Vice President Group Strategy

Barclays Bank Plc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking an experienced Vice President to join their Group Strategy team. This role involves strategic advisory, driving high-impact projects, and mentoring junior talent. Candidates should have a proven track record in corporate strategy or consulting, exceptional problem-solving skills, and strong financial acumen. The role provides significant exposure to senior management and the opportunity to influence the bank's strategic direction.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Track record of delivering impact at scale.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Group Executives to address complex business challenges.
• Shape strategies that optimise performance across business units.
• Mentor junior team members and foster a culture of excellence.

Skills

Proven corporate strategy experience

Exceptional problem-solving skills

Strong financial acumen

Effective communication

Collaborative mindset

Leadership behavior

Job description

Overview

As a Vice President in Barclays' Group Strategy team, you will develop and challenge Group and business unit strategies, delivering measurable impact on strategic projects that drive value across the Firm, in a role with direct exposure to senior management and mentoring of junior talent. This role offers the opportunity to shape your career as a leader at Barclays, fostering an enterprise-wide mindset and influencing the Bank's future direction. You will lead high-impact projects that define Barclays' long-term direction, working on topics such as growth strategy, portfolio optimisation, market entry, and capital allocation. This role provides an opportunity to influence decisions at the highest level and drive change across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisory: Partner with Group Executives to address complex business challenges and opportunities, providing independent, fact-based recommendations that inform key decisions.
• Enterprise-Wide Impact: Shape strategies that optimise performance across business units, balancing short-term priorities with long-term growth objectives.
• Problem Solving & Analysis: Structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, and apply advanced analytical techniques - including financial modelling and market analysis - to generate insights.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence: Monitor industry trends, benchmark peers, and synthesise external insights to anticipate shifts and identify opportunities.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across the bank, influencing outcomes through clear communication and compelling storytelling.
• Leadership & Development: Mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices. Provide strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision-making process of business challenges and opportunities.
• Development and implementation of strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank's operations, through market research and analysis.
• Collaboration with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Development of financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions through financial data analysis, financial projects and considering the financial impact of transactions.
• Management of transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post-transaction integration.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships, and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identification of industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking and developments related to strategic advisory services by attending conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

Expectations & Qualifications

• Proven experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, or investment banking, with a track record of delivering impact at scale.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure complex issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Strong financial acumen and proficiency in building and interpreting financial models.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (LEAD: Listen, Energise, Align, Develop others).
• If an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction; lead multi-year assignments and guide team members; train and coach less experienced specialists; influence 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's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• 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 to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Why Join Us?

You will work on intellectually challenging projects that span geographies and business lines, in an environment that values analytical rigor, creativity, and collaboration. You may be assessed on 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.

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.