Senior Commercial Strategy Manager

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us as a Senior Commercial Strategy Manager, based in London, where you will play a key role in shaping commercial strategy across UK Corporate Banking, Global Transaction Banking and International Corporate Banking. You will act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, helping define strategic direction, prioritisation and outcomes across key commercial areas. You will work closely with stakeholders across Product, Payments, Coverage, Finance, Data and Technology, leading complex cross‑functional work and ensuring strategy translates into clear, practical outcomes. You will use market, client and commercial insight to guide decision‑making and support delivery against business priorities. Working in a collaborative environment, you will lead end‑to‑end problem solving, develop clear recommendations and support senior decision‑making. Alongside this, you will maintain a focus on risk and control, ensuring decisions consider trade‑offs and align to regulatory expectations.

To Be Successful In This Role You Will Have:

• Significant experience in commercial strategy, consulting, product strategy or similar roles within financial services or a regulated environment
• Ability to define and reframe complex business problems and guide direction
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and shaping decisions without direct authority
• Ability to balance detailed analysis with practical outcomes and timely delivery
• Clear communication skills, with experience presenting to senior audiences
• Experience leading complex cross‑functional work and coordinating senior stakeholders
• Understanding of commercial drivers, client needs and market dynamics within corporate or transaction banking
• High attention to detail and a focus on quality outputs

Desirable Skills Include:

• Experience shaping growth strategy, propositions or investment priorities
• Knowledge of corporate or transaction banking products and client segments
• Familiarity with market analysis and commercial evaluation techniques
• Advanced PowerPoint skills with the ability to present complex ideas clearly
• Experience supporting or developing others within a team environment

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this role, including stakeholder engagement, business awareness, communication, strategic thinking, change delivery and technical expertise. This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role: To provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices.

Accountabilities:

• Provision of 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 type 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.

Vice President Expectations:

• To 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• They may also lead 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, 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and 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 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 functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• 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 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.