VP, Strategic Initiatives

Join Barclays as a VP, Strategic Initiatives, where you will leverage your growth mindset and creative problem-solving skills to drive activities that span strategy, risk, and operations for the Total GAP portfolio. If your strengths are critical thinking, driving disruptive innovation, and getting things done, this is a perfect opportunity. Your work will position the program to realize its vision of delivering high-performing financial services for GAP’s most loyal customers through easy, rewarding, and culturally relevant payment experiences and products.

In addition to guiding a prioritized list of portfolio-wide strategic efforts, you will support the annual strategic planning process by examining the internal environment and the innovative landscape, including AI and machine learning solutions. You’ll also support mechanisms to deliver strategy, monitor progress (monthly business reviews and budget coordination), and improve operational excellence (CX listening sessions and action planning). You’ll be part of a team of VPs responsible for managing and sequencing the delivery of business intent (including Barclays-wide programs that impact the portfolio), building business requirements, and developing financial business cases to execute the overall program strategy.

• Covering Card or Financial Services programs
• Driving strategic projects and solving high-impact business tasks, with the ability to identify opportunities, influence stakeholders, and deliver measurable business results
• Coordinating retail financial services and co-brand partnerships, with progressive oversight experience overseeing partner programs and end-to-end P&L performance
• Leveraging a deep understanding of retail financial services, including co-brand, private label, and other payment solutions, to assess risk, optimize program performance, and drive growth.
• Communicating multi-layered business inquires with clarity, translating insights into strategic recommendations and actionable plans for senior stakeholders

• Ability to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment across multiple geographies
• Ability to work with ambiguity, providing structure to unstructured situations

This role is located in Wilmington, DE or Washington, DC.

Minimum Salary: $150,000

Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

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.