CAREERS & JOBS (LOYALTY & CX)

Barclays is hiring: Client Experience Director

Overall purpose of role

The Client Experience Director will be responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the PBWM Client Experience strategy in partnership with senior stakeholders across the organization.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain a client experience framework for Private Bank and Wealth Management using existing and newly generated data points from internal and external sources
• Develop a differentiated client persona framework
• Manage and partner with the PBWM Client Journey Specialist to use client experience data to improve journey pain points and client satisfaction
• Develop strategies to proactively enhance client satisfaction and retention
• Partner with stakeholders across PBWM to translate client experience data into actionable tasks to build a client-centric culture
• Identify and facilitate solutions to poor client experiences for PBWM clients who straddle business units across Barclays
• Partner with client experience leaders across the Barclays Group to build and embed best practice in PBWM
• Be the driving force behind a client-obsessed culture through the delivery of training and advocacy across PBWM

Purpose of the role

To contribute to and enhance NPS by improving customer experience across touchpoints, ensuring experience and messaging is consistent and customer centric. Includes customer journey mapping to identify areas for improvement, refining customer interactions

Accountabilities

• Mapping and analysing the customers journey across all touchpoints including key interactions, pain points and identify opportunities for improvement in the customer experience.
• Development of customer personas to personalise their experience based off demographics, behaviour and needs.
• Development and implementation of strategies to improve customer satisfaction, loyalty and other customer KPI’s, as needed.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to ensure consistent and positive customer experiences throughout their journey.
• Implement consistency in messaging and branding across all customer-facing channels, where applicable.

Director Expectations

To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..

• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

Source: Barclays