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Business Relationship Leader

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Business Relationship Leader
As a Business Relationship Leader, you will spearhead a growing team of Assistant Vice Presidents and a Vice President, fostering collaboration and driving performance. With your strategic oversight and flexibility to travel, you will engage seamlessly across in-office operations, in-person client interactions, and remote work.
Essential Criteria
- Proven team leadership experience in high-performing financial environments to lead and empower a team ensuring cohesion and professional growth.
- Drive business relationships with insight and confidence.
- Foster client engagement through forward-thinking communication, strategic triage, and solution-oriented outcomes.
- Robust commercial acumen with an eye for structured finance nuances and client impact.
Desirable Criteria
- Drive business development and revenue growth within existing client relationships by identifying new opportunities, strengthening partnerships, and expanding service offerings.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
Location
This role will be based in Glasgow.
Purpose of the Role
To manage relationship management initiatives and set the strategic direction. Provide support to the bank's senior management team, and manage product development risk across the organisation.
Accountabilities
- Development of strategic direction for relationship management, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
- Management of relationship management initiatives, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
- Relationship management of relationship management stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
- Development and implementation of policies and procedures for relationship management.
- Management of relationship management risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s relationship management and compliance functions.
- Monitoring the financial performance of relationship management, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
- Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.
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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
- For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their 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 their 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.


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Barclays Values and Mindset
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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