Pricing Manager - AVP

Join us at Barclays as a Pricing Manager. In this role, you’ll manage the bank’s wholesale lending portfolio by developing and implementing portfolio strategies, monitoring and assessing risk, and reporting on performance. You’ll work closely with relationship managers, credit analysts, and colleagues across various sectors to ensure alignment with the bank’s risk appetite and business objectives, while taking ownership of pricing activities and collaborating across sectors and product sets to deliver value.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues across multiple teams

• 1–2 years of experience with UK Corporate and International Corporate Banking frameworks

• Proactive mindset with strong ownership and accountability

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Lending knowledge and understanding of wholesale lending products

• Risk and control knowledge, including familiarity with risk metrics

• Portfolio management experience

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.

This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role

To manage asset and reporting for the bank's wholesale lending portfolio, including developing and implementing portfolio management strategies, monitoring, and assessing portfolio risk, and reporting on portfolio performance and collaborating with relationship managers, credit analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure that the portfolio is aligned with the bank's risk appetite and business objectives.  

Accountabilities

• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of credit risks associated with the portfolio, including conducting regular portfolio reviews and sensitivity analysis.  .
• Monitoring of performance of the loan portfolio.  .
• Analysing the business cases for lending proposals based on the creditworthiness of borrowers and counterparties, in line with the bank’s strategy.  .
• Implementation of strategies to optimise the portfolio's risk-return profile, including active management of credit exposures, portfolio rebalancing, and credit limit.  .

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.