Barclays
OnePath Product Manager
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Job Description
Purpose of the Role
Product Managers are responsible for the leading the strategic focus of the product(s), defining the product vision, market strategy, and competitive analysis. They think about the product's future and how it will evolve over time. They work with various teams, including marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, to ensure everyone is aligned on the product strategy. They use data and market research to inform their decisions and prioritize product features.
Accountabilities
- Define Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals, ensuring that products meet market demands and drive growth.
- Cross Functional Alignment: Leadership of cross-functional relationships, working with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.
- Risk and Control: Accountable for overseeing product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the product management and control functions.
- Product Development Lifecycle: Own product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience – working with product owners to drive change objectives.
- Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with the company’s business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision, driving long-term business success.
- Data Driven Decisions: Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the strategies as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer.
- Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer-first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process.
- Business and Financial Acumen: Understanding pricing models, cost structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
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.
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If Managing a Team
- Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations.
- Counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
- 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.
Leadership Responsibilities
- 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
Individual Contributor
- Be a subject matter expert within the own discipline and guide technical direction.
- 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.
- Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
Additional Expectations
- 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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Join Us
Join us as a OnePath Senior Product Manager, where you’ll play a key role in shaping how OnePath evolves, is adopted across the business, and delivers measurable value. You’ll work closely with senior business, technology, risk, and compliance stakeholders to translate business needs into product priorities, improve the customer experience, and ensure the product is supported by effective governance, insight, and continuous improvement.
Essential Skills
To be successful as a Senior Product Manager, you should have the following essential skills:
- Strong Product Owner or Product Management experience, including requirements, prioritisation, and product roadmap development.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across business, technology, risk, and other functions.
- Experience driving product adoption, change, and continuous improvement, using customer feedback and business outcomes to shape priorities.
Highly Valued Skills
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Experience in customer experience, journey mapping, or service design, with a focus on simplifying user journeys.
- Knowledge of risk, controls, and governance, ideally within financial services or another regulated environment.
- Strong data analysis, benefits tracking, and reporting skills, using insight to measure adoption, performance, and value.
- Experience translating complex business, regulatory, or operational requirements into practical product solutions.
- Commercial awareness and experience supporting investment and prioritisation decisions.
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 either our London or Knutsford office.
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