Director FIG Cash Sales

8193 Barclays Bank PLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Bank PLC is seeking a Director in Global Transaction Banking (GTB) FIG Sales to originate and expand Payments & Liquidity with clients across Funds, Sponsors, Asset Management Companies, Broker Dealers and Financial Markets Infrastructure. You will drive revenue growth through new client acquisition and wallet-share expansion.

In collaboration with GTB Product, Coverage and Service teams, you will design end-to-end treasury solutions, lead a small team, and maintain an active portfolio

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services sales and client management.
• Understanding of banking products and regulatory requirements.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage potential clients across FIG sectors; analyze needs and market trends.
• Develop detailed target profiles to tailor sales strategies and product recommendations.
• Lead high‑level negotiations to close deals and drive revenue growth.
• Manage and develop a small sales team while maintaining a personal client portfolio.
• Monitor key sales metrics and provide insights to improve performance.

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To generate revenue and promote the bank's diverse product and service offerings to various customer segments.

Accountabilities

Identification of potential customers, analysing their needs and preferences, and staying abreast of emerging market trends and competitor strategies.

Creation of detailed profiles for target customer segments, outlining their demographics, financial habits, and pain points to tailor sales approaches and product recommendations.

Relationship management of potential and existing customer relations through the execution of high-quality customer support, by responding to queries and resolving issues, gaining their customer trust, and understanding their financial goals and challenges.

Understanding of the features, benefits, risks, and compliance requirements of various banking products and services offered.

Understanding of the key features, benefits, risks, enhancements, and regulatory requirements of new and existing banking products, and communicate insights clearly to potential customers to address their financial needs.

Development of compelling sales pitches and proposals that showcase the value proposition of the bank's offerings to convert leads into customers, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.

Collection and analysis of customer feedback on various products, services, and overall experience, to support the development of reports that communicate key findings to relevant stakeholders, to inform product development and sales strategies.

Monitoring of lead conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, and other relevant metrics to assess sales performance and identify areas for improvement.

Director Expectations

To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.

Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..

They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.

Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally.

They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.

Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.

Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.

Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.

Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.

Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.

Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.

Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.

Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.

Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.

Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.

Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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. 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.

As a Director within FIG Sales in Global Transaction Banking (GTB), you will be responsible for overseeing, originating, and expanding Payments & Liquidity businesses from specific FIG sectors such as Funds, Sponsors, Asset Management Companies, Broker Dealers and Financial Markets Infrastructure clients. This is a senior, client‑facing role focused on advisory‑led business development, with accountability for driving sustainable revenue growth through new client acquisition, wallet‑share expansion and long‑term client franchise development. The role requires close partnership with Corporate & Investment Banking Coverage, GTB Product, Implementation and Service teams to design and deliver integrated, end‑to‑end treasury solutions that meet complex client operating and risk requirements. The role will also support the Head of FIG Sales in strategic initiatives targeted around the FIG client segments. The Director will own the full sales lifecycle, from opportunity identification and qualification through solution structuring, pricing, approvals, negotiation and execution, operating within established governance, risk and control frameworks. In addition, the role includes leading and developing a small team of sales professionals, while maintaining responsibility for an active personal client portfolio and contributing to broader GTB FIG strategic initiatives.

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is 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.