As a Barclays Trade and Working Capital (TWC) Product Manager, you will be an integral part of the TWC APAC and Middle East team, within the International Corporate Bank. You will be assisting the APAC and Middle East growth ambition, driving the commerciality of all TWC Products and supporting cross product initiatives for Trade and Working Capital, with emphasis on Product Strategy, Product Innovation and Development, Performance, Regulatory impact, Change and Risk and Controls.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing? - Driving commercialization of all TWC Products in APAC and Middle East to enable business growth, identifying client, market and innovation opportunities
- Helping Global Head of TWC and Product Management to develop and execute APAC and Middle East product strategy and working with deal teams to ensure smooth execution
- Setting the regional product management strategy for Trade and working Capital, with emphasis on innovation, product performance and risk and control
- Assisting with products provided to clients include Bonds, Guarantees and Indemnities, Letters of Credit, Collections, Trade Loans, Receivables Finance etc
- Supporting and managing parts of product documentation and procedures, incl. legal, regulatory, and end-to-end control, and compliance aspects of the supported product set
- Being accountable for content ownership of intranet / internet materials, training and product briefings and helping implementation of TWC projects and initiatives into the region
- Evaluating, planning, optimising, and delivering the product design for new products, processes and product enhancements taking end to end accountabilities
- Pro-actively building successful, deep relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across Barclays to enable delivery of TWC objectives
What we're looking for: - Banking knowledge across broad TWC banking product, systems, and processes, with ability to effectively plan, mobilise people and deliver objectives
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to use evaluative judgment based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information, experience at working in a regulatory environment
- Confident negotiation and diplomacy skills, in order to influence and convince others with high quality written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Successfully been involved in virtual teams to deliver projects and initiatives across the organization, using good PC skills (word processing and spreadsheet applications)
Skills that will help you in the role: - Awareness of products and services available across Trade and Working Capital
- Awareness of macro-economic factors affecting the Trade and Working Capital market, and knowledge of the relevant internal and external processes
- Control Environment: Including Risk Management
- Ability to think creatively and identify innovative solutions
Where will you be working?
Our office is located in Marina Bay Financial Centre, which has been carefully crafted into a "city in a garden". Overlooking the scenic skyline along the Marina Bay waterfront, the green spaces and rooftop terraces have been designed to optimise employee well-being. The centre provides an integrated live-work-play development, surrounded by shops, restaurants, gyms and an alfresco dining area. Our convenient office location means you're just a 5-minute walk from the nearest MRT station.
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