Business Engagement Manager

Join us as a Business Engagement Manager at Barclays where you'll be responsible for developing effective communications across Customer and Digital, helping us ensure our stakeholders understand the Division’s strategy and the value we add. You will be creating engaging content, ensuring consistent, compelling messaging that support employee engagement, and delivering these through a range of channels including weekly newsletters, Viva Engage and division-wide events.

To be successful as a Business Engagement Manager, you should have experience with:

• Great experience in internal and employee communications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to identify engaging content and deliver it through a variety of channels, supported by a proven experience in drafting communications
• Ability to build and develop effective stakeholder relationships, including engagement at senior levels up to MD

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in communications planning and project management
• Solid reporting and evaluation capabilities to measure communication effectiveness
• Ability to film and edit videos for internal engagement
• Proficiency with Canva and other graphic design tools, as well as great PowerPoint skills
• Experience in financial services communications
• Background working in large organisations and within the financial services sector

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.

This role can be based in either London, Northampton, Manchester or Glasgow.

To enable the success of the business and assist senior leaders navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions, and achieve their goals

• Collaboration with business and senior leadership to develop and implement business strategies that align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
• Liaison between different business units and functions, fostering communication and collaboration.
• Management and coordination of strategic initiatives, projects, and change management efforts to optimize business processes and strengthen the control environment.
• Improvement of operational efficiency within the organisation including the identification of areas for improvement, streamlining of processes, and implementation of best practices to enhance productivity and effectiveness.
• Development of performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce the strategic objectives of the division and support the external commitments made. Involvement in aspects of financial analysis and budget management, including assistance in financial planning, forecasting, and monitoring of financial performance against targets.
• Support to business heads in partnership with HR on hiring, workforce planning, joiner/mover/leaver actions.

• 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…