Business Planning - Strategic

Business Planning Strategic

London or Northampton

As a Barclays Business Planning Strategic, you will be responsible for designing implementing and embedding strategic horizon scanning into the BUK Quarterly Integrated Planning cycle. In this role, you will report into the Director of Business Planning. This role will require someone with a combination of strategic, analytical, and stakeholder management skills. Success in this role demands strategic and financial skills coupled with exceptional data presentation skills.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

This role will be based from either London or Northampton. We will confirm your place of work at the point of offer, ensuring that this is considered in line with our future ways of working and overall location strategy. The hiring manager for the role will discuss the appropriate defined time in office for the role with you as part of the application process.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Scanning the external environment for trends and shocks that may create opportunities or risks for the plan, undertake scenario planning and recommend responses

• Working in collaboration with Group Strategy and stakeholder teams to ensure the clients UK plan is fully integrated and aligned

• Being responsible for developing a market and competitor insight and analysis capability to promote greater “outside in” thinking across the business

• Contributing to internal and external (regulatory) reporting activity in collaboration with Director of Business Planning

• Being responsible for summarising key trends and assessing relative performance of BUK against key competitors

• Identifying risks and opportunities to gain competitive advantage and driving business results

What we're looking for:

• Experience in Strategic Analysis, Business Planning & Competitive/Regulatory Insights

• Knowledge and understanding of Technology Trends (AI/data analytics, fintech and martech)

• Exceptional presentation skills and ability to distil complex data into compelling story

• Change or transformation management and programme management experience

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Business or scenario modelling (excel skills)

• Graduate calibre with significant commercial management experience across a number of business disciplines

• An understanding of the business strategy and ability to ensure projects are delivering to that strategy

• Ability to manipulate reports and evaluate data to put forward recommendations and suggest new way of working

Where will you be working?

London:

In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

Northampton:

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. This state-of-the art energy efficient building holds up to 2,500 staff. The office location is perfect for travel from the midlands and London alike as we are based just off the A45, it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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