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Join us as a Strategic Enablement Manager – Savings & Insurance at Barclays, where you’ll enable the business to deliver on its ambitious strategic plans. In this role, you’ll help shape long‑term strategy by analysing market dynamics, regulatory trends, future customer needs and innovation opportunities to identify gaps and opportunities that support our customers, colleagues and the wider business. You’ll also ensure the smooth and effective running of the Savings & Insurance business through high‑quality reporting and senior leadership engagement, keeping our priority agenda aligned and on track. Alongside this, you will drive colleague enablement by supporting the development of a high‑performing workforce equipped with the right tools, capabilities and opportunities to thrive. Ultimately, you will play a pivotal role in enabling business success and supporting our strategic plans for the future.
Job Responsibility:
Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation
Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives
Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met
Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU
Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed
Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies
Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans
Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully
Requirements:
Strategic thinking – Ability to take complex or ambiguous problems, analyse the market landscape, and develop innovative, insight‑led recommendations
Business and commercial acumen – Skilled at connecting the dots across data, trends, and business drivers to inform sound decisions
Stakeholder management – Comfortable engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, including peers and senior leaders, with great presentation and influencing skills
Communication skills – Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce high‑quality, board‑level PowerPoint materials and reports
Self‑starter mindset – Independent, driven, and able to take ownership while contributing to a high‑performance culture
Nice to have:
Experience working in large‑scale organisations and within financial services, with great understanding of complex structures and regulated environments
Background in retail banking, with familiarity in relevant products, customer needs, and operational processes
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