Join us as a Customer Care Leader within the Core Money Management, Everyday Banking, and Premier teams here at Barclays. In this role, you will lead a high‑performing contact centre team—coaching, inspiring, and engaging colleagues so they can consistently deliver exceptional service for our customers.
You will invest time and energy into developing your people, fostering a culture where everyone feels motivated and supported to do their best work. In addition, you will play a key role in supporting operational performance, managing projects and workstreams, and driving initiatives that contribute to overall business growth.
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Proven experience in coaching and mentorship
- Strong understanding of contact centre environments
- Ability to interpret and use data effectively to drive performance
- Resilience, empathy, and the ability to support colleagues through change
Additional skills include:
- Experience as a People Leader
- Openness and willingness to learn and adopt AI tools
- Ability to adapt to change and manage it effectively
You may be assessed on 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 is based in Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
To lead and develop a highly engaged team, pioneering an omni channel experience to achieve consistently excellent customer outcomes. Build and maintain your team’s capability to deliver excellent customer outcomes through identifying, understanding, and meeting customer needs both internally and externally, using available tools and enablers to grow business performance.
Accountabilities
- Customer service to create excellent customer satisfaction and positively influence NPS (Net Promoter Scores), act as an ambassador for Barclays externally and internally, creating connections and growth for customers.
- Identification and maintenance of active performance management standards across the team, communicating to and inspiring colleagues to be commercially minded, achieve goals and expectations, measure them frequently and honestly to ensure personal growth and support early identification and intervention where required.
- Day to day running of the business, using internal and external insights to develop an effective business plan, making evaluative judgments to support customers with their financial needs and drive long term sustainable revenue growth in your area.
- Market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.
- Cultivation of a resolution culture where leaders and colleagues are customer advocates and are empowered to deal with customer requests fairly at first point of contact.
- Creation of an empowering environment, bringing together and supporting a community of colleagues who care about Customers, Colleagues and Outcomes.
- Operational performance of allocated sites and surrounding touchpoints. Ensuring operational and risk frameworks are adhered to for all direct reports, including observations.
- Creation of a culture which enables focus on building deeper relationships with customers and contribute to the overall success of Barclays.
Analyst Expectations
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
- Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
- They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
- 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
- Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.
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.
