Technical Customer Care Leader

Barclays UK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in the UK is seeking a Technical Customer Care Leader to drive operational excellence within its Fraud department. The ideal candidate will lead a team, enhance customer outcomes, and strengthen stakeholder partnerships. Key responsibilities include managing performance, understanding market trends, and creating an empowering work environment. This role requires proven leadership experience and the ability to engage across all business levels. Competitive compensation and a focus on employee development are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in high-pressure environments.
• Strong understanding of service delivery and workflow management.
• Ability to engage and influence at all business levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team to achieve excellent customer outcomes.
• Manage performance standards and support personal growth.
• Make evaluative judgments to support customer financial needs.

Skills

Proven Leadership Experience

Operational Oversight

Stakeholder Engagement

Self-Motivation and Independence

Multitasking and Prioritisation

Contact Centre and Fraud Experience

Job description

Join Barclays as a Technical Customer Care Leader, where you'll lead a team within our Fraud department. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact by driving operational excellence, enhancing customer outcomes, and strengthening our partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. You'll play a key role in shaping the future of customer care in a high‑profile area of the business.

To be successful as a Technical Customer Care Leader, you should have experience with:

• Proven Leadership Experience: Ability to lead effectively in high‑pressure environments, managing teams and driving performance.
• Operational Oversight: Strong understanding of service delivery, workflow management, and operational controls.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Confident communicator with the ability to engage and influence across all levels of the business.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Self‑Motivation and Independence: Able to take initiative and work autonomously in a fast‑paced environment.
• Multitasking and Prioritisation: Capable of managing multiple responsibilities efficiently while maintaining high standards.
• Contact Centre and Fraud Experience: Familiarity with Fraud contact centre operations, including performance management, team leadership and coaching.

You may be assessed on the 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.

Purpose of the role

To lead and develop a highly engaged team, pioneering an omni‑channel experience to achieve consistently excellent customer outcomes. Build and maintain your team’s capability to deliver excellent customer outcomes through identifying, understanding, and meeting customer needs both internally and externally, using available tools and enablers to grow business performance.

Accountabilities

• Customer service to create excellent customer satisfaction and positively influence NPS (Net Promoter Scores), act as an ambassador for Barclays externally and internally, creating connections and growth for customers.
• Identification and maintenance of active performance management standards across the team, communicating to and inspiring colleagues to be commercially minded, achieve goals and expectations, measure them frequently and honestly to ensure personal growth and support early identification and intervention where required.
• Day to day running of the business, using internal and external insights to develop an effective business plan, making evaluative judgments to support customers with their financial needs and drive long‑term sustainable revenue growth in your area.
• Market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.
• Cultivation of a resolution culture where leaders and colleagues are customer advocates and are empowered to deal with customer requests fairly at first point of contact.
• Creation of an empowering environment, bringing together and supporting a community of colleagues who care about Customers, Colleagues and Outcomes.
• Operational performance of allocated sites and surrounding touchpoints. Ensuring operational and risk frameworks are adhered to for all direct reports, including observations.
• Creation of a culture which enables focus on building deeper relationships with customers and contributes to the overall success of Barclays.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work doświadc close to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business‑aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.). To solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. Complex information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.