner., • Excellent written and verbal communication skills., • Must be fully conversant in Microsoft Office applications including PowerPoint and use of databases such as Excel, Word, Sharepoint, and have the ability to learn new software quickly (including board management tools)., • Desire to provide services within a culture of customer focus, continuous improvement and service excellence. Qualifications: • NVQ Level 4 or other qualification in Business Administration, Governance, Company Secretarial and/or equivalent in- job experience operating in a governance type administrative role. What do we offer? We are proud to provide our people with a premium and exclusive benefits package and we are continually improving the rewards we offer. Here are a few of the valuable rewards that you will enjoy: • Competitive salary, • An enhanced and generous Pension Scheme, • 30 days' paid holiday plus bank holidays, • 2 days paid volunteering days, • An extra paid Company Day in addition to paid holidays, • Excellent Learning & Development Opportunities, • Welfare and Family friendly policies, • Enhanced pay for new parents, • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme 247 Health & Wellbeing Support, • Vitality Private Medical Insurance, • Hybrid Working, • Company Service Awards, • Cycle to work scheme, • Company Electric Vehicle Scheme, • Winner of the Cultural Awareness Initiative of the Year FT Advisors Diversity in Finance Awards 2023, • Winner of Diversity and Inclusion Award LAPF In Investments Award 2023, • Winner of LAPF Investment Innovation, • Winner of Pool of the Year 2025

* * LOCATION: Milton Keynes with occasional travel HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role. CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent opportunity CLOSING DATE: 15/5/26 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications. We’re looking for a highly experienced and inspirational commercial leader with a significant sales based background within a Captive Automotive Financial Services organisation and/or OEM. You'll report into our CEO and will drive our business forward through our teams in Sales, Sales Compliance and Development and, through strong, productive relationships across Volkswagen Group, our dealer network and brands. In this pivotal and influential position you will use your extensive commercial leadership skills to develop and deliver the Retail Sales strategy to maximise distribution channels, while creating opportunities and optimising new routes to market. You will role model our Guiding Principles, build a culture of psychological safety and inclusion and, provide ethical leadership to deliver great customer outcomes. What you’ll bring: You’ll be a forward thinking, strategic and motivational leader who delivers results through people, cross-functional teams, and 3rd parties to support the delivery of volume, breadth, and profit objectives. You’ll have a progressive and developmental mindset with demonstrable experience of developing strategic commercial initiatives. Essential experience & skills you’ll need to be a success in this role: • You have extensive experience in customer-facing environments with specific skills implementing and managing risk strategies, strong financial management, leading cross functional teams and functional management., • Through your experience of developing and managing customer facing processes, you have ensured fair treatment, transparency, value to customers and all other guidance from regulators has been accomplished., • More generally, you’ll have experience within regulated environments - ideally by the FCA along with a deep understanding of the UK business governance and regulatory regime and requirements implementation com pliance monitoring and management specifically, in organisations of a comparable size and scale., • You have successfully driven change and you're comfortable in dynamic, changing environments in a leading role., • You have well-developed emotional intelligence, influencing and communication skills which you can use to share information, listen, and create two-way dialogue that builds openness and commitment and, involve others to maximise contribution overall., • With great skills of analysis, you can interpret issues objectively to make sound decisions for the business that uphold our customer needs and good customer outcomes as a priority, • You are highly proactive, flexible, pragmatic, and able to react appropriately and effectively to changing circumstances and demands., • You'll effortlessly fit into the Commercial leadership structure with the potential for growth within FS or the OEM., • You’re collaborative and ambitious and work in the interest of customer and stakeholders, even when your own objectives are challenged., • You’ll report to the Chief Executive Officer for VWFS UK Ltd and lead the Retail Sales department and the teams responsible for Finance Sales, Sales Compliance, Sales Development and Dealer Network Oversight., • You’ll be responsible for developing sales strategies, policies, and procedures for the UK VWFS Group companies., • Develop and maintain strong productive relationships across senior management, departments, brands and key stakeholders., • Your span of control is across VWFS UK, VW Bank GmbH and compliance is required across the European Organisational Handbook (E-OHB), the FCA and the European Central Bank (ECB)., • You’ll have a team of circa. 50 people who work with our dealer network of circa. 800 sites to drive FS and network performance., • Be an agent for change by embracing new ways of working, innovative technologies and agile attitudes to work promoting ‘minimal viable everything’ attitude to encourage a collective growth mind-set in support of modernisation of the business., • You’ll develop and implement plans to meet objectives through existing and new routes to market by utilising current and, establishing new relationships with 3rd party retailers, emerging technology, and tech providers., • Plan and deliver sales, margin and market penetration objectives., • Lead sales activity that complies with internal and external regulations with the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC) taking precedence over conflicting guidelines – this includes Vulnerable customers, product suitability and transparency and, behaviours and competence of introducers of our products., • Use strong negotiation skills with our network and 3rd parties, to grow sales, protect margin and support good customer outcomes., • Effectively manage introducer relationships through a robust communication infrastructure, clear performance indicators, and development with corrective action in place as appropriate., • Lead the sales engagement with our Enterprise Risk Framework and develop robust and effective reporting to support transparency with regulators., • You’ll engage and cooperate with VW companies in the UK to coordinate and implement joint strategies and build and maintain an effective industry network., • You’ll play a leading role within our Credit Assessment & Retailer Services functions. What’s in it for you? Bonus: Discretionary on-target bonus of up to 25% (based on personal and Group company performance) Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution. Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance and fuel card. OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member. Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers , access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions). Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you with the option to buy additional family cover/ and your family access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover , so you can select the benefits that matter to you. We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work. * * * Why join VWFS UK? You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers. No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team. The Retail Sales Director is a ‘Certified’ /Senior Manager role under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SMCR) and the role holder is required to comply with the FCA’s Conduct Rules. A mandatory requirement of the SMCR is for VWFS to certify that the role holder is fit and proper to perform the duties on an ongoing basis.

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