• Monitor Product Performance and Iterate:

  • Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs.

• Manage Ongoing Readiness and 'Run' Activities of Live Products:

  • Including monitoring, governance, and approvals.

• Risk and Control:

  • Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate, and escalate as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
• Or for an individual contributor, they lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally.
• They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed, that relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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

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.

Essential Skills

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills with stakeholders at all levels of seniority and across organizational boundaries.
• Change Agility Catalyst product insight and strong understanding of Change delivery best practice frameworks, processes, and tooling across the change lifecycle.
• Experience of leading user-centred design of solutions that address colleague needs and align with strategic objectives.
• Strong negotiation and partnership skills, with experience of executing successfully within a complex, cross-cutting programme or portfolio.

Desired Skills

• Ability to leverage a broad and diverse set of stakeholder perspectives and data-led insights to challenge the status quo and deliver creative, innovative products.
• Experience of agile change delivery ways of working, including establishing and managing priorities and delivering incremental value aligned to strategic objectives.
• Familiarity and strong understanding of the Persistent Teams funding model to ensure the design, evolution, and successful adoption of the model across the organization.
• Experience of driving business process transformation through simplification, digitization, and automation.

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.