Barclays
Learning and Development Team Manager - Wholesale Lending
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Job Description
Purpose of the Role
To educate and upskill operational colleagues through training, coaching, and knowledge transfer initiatives.
Accountabilities
- Development of training programmes, workshops, and other initiatives to coach and support the knowledge transfer and skill development of the banking operational teams/colleagues.
- Monitoring the effectiveness of training programmes and making recommendations for improvement.
- Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in learning and development.
- Execution of training needs assessments and collaborating across the bank to identify gaps in knowledge and skills.
- Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness in relation to learning and development.
- Identifying risk and issues internally within the team and the ability to escalate appropriately.
- Maintain Barclays branding, ensuring all materials are reflective of the standards; adhering to Barclays governance, standards, and policies.
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
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OR 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 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.
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To educate and upskill operational colleagues through training, coaching, and knowledge transfer initiatives.
To be successful as a Learning and Development Team Manager, you should have:
- Strategic L&D leadership & stakeholder management – Ability to align learning strategy to business priorities and influence senior stakeholders across regions.
- End-to-end learning delivery – Strong capability in needs analysis, learning design, and delivery across multiple formats and geographies.
- Lending Experience or facility with lending businesses and products.
- Project & program management – Proven ability to manage multiple, complex learning initiatives with clear governance and delivery discipline.
- Data-driven evaluation & impact measurement – Experience measuring learning effectiveness and using insights to continuously improve programs.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Loan IQ knowledge
- Experience in operations within an investment bank.
- Lean Six Sigma / Continuous Improvement – Structured problem-solving mindset to improve learning processes and outcomes.
- Cross-cultural leadership – Experience leading and engaging global, diverse teams with cultural awareness and adaptability.
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 out of Manchester or London.
Our Work Experience
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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