Strategy Manager - BPL

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Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic reporting and planning cycle for Barclays and Brookfield stakeholders, including annual submissions, executive updates and ad‑hoc board materials.
• Own the framing of strategic questions and assess options across the business, developing clear recommendations grounded in commercial logic, evidence, risks, trade‑offs and mitigations.
• Drive priority strategic initiatives end‑to‑end, working independently and through cross‑functional teams to turn direction into delivered outcomes.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders, shaping decisions, challenging assumptions and helping functions translate strategy into sequenced, costed action plans with clear owners and metrics.
• Lead problem‑solving on complex, ambiguous topics such as AI‑led business design, operating model choices and enterprise‑wide planning priorities.
• Develop market, competitor and internal performance insights, and synthesize into implications for positioning, investment choices and executive decision‑making.
• Identify emerging risks and opportunities across the strategy agenda and elevate recommendations with pace and judgment.
• Coach junior colleagues and help raise the quality, pace and consistency of strategy team output.

Experience Required

• Experience interpreting enterprise‑wide strategic objectives and translating them into actionable plans for specific business units and functions, within a FinTech or Payment Acquirer.
• Developing detailed implementation roadmaps, including key initiatives, timelines, resource allocation, and performance metrics.
• Implementing robust commercial models for new initiatives and ventures, with a focus on financial viability and profitability.

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.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub‑function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub‑function.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed, that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.

All Senior 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. 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.