Strategy & Execution Lead

Barclays; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank seeks a Strategy & Execution Lead to define and drive the strategic direction for Data in Group Control. This role involves developing governance frameworks for data management, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and managing stakeholder relationships while fostering a high-performance team.

Qualifications

• Experience in defining strategies and roadmaps.
• Background in data analytics or transformation.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive data governance frameworks.
• Monitor data quality and compliance metrics.
• Identify and manage data management risks.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Data Governance

Analytical Thinking

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 essential processes and 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, 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 jobs and responsibilities, plan for future needs, and guide performance and development. Lead specialists to influence operations, ensuring alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, while balancing short and long-term goals within budgets and schedules.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment where colleagues can thrive and deliver excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviors are: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, serve as a subject matter expert, guiding technical direction, leading multi-year assignments, coaching less experienced team members, and influencing strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including leadership teams, on functional and cross-functional impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessments, supporting the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability in managing risks and strengthening controls.
• Understand organizational functions deeply to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate with support areas to stay aligned with business activities and strategies.
• Create solutions based on analytical thinking, comparing complex alternatives, and incorporating research outcomes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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