Embark on a transformative journey as an AVP Deal Support Team at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

Overall purpose of role

• Provide deal and pitchbook development support to UKCB front office (sales) teams
• Coordinate all activities of the Deal Support Team to ensure the quality and timeliness of output, i.e. pitch books that offer value-add customer and market insights are presented in a clear and professional format
• Manage performance of the individual members of the Deal Support Team and maintain high motivation and commitment levels
• Enhance the conversion of sales pitches into actual deals and customer acquisition, i.e. drive wallet share and new business activity
• Drive transparent reporting, with periodic reports to Team Lead/Business Head summarizing team activities and statistics on driving business success
• Identify and share best practices within the team
• Drive and lead projects in partnership with stakeholders, ensuring the project management and stakeholder management without any misses
• Drive and implement process improvement ideas to increase efficiency, and/or reduce costs

Key Accountabilities

• Manage and enhance the workflow and Quality Check process
• Drive project delivery, working and coordinating with all the stakeholders
• Deliver insightful analysis and assist in the development of client leave behinds
• Conduct overall financial and market/industry research to contribute business logic to deliverables
• Ensure the highest quality and accuracy standards are achieved in all market and industry research and that it matches the requirements
• Share knowledge and best practice standards in an effort to continuously improve content delivery
• Lead projects successfully, and ensure delivery with no misses
• Ensure that the highest quality and accuracy standards are achieved in all the deliverables and that it matches the stakeholder’s expectations
• Compile accurate and thorough reports measuring overall team output and impact on deal success
• Liaise with stakeholders to obtain feedback on support levels and quality of output and build improvements into the research
• Make decisions once all the available information is processed and speak with the right points of contact involved in the situation.
• Ability to quickly identify issues, define obstacles, examine options, and act on an agreed course of action and monitor the how it turns out, and whether any changes need to be made.
• Use analytical thinking, initiative, creative mind-set to generate solutions.
• Anticipate potential future problems and act to prevent them or mitigate their effects.
• Make decisions that help establish a strong bond with all employees that strengthens the company's culture.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Must have relevant experience in a financial services institution (corporate or investment banking) or consulting or knowledge services sector
• Market research expertise, Knowledge and understanding of market, industry and impact of macro-economic indicators
• Aptitude to work in a variable business environment, periodically requiring tight deadlines and aggressive turn-around times

You may be assessed on 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.

This job position will be based out of Noida/ Gurugram.

Purpose of the role

To support coverage to grow income for both new and existing customers by providing marketing leading tools, a world class learning & development programme as well as analytical support in terms of sales management tools to contribute to the overall success of UKC.

Accountabilities

• Design, execution and embedding of an ongoing roadmap to provides market leading Tools for RDs and Coverage.
• Design, execution and embedding of an ongoing training plan to provide ‘World Class Learning’.
• Support the delivery of market leading client collateral to provide a competitive advantage to RDs. .
• Collaboration with Product to develop market leading industry/segment focused products and multi product solutions and Develop and drive initiatives.
• Development of the data capability across UK Corporate to enable delivery of client insights to drive acquisitions and increase wallet share.
• Maximise the positive impact of UCRM and Salesforce as a tool for Corporate Banking.
• Implementation of agreed minimum standards and best practices across UK Corporate and support this with sales management tools to drive overall success.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.