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Date live: Oct. 14, 2025

Business Area: Trade & Working Capital

Area of Expertise: Relationship Management

Reference Code: JR-0000077692

Contract: Permanent

Join us as a Trade and Working Capital Europe Client Management where you will provide sales and service support to a portfolio of Global and Large Corporate clients and to the frontline origination teams. You will proactively liaise with clients and manage a wide range of queries and requests from Clients, Coverage and Trade Directors. The clients will be from a range from global corporates, key clients and large corporates.

Trade and Working Capital (TWC) provides working capital solutions to clients and non-clients across all segments of the EU market. The TWC product suite includes Trade Finance & Receivables Finance based products provided via a team of specialists across the EU.

To be successful in this role you will need:

  • Proven experience in a customer facing role, meeting client demands while also keeping aligned to internal policy/procedure.
  • Knowledge of the Trade Product set and experience in how this is used in the day-to-day management of client’s working capital/risk management strategies.
  • Credit risk understanding
  • Understanding of corporate and financial issues
  • Product knowledge and previous experience with TWC products
  • Sales and business development skills

Desirable skills include:

  • Ability to multi-task
  • Communications and influence
  • A good corporate awareness

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 deemed as a Controlled Function role under the Central Bank of Ireland Fitness and Probity Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks

This role is located in Dublin.

Purpose of the role

To provide administrative, operational, and analytical support to the sales team, ensuring smooth sales processes, maintenance of customer relationships, and contribution to the overall success of the sales function. 

Accountabilities

  • Provision of support to sales teams including administrative support through the maintenance and preparation of sales reports and customer databases, and relationship manage initiatives with key clients.
  • Preparation of sales proposals, presentations, and contracts for potential clients.
  • Management of customer information and enquiry/issue resolutions, including the tracking of customer interactions, and accurate maintenance of customer records.
  • Coordination with various internal departments, such as operations, legal, and compliance, to ensure smooth execution of sales processes and timely delivery of products or services to customers.
  • Analysis of sales data to support the identification of trends, tracking of sales performance, and provision of insights to the sales team for strategic decision-making.
  • Market research for identification of potential leads, target markets, and competitive intelligence to support sales strategies and initiatives.

Vice President Expectations

  • 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 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 governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

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