Market and Competitor Intelligence Specialist

Join us as a Market & Competitor Intelligence Specialist, a key member of the Commercial Development Team within the Private Bank & Wealth Management Commercial Office. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Development, this role is designed to focus on monitoring and analysing market and competitor data to generate valuable insights into the competitive landscape. Your work will empower the PBWM front office and enable the business to make more informed, strategic decisions.

In this role, you will collect and evaluate data to assess the impact of competitor activity on PBWM, developing and maintaining a comprehensive database of competitor information, including products, market share, and marketing strategies. You will collaborate closely with the Product, Marketing, and Strategy teams to ensure the information is up-to-date and relevant. Your insights will be used to support Private Bankers and Wealth Managers in client meetings, providing them with easy-to-understand competitor insights. Additionally, you will monitor industry news to identify potential market threats and opportunities, sharing your findings with colleagues across the Commercial Office and senior management.

To be successful as a Market & Competitor Intelligence Specialist, you should have experience with:

•    Conducting market and competitor research within financial services or related industries.
•    Exceptional analytical skills, including experience with data mining, gathering, and analysis.
•    Providing actionable insights through report production and highlighting key findings for stakeholders.
•    Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate information both in writing and verbally.
•    Excellent relationship-building abilities, with a collaborative approach to engaging stakeholders across the business.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

•    Expertise in using advanced data analysis tools and techniques to extract insights from large datasets.
•    In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry, including market trends, competitor strategies, and regulatory developments.
•    Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise reports and presentations for senior stakeholders.

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 may be based out of London or Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To collect, analyse, and interpret data and insights through qualitative and quantitative market research projects to drive informed decision-making

Accountabilities

• Execution of qualitative and quantitative market research projects to gather data and insights to aid business decision making, presentation of findings to stakeholders, providing actionable recommendations.
• Development and maintenance of strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure market research projects are clearly delivering against business objectives and findings are impacting activity.
• Adherence to governance standards for data privacy and knowledge management.
• Budget management for insight-related activities, ensuring cost - effectiveness and a positive return on investment.

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.