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The Director, Merchant Onboarding is accountable for establishing and leading a centralised, end-to-end merchant onboarding function across Barclays Acquiring. The role owns the design, build, and ongoing performance of the onboarding operating model, ensuring merchants are onboarded efficiently, compliantly, and with a consistently high-quality experience that accelerates time-to-revenue. The role will consolidate onboarding-related capabilities where appropriate (including Professional Services), act as the single point of accountability for onboarding outcomes, and serve as the primary business interface with Product and Technology teams to drive onboarding priorities.
Job Responsibility:
Accountable for establishing and leading a centralised, end-to-end merchant onboarding function across Barclays Acquiring
Own the design, build, and ongoing performance of the onboarding operating model
Ensure merchants are onboarded efficiently, compliantly, and with a consistently high-quality experience that accelerates time-to-revenue
Consolidate onboarding-related capabilities where appropriate
Act as the single point of accountability for onboarding outcomes
Serve as the primary business interface with Product and Technology teams to drive onboarding priorities
Requirements:
Define and own the end-to-end merchant onboarding operating model
Identify onboarding activities currently distributed across the organisation and recommend consolidation
Establish clear ownership, governance, service levels, and escalation paths
Design, build, and lead the merchant onboarding organisation
Create a strong leadership team and culture focused on delivery excellence
Define and maintain clear engagement models with Sales, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Product, and Technology
Own onboarding delivery performance across all merchant segments
Drive improvements in onboarding cycle times, quality, and predictability
Ensure onboarding processes are robust, scalable, and compliant
Act as the single senior business owner for onboarding capabilities with Product and Technology teams
Define onboarding requirements, priorities, and success measures
Champion automation and tooling
Partner closely with the Chief Revenue Officer and commercial teams
Provide transparency on onboarding capacity, constraints, and risks
Development and implementation of technology strategies
Strategic leadership to the business on all technology matters
Alignment to global data governance frameworks
Implementation of technology practices according to security, compliance and regulatory requirements
Digital transformation/change projects, programmes and initiatives
Management of the technology team
Management of the technology budgets
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
Foster and guide compliance
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (Listen and be authentic
Energise and inspire
Align across the enterprise
Develop others)
Demonstrate the Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship)
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset (to Empower, Challenge and Drive)