Strategy & Execution Lead

Barclays UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Strategy & Execution Lead in Glasgow. This pivotal role focuses on developing comprehensive governance frameworks for data across global operations, requiring strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and a data-centric background. The successful candidate will be integral in ensuring compliance and improving data quality metrics.

Qualifications

• Experience in defining strategies and roadmaps.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience within analytics or transformation functions.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining data governance frameworks.
• Monitoring data quality and compliance across the organization.
• Identifying risks in data and records management.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Data background

Change and transformation

Job description

As the Strategy & Execution Lead within the Group Control Chief Data Analytics Office, you'll play a pivotal role in defining and driving the strategic direction for Data in Group Control. You'll work with businesses across Group Control to help shape strategies and plans enabling regulatory commitments and business-critical outcomes. You will help translate complex data and governance concepts into actionable roadmaps, support the creation and maintenance of a high-performance team, and integrate yourself into all the essential process functions.

To be successful as a Strategy & Execution Lead, you should have experience with:

• Defining strategies and roadmaps that are ambitious, achievable, and outcome-focused.

• Remarkable stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels across functions.

• The ability to work with abstract or conceptual topics and convert them into tangible, trackable deliverables.

• A data background, ideally within an analytics, transformation, or CDO function.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Awareness of machine learning concepts and their application in operational or risk models (e.g., data quality, bias, explainability).

• Working knowledge of Financial Crime risk or relevant Cybersecurity / Information Security domains.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 will be located at our Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement, and maintain effective governance frameworks for all data and records across the bank's global operations.

Accountabilities

• Development and maintenance of a comprehensive data and records governance framework aligned with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Monitoring data quality and records metrics and compliance with standards across the organization.
• Identification and addressing of data and records management risks and gaps.
• Development and implementation of a records management programme that ensures the proper identification, classification, storage, retention, retrieval, and disposal of records.
• Development and implementation of a data governance strategy that aligns with the bank's overall data management strategy and business objectives.
• Provision of group-wide guidance and training on data and records management standard requirements.

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, define roles and responsibilities, plan for future needs, and oversee operations, including employee performance and pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence department operations, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities, while balancing short and long-term goals within budgets and schedules.
• If in a leadership role, demonstrate behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver excellence, following the LEAD behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, act as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, coach team members, and advise on strategic decisions affecting long-term profits and risks.
• Advise senior stakeholders on impact and alignment across functions.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting control and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrate leadership in managing risks and controls related to team activities.
• Understand organizational functions to contribute effectively to business goals.
• Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Create solutions based on complex analytical thinking, research, and innovative problem-solving.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills.

All colleagues are expected to embody the Barclays Values—Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship—and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset—Empower, Challenge, Drive.