Product Manager - Wholesale Lending

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us as a Product Manager within Wholesale Lending, where you’ll take ownership of your products end-to-end, from creating and launching new solutions, improving efficiency, to evolving existing products to meet changing business and customer needs. No two days are alike, you’ll manage governance, lead stakeholder forums, navigate compliance and legal requirements, understand bank and market risks, and ensure products stay commercially relevant. You’ll keep a close eye on market trends, competitor activity, and innovations like AI, while presenting, influencing, and collaborating across teams. This role is all about being curious, proactive, and truly owning your product, shaping its strategy, impact, and success across the business.

Qualifications

• Data-driven thinker, skilled at interpreting complex information to inform strategic decisions and drive measurable outcomes.
• Enthusiastic team player who collaborates effectively and builds trusted relationships across all levels of the organisation, fostering a culture of cooperation.
• Confident presenting to senior stakeholders, articulating ideas clearly, and influencing decisions with credibility and impact.
• Creative and resourceful, able to prioritise effectively, take initiative, and challenge processes constructively to deliver better outcomes.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Previous experience with debt products.

Purpose of the role

To develop and manage the wholesale lending products and services, collaborating with, and ensuring service standards are complied with by, business partners across the bank, including investment bankers, credit analysts, risk managers, and operations professionals, to ensure that our products meet the needs of the bank's clients and are aligned with the bank's overall strategic objectives whilst ensuring all governance, control, regulatory and legal requirements are met.

Accountabilities

• Development and execution of product strategy for financial products and services offered within the wholesale division.
• Identification of investment opportunities and customer needs to create new products or enhance existing ones.
• Management of the entire product lifecycle, including product planning, development, launch, and ongoing management, including oversight of service levels.
• Analysis of market data to make informed decisions regarding product positioning and pricing.
• Assessment and management of risks associated with lending products and implement risk mitigation strategies, including the operation of and attendance to governance forums.
• Oversight of regulatory and technological change.

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 specialisation 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 developing 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 that is closely related 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 practises (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.