Execution Office Strategy, Planning and Execution Officer

Join our team as an Execution Office Strategy, Planning and Execution Officer at Barclays. In this role you will provide independent, balanced advice and guidance to senior stakeholders, supporting problem identification, solution development, and effective decision making. You will also be responsible for producing high quality Board and ELT materials.

Location: London.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice to Group Executives to support decision making for business challenges and opportunities.
• Develop and implement strategic advisory initiatives to grow and optimise the bank's operations through market research and analysis.
• Collaborate with various stakeholder groups to identify appropriate strategic direction to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Develop financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions, performing financial data analysis and considering the impact of transactions.
• Manage transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post transaction integration.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identify industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking, and stay current on developments related to strategic advisory services by attending conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

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 raise breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for departmental future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to pay decisions/changes, and lead specialists to influence operations.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic; Energise and inspire; Align across the enterprise; Develop others.
• As an individual contributor, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi year assignments, train and coach less experienced specialists, and influence long term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership and senior management, on areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment to support the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in your work.
• Have comprehensive understanding of organisation functions to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep pace with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives; perform in depth analysis with interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Professional Skills

• Proven ability to develop Board/ELT level materials: structure, clarity, conciseness, accuracy.
• Ensuring consistency and traceability across reporting for multiple initiatives, maintaining aligned messaging, audit trails, and version control.
• Collaborating with senior stakeholders across functions (risk, finance, operations, technology, business teams).
• Ability to work effectively in fast paced, time sensitive environments, balancing competing priorities with high quality outputs.
• Track record of strengthening governance practices, ensuring consistency, timeliness, and quality across multiple workstreams.
• Advanced experience in executive reporting, portfolio management, and/or strategy consulting within complex transformation environments.

Additional Expectations

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.