Head of Business Management, Uk Corporate Banking and Barclaycard Payments Coverage

**Date live**:
18/06/2025
**Business Area**:
UK Business Management
**Area of Expertise**:
Relationship Management
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000059666
Join Relationship Management, to build and maintain relationships with customers, clients, stakeholders, and strategic partners. Your focus will be on driving business growth through effective relationship-building and delivering tailored solutions to meet client needs.
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**Job Title**: Head of Business Management, UK Corporate Banking and Barclaycard Payments Coverage
**Corporate Grade**: Managing Director
**Reports to**: Head of UK Corporate Banking and Barclaycard Payments Coverage
**Business Area**: Corporate Banking
**Primary Location**: London - 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf
Overall purpose of role
Partner with the business to deliver to a Consistently Excellent standard, including driving our strategy, operating with effective control, delivering “lights-on” activities and executing the change and regulatory agenda. Simply put, enabling our business to deliver for our clients, communities and each other.
**Support the Head of Coverage and their leadership team to**:
Maximise business performance through focusing on improved returns, sustainable growth, an excellent control environment, exceeding client satisfaction and having highly engaged colleagues.
Set and own the strategy for UK Corporate Banking and as a core component of the Corporate Banking Executive Forum optimise the business opportunities for collaboration across Group & Corporate Banking.
Lead and engage the UK Corporate Banking national teams across all segments to deliver the CB UK strategy. Drive inclusion and improvement of our talent bench-strength.
Role model the Barclays Values and Mindset.
Key Accountabilities
Lead and inspire the UKCB Coverage Business Management team, engaging with senior stakeholders from across UKCB and the group to achieve UKCB objectives. Ensure support for all “lights on“ activity including overall governance and support to the Head of the Business in achieving their objectives. Specifically:
Drive Business Performance, Efficiency and Strategy execution
Support the Head of the Business and key stakeholders in driving financial and cost performance.
Define, track and report on strategy execution
Deliver Chief of Staff support for Head of Coverage and leadership team
Co-ordinate engagement on Real Estate/Premises strategy, resource allocation, MTP and SI
Provide oversight on central administrative activity
Optimise impacts on coverage through robust change acceptance and communication
Coordinate the change agenda across key regulatory and strategic business programmes; whilst considering the capacity of client-facing colleagues
Support in developing the internal and external engagement strategy
Support the business response and communication in a crisis management scenario
Lead UKC response to incident/crisis management
Make the business a great place to work
Support “colleagues voice” delivery and delivery of “Your View” objectives
Support delivery and collaboration across UKC People plan area including recognition, well-being, citizenship etc.
Support the UKC Early Careers and Retirement Transition programmes
Protect the business and work closely with our Risk partners and 2 LOD
Protect our licence to trade alongside our control partners and 2nd line of defence
Plan and oversee management of risk and control related activity and lead UKC response to regulatory change
Review & embed policies and procedures and ensure controls align to our business

**Skills**:Decision-making and Problem Solving
**Future focused**:
Strategic mindset for decision making.
Understand the competition landscape and the future direction for Corporate Banking.
Proactive, commercial and execution focused in approach.
**Understanding of analysis**:
Highly numerate.
Uses the insights gained from data analytics to inform decisions and action.
**Commercial Skills**:
Understanding of the UK CB market.
Understanding risk and balancing the needs of clients with the ambitions of the Bank.
Finding ways to exceed client needs.
Person Specification
Essential
Consistently met and exceeded challenging targets.
Seasoned Business Manager or experience in supporting a front line business
Successful track record or executing change and having influence and impact at a senior level
Successful track record of building and developing talented & diverse teams and leaders.
Demonstrated ability of challenging the status quo and being curious about new ways of doing business.
Exceptional communication & presenting skills.
Build strong relationships and endear fellowship across Corporate Banking & Barclays.
Act with honesty, trust, integrity & empathy in all dealings and decisions.
Proven ability to flex leadership style as needed to get the best out of all individuals.
Purpose of the role
To maximise the growth and success of UK corporate banking. Working collaborativel