Senior Strategy Manager

Join us as a Senior Strategy Manager at Barclays where you’ll be primarily responsible for Business Banking strategy definition, including defining target segments, portfolio makeup, industry/sector verticals, commercial opportunity and outcomes. You will champion innovative approaches and best practices to drive meaningful impact.

To be successful as a Senior Strategy Manager, you should have experience with:

• Extensive strategic acumen, including an excelling understanding of the microeconomic landscape and broader economic trends across banking and other industries
• Sophisticated Commercial acumen with the ability to connect data to business impact and make informed, numbers driven decisions to an executive level audience
• Advanced Good storytelling skills and ability turn complex ideas into clear, engaging messages
• Evidence of extensive strategy or consultancy experience
• Evidence of previous leadership experience

Some other highly valued skills include:

• experience of converting strategic ideas to delivery
• Executive level reporting

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 will be located London, Canary Wharf or Knutsford, Radbroke

To provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices.

• Provision of strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision-making process of business challenges and opportunities.
• Development and implementation of strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank’s operations, through market research and analysis.
• Collaboration with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction type to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Development of financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions through financial data analysis, financial projects and considering the financial impact of transactions.
• Management of transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post-transaction integration.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships, and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identification of industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking and developments related to strategic advisory services by attendings conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and…