Recruiter - BPL

Barclays; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a strategic Recruiter to own end-to-end recruitment across corporate grades from intake to onboarding, working closely with senior stakeholders to ensure a smooth hiring process. The role emphasizes continuous improvement, fast-paced delivery, and a focus on Agile/technical recruitment to attract top talent.

Based in London, you will drive talent pipelines, engage with directors and MDs, and balance speed with quality to keep Barclays competitive in recruiting key

Qualifications

• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders up to Director/MD level with clear communication.
• Demonstrated capability to build and manage talent pipelines.
• Experience driving process improvements and challenging existing ways of working.
• Experience in technical and/or Agile recruitment environments, with preference for those who supported hiring in these areas.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement recruitment strategies aligned with Barclays' business goals.
• Forecast workforce needs and plan talent acquisition accordingly.
• Create engaging job content and onboarding material to attract and retain top talent.
• Oversee onboarding processes and ensure a smooth transition for new hires.
• Monitor recruitment metrics and optimize processes for efficiency and candidate experience.
• Build and manage relationships with senior stakeholders, sourcing firms, and professional bodies to strengthen the talent pipeline.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment

Stakeholder engagement

Talent pipelines

Process improvement

Technical/Agile recruitment

Job description

In this role, you will act as a trusted Recruiter, supporting hiring across all corporate grades within a dynamic and evolving organisation. You will take ownership of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from intake and briefing through to offer and onboarding, while building talent pipelines. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, providing regular updates, managing expectations, and ensuring a smooth and efficient hiring process. Your ability to engage, influence, and communicate effectively at all levels will be critical to success.

You will also play a key role in driving continuous improvement across recruitment and onboarding processes, challenging existing ways of working and identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and candidate experience. In a fast-paced environment, you will balance speed with quality, ensuring the organisation remains competitive in attracting top talent. You will support hiring across all functions, with a preference for candidates who bring experience in Agile and/or technical recruitment.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

For more information on our partnership with Brookfield (programme ‘Gaia’), please visit Barclays.com.

To be successful as a Recruiter, you should have experience with:

• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders (up to and including Director / MD level) with clear, consistent communication.
• Demonstrated capability to build and manage talent pipelines.
• Experience in driving process improvements, with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.
• Experience in technical and/or Agile recruitment environments, with a preference for candidates who have supported hiring in these areas.

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.

Your role will be located from our London office.

Purpose of the role

To source, attract, recruit, and develop talented individuals in support of talent retention across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of recruitment and development strategies and programmes that align with the bank’s business goals, including talent attraction and development.
• Workforce planning, forecasting and talent needs assessment to anticipate hiring and training needs.
• Development of compelling job content and training material to engage and retain top talent.
• Onboarding processes for new hires, including orientation sessions administration, to facilitate a smooth transition into the organisation.
• Monitoring and reporting of key recruitment and development metrics, including the identification of areas for improvement and optimisation.
• Stakeholder management of business leaders, talent sourcing and development firms, and professional organisations to develop a strong talent pipeline.

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 elevate 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.