Credit Acquisition Strategies – Vice President

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Barclays as a Credit Acquisition Strategies – Vice President. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing credit acquisition strategies while interfacing with cross‑functional partners including Legal, Compliance, Finance, Second Line teams, and segment partners.

You will lead complex analytical work, transforming large datasets into actionable insights that drive credit card growth and risk optimization. You will bring deep experience in credit card business strategy, particularly acquisitions, along with strong technical fluency in analytical tools.

• Prior experience in credit card strategy, ideally in acquisition credit strategies
• Proficiency in SAS, SQL, and Python, with strong technical and statistical capabilities
• Ability to process and interpret large, complex datasets
• Exposure to partnership cards is preferred

• Ability to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups
• Strong presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
• High attention to detail with the ability to work independently
• Adaptability and comfort working in a fast‑paced, evolving environment

To use innovative data analytics and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from the bank's data reserves, leveraging these insights to inform strategic decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation across the organisation.

• Identification, collection, and extraction of data from various sources, including internal and external sources.
• Performing data cleaning, wrangling, and transformation to ensure its quality and suitability for analysis.
• Development and maintenance of efficient data pipelines for automated data acquisition and processing.
• Design and conduct of statistical and machine learning models to analyse patterns, trends, and relationships in the data.
• Development and implementation of predictive models to forecast future outcomes and identify potential risks and opportunities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to seek out opportunities to add value from data through Data Science.

• 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department's future needs and operations, counsel 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 strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and…