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Commercial Manager - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

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Commercial Manager - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Commercial Manager (Vice President)

In this role, Commercial Manager (Vice President), you will act as a growth specialist within Barclays’ Innovation Banking Scale Team, supporting Relationship Directors in delivering high-impact commercial conversations with a portfolio of high-value, scaling clients. You will work closely with both internal stakeholders, external prospects and intermediaries, joining regular client meetings to understand growth ambitions, shape business plans, and drive measurable outcomes. The outcomes will include winning high valuable new business, improving client retention, deepening client loyalty, enhanced NPS and deposit growth. You will play a key role in successful client progression, through the growth escalator of Innovation Banking. This is a newly created, client-facing role designed to strengthen Barclays’ ‘Scale Club’ offering and position the bank as the UK’s leading innovation partner.

You will support Relationship Directors by providing growth advisory, leveraging your experience within the innovation ecosystem to connect clients with relevant solutions, networks, and opportunities. Acting as a trusted partner, you will help navigate client needs, contribute to strategic growth plans, and utilise internal tools and processes to identify insights and opportunities. This individual contributor role requires stakeholder engagement, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, evolving environment, while influencing outcomes without direct ownership and embedding best practices across client engagement.

To be successful as a Commercial Manager – 12 Months Fixed Term Contract, you will have experience with:

  • Advising high-growth / scaling businesses (e.g. venture-backed or rapid growth environments).
  • Delivering commercial outcomes with senior stakeholders (e.g. revenue growth, retention, portfolio expansion).
  • Knowledge of the UK innovation ecosystem (start-ups, scale-ups, VC landscape).
  • Client analysis and growth planning using commercial or market frameworks.
  • Client-facing commercial, banking, or advisory role.

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.

Your role will be located from our London office.

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To drive the success of the commercial banking segment through market analysis, product development, sales and relationship management, risk management, and performance.

Accountabilities

  • Execution of market research to understand the competitive landscape, identify market trends and opportunities, and develop strategies to capture market share within the commercial banking segment, taking into consideration industry, size, and growth stage.
  • Development of appropriate pricing models for different products and services, ensuring profitability while remaining competitive in the market.
  • Development, implementation and management of innovative financial solutions, services and products aligned to the banks objectives and are tailored to the commercial banking segment, including loan products, cash management solutions, and trade finance services.
  • Identification and forging of strategic partnerships with other financial institutions, technology providers, or industry experts to expand product offerings and reach new client segments.
  • Management of key stakeholder relationships within target companies to understand their needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Development and implementation of sales strategies including the establishment of sales targets, identification of sales channels to reach potential clients and objectives for loan terms to support the negotiation process and development of service agreements.
  • Monitoring of key leading and lagging metrics such as new client acquisition, loan volume, revenue generation, and market share to assess the performance of the commercial banking segment. Funnel and journey optimisation are key to delivery of service and commercial performance.

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.

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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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Skills

Commercial Acumen
Stakeholder Engagement
Client Analysis
Growth Planning
Innovation Ecosystem
Strategic Partnerships
Sales Strategies
Market Research
Risk Management
Performance Monitoring
Client Retention
Business Development
Advisory Role
Negotiation Skills
Relationship Management
Problem Solving

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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