Product Manager - Prime Equities

As a Product Manager within Global Markets Prime Equities at Barclays, you will have responsibility for supporting a range of products and processes across the business area. This will entail providing analysis, process improvement, and governance across multiple products whilst working closely with sales and trading teams.

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

• Product/Business Management within Investment Banking
• Relevant Prime Services Product knowledge
• Understanding and application of financial regulations

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Emphasis on excellent communication
• Ability to engage with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Project management - an ability to prioritize and manage tasks

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.

Purpose of the role

To develop, launch, and manage the portfolio of financial products and services for the global markets, collaborating with a team of product managers, traders, risk managers, and other stakeholders to define product strategies, develop roadmaps, and bring new products to market, also playing a key role in gathering and analysis of market intelligence, identifying client needs, and developing competitive differentiators.

Accountabilities

• Development and execution of product strategy for financial products and services offered within the Markets division.
• Identification of market opportunities and customer needs to create new products or enhance existing ones.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including traders, sales, risk management, and technology, to define product requirements.
• Market data analysis to make informed decisions regarding product positioning and pricing.
• Management of the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch and ongoing maintenance.
• Monitoring of product performance, through analysing metrics and client feedback.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• 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
  • Perform 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.
• 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 combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.