VP Group Strategy

Job Description Summary

As a Vice President in Barclays’ Group Strategy team, you will develop and challenge Group and business unit strategies, delivering measurable impact on strategic projects that drive value across the Firm, in a unique role which provides direct exposure to senior management, while also mentoring junior talent. This role offers the opportunity to shape your career as a leader at Barclays, fostering an enterprise-wide mindset and influencing the Bank’s future direction.

You will lead high-impact projects that define Barclays’ long-term direction, working on topics such as growth strategy, portfolio optimisation, market entry, and capital allocation. This role provides an opportunity to influence decisions at the highest level and drive change across the enterprise.  

Accountabilities:

• Strategic Advisory: Partner with Group Executives to address complex business challenges and opportunities, providing independent, fact-based recommendations that inform key decisions.
• Enterprise-Wide Impact: Shape strategies that optimise performance across business units, balancing short-term priorities with long-term growth objectives.
• Problem Solving & Analysis: Structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, and apply advanced analytical techniques - including financial modelling and market analysis - to generate insights.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence: Monitor industry trends, benchmark peers, and synthesise external insights to anticipate shifts and identify opportunities.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across the bank, influencing outcomes through clear communication and compelling storytelling.
• Leadership & Development: Mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Vice President Expectations:

• Proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, or investment banking, with a track record of delivering impact at scale.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure complex issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong financial acumen and proficiency in building and interpreting financial models.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Why Join Us?

You will work on intellectually challenging projects that span geographies and business lines, in an environment that values analytical rigor, creativity, and collaboration.

You may be assessed on 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.

Purpose of the role

To provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices.

Accountabilities

• Provision of strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision-making process of business challenges and opportunities.
• Development and implementation of strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank’s operations, through market research and analysis.
• Collaboration with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction type to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Development of financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions through financial data analysis, financial projects and considering the financial impact of transactions.
• Management of transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post-transaction integration.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships, and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identification of industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking and developments related to strategic advisory services by attendings conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within 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.