Barclays
Business Relationship Manager

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Job Description
Purpose of the Role
To establish and nurture profitable partnerships with both corporate and individual clients. It's the bridge between the bank's offerings and clients' needs, ensuring mutual benefit and long-term success.
Accountabilities
- Management of client relationships: To identify the clients' financial goals, challenges, and risk tolerance.
- Support the analysis of data: Obtained from various sources, including the investment portfolio and cash flow, to identify trends, insights, areas for improvement and additional services to support client needs.
- Research and understanding: Of the client's industry trends, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment to inform strategic recommendations.
- Design of customised solutions: That address the client's specific needs and objectives, incorporating a range of products and services from the bank's portfolio.
- Communication of the value proposition: Of proposed solutions, justification of recommendations, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.
- Provision of guidance to clients: To support their financial decisions, offering expert investment advice, risk management and wealth management strategies support, and updates on market trends to ensure a positive and continuous relationship.
- Assessment of financial, legal, and operational risks: Associated with client relationships, and implementation of measures to minimise potential losses.
- Documentation of all client interactions, transactions, and agreements: To ensure transparency and auditability, and communicate findings effectively to support product development, service offerings, and the overall bank strategy.
- Monitoring of client satisfaction, revenue generated, and other relevant metrics: To evaluate the effectiveness of relationship management efforts.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- Advise and influence decision making: Contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks: Using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
- Set objectives and coach employees: In pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
- 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues: Providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk: And developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk: And strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related: To that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work: For business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis: Of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information: 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders: To achieve outcomes.
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As Business Relationship Manager, you will be highly motivated and passionate about helping local businesses across different sectors to achieve their strategic goals. Acting as the face of Barclays, you will be managing relationships with existing clients as well as identifying ways to attract new clients. This role requires excellent diary management skills along with the ability to travel as you will visit local clients in both urban and rural areas. Professional communication skills will be key to succeeding in this role, along with the ability to work independently.
Essential Criteria
- Client Relationship Management
- Proven Lending Experience
- A proven record of helping business achieve their goals
Desirable Criteria
- Business development
- Experience of building KBI Network to offer solutions that will help each business area
- Previous experience within Banking/Financial Services
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.
Location
This role will be based in Belfast.
Our Work Experience
Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard-working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.
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