Product and Proposition Manager - Visa Virtual Cards

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. As a Product and Proposition Manager, you will own the lifecycle of finance admin delivery through embedded services products that shape the user experience for our business clients when using our digital channels. You will drive collaboration across our internal teams and with external partners to enable rapid scale and differentiated customer value. You will bring a commercial mindset, unlocking higher digital engagement, greater product holdings, and improved customer primacy through the delivery of regulatory‑ready solutions powered by real‑time Barclays transaction data.

We are particularly interested in external candidates with considerable traditional Product Management experience from Tech, SaaS or FinTech organisations, who can bring disciplined product discovery, roadmap ownership, data‑led prioritisation and proven experience scaling customer‑facing digital propositions.

To be successful as a Product and Proposition Manager, you should have experience with:

• Product ownership in Business Admin tools/journeys (Embedded Services) and where applicable, ownership of related customer and colleague journeys.
• Developing the product strategy, driving change through Barclays execution teams, making key decisions in the product lifecycle and owning associated outcomes for customers, colleagues and the bank, achieved through appropriate service level agreements, regulatory compliance, risk management and controls.

Accountabilities include:

• Development of customer level strategies, managing and maintaining policies/processes; delivering continuous improvements and escaping breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, defining jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Leading a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrating a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• For an individual contributor, being a subject matter expert within own discipline and guiding technical direction.
• Leading collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guiding team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• Training, guiding and coaching less experienced specialists and providing information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advising key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Managing and mitigating risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrating leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrating comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborating with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Creating solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopting and including the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seeking out, building and maintaining trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order 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.