Overview
Join us as a Senior Product Manager within Wholesale Lending, where you’ll take ownership of your products end-to-end, from creating and launching new solutions, improving efficiency, to evolving existing products to meet changing business and customer needs. No two days are alike, you’ll manage governance, lead stakeholder forums, navigate compliance and legal requirements, understand bank and market risks, and ensure products stay commercially relevant. You’ll keep a close eye on market trends, competitor activity, and innovations like AI, while presenting, influencing, and collaborating across teams. This role is all about being curious, proactive, and truly owning your product, shaping its strategy, impact, and success across the business.
Qualifications
* A data-driven thinker, skilled at interpreting complex information to inform strategic decisions and drive measurable outcomes.
* An enthusiastic team player who collaborates effectively and builds trusted relationships across all levels of the organisation, fostering a culture of cooperation.
* Confident presenting to senior stakeholders, articulating ideas clearly, and influencing decisions with credibility and impact.
* Creative and resourceful, able to prioritise effectively, take initiative, and challenge processes constructively to deliver better outcomes.
Desired Skills
* Previous experience with debt products.
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 is based in London.
Purpose of the Role
To develop and manage the wholesale lending products and services, collaborating with, and ensuring service standards are complied with by, business partners across the bank, including investment bankers, credit analysts, risk managers, and operations professionals, to ensure that our products meet the needs of the bank's clients and are aligned with the bank's overall strategic objectives whilst ensuring all governance, control, regulatory and legal requirements are met.
Accountabilities
* Development and execution of product strategy for financial products and services offered within the wholesale division.
* Identification of investment opportunities and customer needs to create new products or enhance existing ones.
* Management of the entire product lifecycle, including product planning, development, launch, and ongoing management, including oversight of service levels.
* Analysis of market data to make informed decisions regarding product positioning and pricing.
* Assessment and management of risks associated with lending products and implementation of risk mitigation strategies, including the operation of and attendance to governance forums.
* Oversight of regulatory and technological change.
Vice President Expectations
* 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence the department’s operations, balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
* Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
* For an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within own discipline, guide technical direction, lead multi‑year assignments, 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, supporting the control and governance agenda.
* Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in the work your team does.
* Show comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the business goals.
* Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
* Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking defines problems and develops innovative solutions.
* Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
* Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, 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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