Senior Analytics Manager - VP

Barclays; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Gurgaon invites a Senior Analytics Manager - VP to shape the data strategy for Barclays UK DNA. You will identify commercial opportunities, lead virtual teams, and deliver models and roadmaps to improve profitability, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

You will build analytics capabilities, influence senior stakeholders, and ensure regulatory compliance while guiding a 10+ person team across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience solving high‑impact problems with cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to translate data insights into strategic decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Identify and extract relevant data to support business decisions.
• Lead cross‑functional teams and drive revenue and efficiency improvements.
• Develop analytical capabilities, roadmaps, and business cases.
• Advise executives and manage risk and regulatory considerations.
• Communicate complex ideas with clear executive narratives.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Commercial Awareness

Problem Structuring

Technical Know‑how

Data‑Driven Decision Making

Communication & Influence

Stakeholder Management

People Leadership

Project Leadership

Role Model

Tools

Python

SQL

Excel

Tableau

Job description

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Analytics Manager - VP, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Barclays UK (BUK) Data & Analytics (DNA) team. Your role involves identifying and evaluating commercial opportunities and risks, prioritizing work across the BUK, and leading virtual teams to investigate these issues. Your key responsibilities are expected to drive strategic outcomes that improve profitability, customer experience, or operational efficiency. Your key role is to solve high‑impact problems often involving cross‑functional change. Typical deliverables include building analytical and data science capabilities that drive strategic roadmaps, business‑case development, and target operating model design. Provide strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision‑making process of business challenges and opportunities. You will also manage stakeholder relationships, communicate complex ideas effectively, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

To be successful as a Senior Analytics Manager - VP, you should have experience with:

Skills/Competencies required:

• Strategic Thinking: Bring internal business knowledge, external environment, research and analytics together to drive strategic outcomes.
• Commercial Awareness: Deep understanding of value drivers across products and services and ability to link customer, operational, and financial levers to drive revenue growth, customer experience and operational efficiency.
• Problem Structuring: Break down complex problems into simple steps and use techniques like MECE framework, hypothesis‑based, 5 WHYs, 80/20, decision trees, etc.
• Technical Know‑how: Use Python, SQL, Excel, Tableau to transform and interpret data.
• Data‑Driven Decision Making: Use analytics to generate insights that drive business outcomes.
• Communication & Influence: Craft compelling, data‑backed strategic narratives for senior stakeholders. Strong PowerPoint and executive presentation skills.
• Stakeholder Management: Align across Business, Tech, Risk, Compliance and other departments. Coordinate cross‑functional teams and track benefits realization.
• People Leadership: Support and develop (head count 10+) team members throughout their development journey, enhancing their capabilities and mindset.
• Project Leadership: Define project scopes, deliver through others, plan appropriately, manage stakeholders, and navigate the organization to achieve goals.
• Role Model: Exemplify organizational values and standards, contribute to various initiatives, manage performance, and influence others to deliver outstanding results.

Behavior/Mindset required:

• Problem Solving: Handle high ambiguity, simplify complexity, navigate issues and bring clarity.
• Curiosity: Stay updated on market trends, competitive shifts and innovation. Constantly ask “Why?”, “What if?”, “So what?”.
• Outcome Oriented: Focus on impact, not activity. Align work with measurable outcomes, not just deliverables.
• Challenger Mentality: Challenge the status quo without being combative. Push stakeholders and team thinking with data‑driven insights.
• Collaborative: Lead without authority, coordinate across people and teams, build trust.
• Ownership & Accountability: Treat the business as your own. Take end‑to‑end ownership of the business problem until implementation. Ensure recommendations are adopted and deliver value.
• Resilience & Adaptability: Iterate fast, fail fast, pivot based on feedback. Stay composed in challenging client environments.

Some Of Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Expertise and practical experience of creating customer segmentation models.
• Practical knowledge of data warehouse and MI environments and practices.
• Project management and cross‑functional matrix leadership experience.
• Experience in Global bank captives data science consulting units.

The location for this role is Gurgaon, IN.

Purpose of the role

To extract meaningful insights from complex data sets, develop robust decision models, and present actionable recommendations to stakeholders across the departments.

Accountabilities

• Identification and extraction of relevant data from various internal and external sources.
• Performing sensitivity analysis and scenario planning.
• Monitoring and evaluation of the performance of existing models.
• Development and implementation of data quality control procedures.
• Building and validation of quantitative models to support decision‑making across different business areas.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 address policy breaches.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. May also lead specialists to influence departmental operations, balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• People Leaders are expected to demonstrate clear leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, serve as a subject‑matter expert in their discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi‑year assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation, train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists; provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting 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 functions to contribute to achieving the business goals.
• Collaborate with other work areas to keep up to speed with business activity and business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include 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.

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.