Executive Recruiter Investment Banking

Join our Executive Hiring team and play a pivotal role in shaping senior leadership talent across Investment Banking in EMEA, partnering with business leaders to deliver exceptional executive recruitment outcomes. Our global Talent Acquisition team proactively attracts the most talented candidates, recruiting over 30,000 hires a year, from Early Careers through to Senior Executives. We support our hiring community through our selection, assessment and offer processes, empower colleagues to plan and manage their careers, and are the heart of Barclays' ambition to be a sought after employer. We support the business to develop our current workforce and plan effectively for the future, creating opportunities for both colleagues and external candidates to rise.

To be successful as an Investment Banking Executive Recruiter the ideal candidate must have:

• Executive recruitment experience within a major global or bulge-bracket bank.

• Investment Banking recruitment expertise.

• Experience working with executive search firms and retained search models.

• Exposure to international and EMEA hiring activity.

• Advanced Excel capabilities for day-to-day data management, reporting, and analytics, ensuring the timely delivery of accurate, data-driven presentations, talent market intelligence, and recruitment performance insights for senior stakeholders.

• Strong financial and compensation data analysis skills.

• Experience partnering closely with HR Business Partners, Compensation and Senior Leadership teams.

Other highly desirable skills will include:

• Candidates from executive search or specialist recruitment firms with relevant financial services experience.

• Background in Executive Search preferred with an understanding of direct recruitment within Investment Banking.

• Actively seeks to understand and manage client expectations

• Understands how to push back on unreasonable expectations whilst maintaining a “can do” attitude

This role is based in London with 3 days in office, subject to business requirements.

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.

Purpose of the role

To source, attract and hire executive level talent across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Build and maintain an executive talent pipeline to anticipate hiring needs.

• Provide hiring recommendations and assist in the negotiation of job offers.

• Manage key stakeholders, including people leaders, HR colleagues, and executive search firms.

• Monitor and report key recruitment metrics like time-to-fill, cost per hire, and source of hire.

• Identify areas for improvement and optimization in the recruitment process.

• Conduct full lifecycle recruitment including: 
  o    Client briefing and understanding the role.
  o    Initial research to build a longlist of candidates.
  o    Manage interviews and feedback loops between search firms, clients, interview panels, and candidates.
  o    Ensure a best-in-class client and candidate experience.

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.