Innovation Strategy and Insights Lead

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Join Barclays as Innovation Strategy and Insights Lead, where you’ll be responsible for driving strategy aligned with Barclays' mission of innovation and the evolving market landscape. You will bring your expertise in identifying and assessing strategic opportunities for innovation, ensuring they align with Barclays' long-term objectives, market trends, and emerging technologies.

• Innovation & Strategic Rigor:
  Experience in identifying and assessing strategic opportunities for innovation in relation to Barclays' strategy, market developments, and technology trends. Ability to adapt and craft emergent strategies in line with a rapidly changing external environment. A creative mindset with the ability to challenge the status quo and bring fresh ideas.
• Strategic Planning & Market Insight:
  Ability to conduct market analysis, identify opportunities, customer trends, and competitive threats, and craft and execute strategic innovation plans that position Barclays for success.
• Communication & Stakeholder Influence:
  Strong ability to communicate, collaborate, and influence senior executives, business leaders, regulators, and partners. Excellent storytelling, presentation, facilitation and negotiation skills to drive alignment on strategic initiatives.

• Data Analysis & Insight Generation:
  Strong analytical mindset with the ability to extract meaningful insights from large data sets, including financial performance data and customer analytics, to inform strategic decisions.
• Technology Literacy:
  Proficiency in modern technologies (digital platforms, AI, emerging technologies) with experience of applying strategically to drive innovation.
• Regulatory Acumen & Risk Awareness:
  Deep understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management practices, with the ability to navigate constraints and integrate them into innovation strategies.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Glasgow.

To collaborate, nurture and drive group innovation with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the bank stays at the forefront of innovation and adapts to the rapidly changing landscape in financial services and increasing customer expectations.

• Collaboration with a range of stakeholders to develop a portfolio of open innovation and strategic initiatives through experimentation, co-creation, access to innovative technology capabilities, products and services and a global innovation ecosystem.
• Development and delivery of frameworks, ideation, training and tools to build a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing to enable new and creative ideas/solutions that deliver on the bank’s strategy.
• Provision of a global platform and curated ecosystem of partners to inform strategy, drive connectivity and new insights.
• Development of the strategic capabilities and programmes for the bank to deliver on its strategy, supporting the exploration, evaluation and execution of innovation and investment opportunities.
• Management and coordination between external stakeholders/partners and the bank, to successfully deliver joint projects and initiatives.
• Deliver thought leadership and insights to inform strategic decision making and organisational readiness, in conjunction with regular research, identifying emerging technologies and trends.
• Development and management of key metrics including key partnerships, innovation initiatives and impact through regular assessments to calculate the return on investment and identify any potential risks and issues.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team…