Senior Product Strategy Manager

Barclays; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the UK is seeking a Senior Product Strategy Manager for its Card Payments Division. The role entails shaping product strategies, analyzing market trends, and developing forecasts for key products. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in product strategy within financial services, particularly in payments or lending. The position offers a hybrid working model and a range of benefits.

Benefits

Pension plan

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts at various retailers

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product strategy development and delivery in financial services.
• Experience with payments or lending products is preferred.
• Good experience working with SME customers is essential.

Responsibilities

• Analyze market dynamics and competitor engagement.
• Develop forecasts and strategies for product growth.
• Create effective adoption strategies for products.

Skills

Product strategy development

Payments/Lending Products

SME customer interaction

Large organization experience

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Senior Product Strategy Manager

Location: Northampton/London (hybrid, 3 days from home)

Length: 6 - 12 months

PAYE only

We are looking for a Senior Product Strategy Manager to join Barclays Card Payments Division and make a significant impact on key products within our portfolio. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the future of our payments and lending products. You will dive deep into market trends, analyze competitor activity, and leverage internal expertise to develop robust strategies that drive adoption and market share growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence product direction and contribute to our ambitious growth plans.

Key Accountabilities

• Get to grips with market dynamics, identifying high-potential growth sectors and analyzing competitor engagement on similar products. Conduct thorough research to inform your insights.

• Analyze gathered information to build out comprehensive insights and strategies.

• Develop forecasts for both market trends and our own market share, modeling potential adjustments to pricing and subscription models.

• Create and implement effective adoption strategies for our products.

• Develop and execute strategies for the growth of two key products: Drive growth for our payments acquiring products. Help grow this account-to-account payments product from its current customer base.

• Develop a 1-5 year growth strategy for our cash advance product.

• Work closely with partners and customers to build strategies for increasing customer adoption over the next 1-5 years, focusing on both quick wins and medium-to-long-term initiatives.

Key Skills

• Extensive experience of product strategy development and delivery

• Experience in Payments/Lending Products within Financial Services, with a preference for payments experience

• Good experience working with Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) customers.

• Experience within a large organisation within the Financial Sector is preferred

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays vision and goals.

Hybrid Working

Barclays is currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Barclays is flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. Barclays also has a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances.

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there are discounts at heaps of high street shops, restaurants and entertainment - from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants.