Ecosystems & Partnerships

**Join us as a Ecosystems & Partnerships**to cultivate and maintain relationships and networks with key players in the wider innovation ecosystem, including fintech, venture capital investors, industry experts academia and key partners. You will be comfortable interfacing with senior executives and business unit leaders to drive alignment on strategic initiatives. You will have clear storytelling, be able to create compelling presentations, and be able negotiate buy-in.

To be successful as a Ecosystems & Partnerships, you should have experience in;

**Essential Skills**
- Strategic Relationship Building - Ability to identify, establish and nurture strategic partnerships to deliver on our Innovation strategy. Evaluate and assess potential partnerships and commercial opportunities, considering an array of factors including technology, business model, market potential and Barclays strategic objectives.
- Collaborative Stakeholder management - Proven ability to collaborate and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior stakeholders. Ensures alignment, effective communication and successful partnership execution. Ability to effectively communicate, influence and collaborate..

Some other highly valued skills may include

**Desirable Skills**
- Adaptability and Continuous Learning: Ability to adapt quickly to change and continuously learn. Successfully operate in a fast-changing environment including shifts in market conditions, technological innovation and fintech disruption. Flexible and capable of pivoting strategies when circumstances change.
- Regulatory Acumen and Risk Awareness: Keen awareness of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management practices. Capability to understand and navigate regulatory constraints and using these as design parameters for innovation.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills (e.g. proficient on excel reporting, data management, etc.)

**Location is Glasgow**

**Purpose of the role**

To collaborate, nurture and drive group innovation with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the bank stays at the forefront of innovation and adapts to the rapidly changing landscape in financial services and increasing customer expectations.

**Accountabilities**
- Collaboration with a range of stakeholders to develop a portfolio of open innovation and strategic initiatives through experimentation, co-creation, access to innovative technology capabilities, products and services and a global innovation ecosystem.
- Development and delivery of frameworks, ideation, training and tools to build a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing to enable new and creative ideas/solutions that deliver on the bank’s strategy.
- Provision of a global platform and curated ecosystem of partners to inform strategy, drive connectivity and new insights.
- Development of the strategic capabilities and programmes for the bank to deliver on its strategy, supporting the exploration, evaluation and execution of innovation and investment opportunities.
- Management and coordination between external stakeholders/partners and the bank, to successfully deliver joint projects and initiatives.
- Deliver thought leadership and insights to inform strategic decision making and organisational readiness, in conjunction with regular research, identifying emerging technologies and trends..
- Development and management of key metrics including key partnerships, innovation initiatives and impact through regular assessments to calculate the return on investment and identify any potential risks and issues.

**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 escalate 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..
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior