VP - Deal Support Team

Embark on a transformative journey as a VP Deal Support Team at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

Overall purpose of the role:

VP - UKC In Business Deal Support Team will play a pivotal role in driving strategic initiatives, organizational transformation, and operational excellence. The role requires close collaboration with business and senior leadership to develop and implement business strategies that align with organizational goals. Acting as a liaison between different business units and functions, the VP will foster communication and collaboration to support the team’s mission and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in strategy development to define the future role and activities of the Deal Support Team.
• Partner with leadership to define and execute business strategies, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and compliance mandates.
• Manage performance of the individual members of the Deal Support Team and maintain high motivation and commitment levels
• Serve as a conduit between business units, promoting effective cross-functional collaboration and information flow.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, streamline processes, and implement best practices to enhance productivity and effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce strategic objectives and support external commitments.
• Contribute to financial analysis and budget management, including financial planning, forecasting, and monitoring performance against targets.
• Support business leads in partnership with HR on hiring, workforce planning, and joiner/mover/leaver actions to ensure optimal team structure and capability.
• Lead workforce planning, demand forecasting, budgeting, and cost-saving initiatives.
• Maintain rigor around hiring controls, early career demand, in-role promotions, diversity, and attrition management.
• Drive business contingency planning, location strategy, succession planning, restacking, and hybrid ways of working initiatives.
• Monitor, track, collate, review, and report key metrics to enable adherence to targets and drive continuous improvement.

Role Requirements:

• Experience in change management, strategy development, and chief of staff responsibilities, preferably within a large-scale business support or operations environment.
• Strong leadership and team development skills, with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Solid financial acumen and experience in budgeting, forecasting, and performance monitoring.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-intensity, results-oriented environment.
• Track record of delivering on strategic goals and driving operational improvements.
• High degree of self-motivation, initiative, and resilience.

You may be assessed on 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 job position will be based out of Noida /Gurugram.

Purpose of the role

To support coverage to grow income for both new and existing customers by providing marketing leading tools, a world class learning & development programme as well as analytical support in terms of sales management tools to contribute to the overall success of UKC. 

Accountabilities

• Design, execution and embedding of an ongoing roadmap to provides market leading Tools for RDs and Coverage.
• Design, execution and embedding of an ongoing training plan to provide ‘World Class Learning’.
• Support the delivery of market leading client collateral to provide a competitive advantage to RDs.   .
• Collaboration with Product to develop market leading industry/segment focused products and multi product solutions and Develop and drive initiatives.
• Development of the data capability across UK Corporate to enable delivery of client insights to drive acquisitions and increase wallet share.
• Maximise the positive impact of UCRM and Salesforce as a tool for Corporate Banking.
• Implementation of agreed minimum standards and best practices across UK Corporate  and support this with sales management tools to drive overall success.

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.