Senior Hospitality Manager - VP

Overview

Join us as a Senior Hospitality Manager, where you will lead on some of Barclays’ most premium hospitality programmes; today the portfolio includes partnerships across Football, Tennis, Formula 1 and more. This VP‑level role is critical to delivering complex, high‑value client experiences that deepen relationships, elevate brand presence, and support commercial objectives.

You will develop the end‑to‑end operational plan and execution of our most prestigious hospitality initiatives, manage senior stakeholder and rights‑holder relationships, and ensure the effective use of sponsorship rights. Acting as a strategic operator in complex, hospitality programmes that deliver for our clients. You will champion excellence, operational rigour, and alignment across the wider sponsorship portfolio.

To be successful as a Senior Hospitality Manager, you should have the following experience:

• Deep expertise in planning and executing complex, premium hospitality, and global end‑to‑end events, with overlapping operational work streams, including guest journey design, on‑site delivery, contingency planning and post‑event analysis in high‑pressure environments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational and hospitality workflows into scalable technology systems, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and seamless execution.
• Proven ability to lead and influence senior internal stakeholders, rights holders, agencies and suppliers, balancing brand, commercial, client and reputational considerations.
• Extensive experience in managing large‑scale hospitality operations, including ticketing, accreditation, guest flows, access, accommodation & transportation across multiple markets.
• Ability to translate hospitality strategy into clear operating plans, roadmaps and executive‑ready PPTs, mapping objectives, timelines, budgets, risks and delivery milestones.
• Strong capability to analyse hospitality and sponsorship data to assess performance, demonstrate return on investment and inform future strategy, using guest engagement metrics, attendance data, client outcomes, and post‑event insight to drive evidence‑based decision‑making.

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

To plan, execute, manage and oversee a wide range of events and/ or hospitality initiatives, collaborating with internal stakeholders to understand business objectives and external vendors to develop creative and impactful event or hospitality experiences

• Development, planning and strategic oversight of events of any format, including conferences, seminars, product launches, client appreciation events, external partnership events, sponsored conference programmes, internal engagement events client entertaining through hospitality & ticket only and other marketing initiatives.
• End to end management all aspects of event logistics, including format proposal, all venue and vendor selection and management, production management, content development, delegate, host and speaker management and on site co-ordination of these, as needed.
• Management of the hospitality programme, through Barclays-owned sponsorship assets, contracted memberships and adhoc brokering for clients and internal stakeholders, where applicable.
• Understanding of and adherence to all applicable internal controls throughout the planning process as well as identifying and mitigating potential areas of risk.
• Post event or hospitality assessments to analyse the success of each initiative and identify areas for improvement.
• Expert advisor and partner to stakeholders and hosts to ensure event delivery meets their aims and objectives, in certain cases.
• Build and maintenance of industry relationships with suppliers and industry experts to stay at the forefront of event & hospitality trends, technology advances, new openings and best practices, where applicable.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for…