Barclays—Vice President - Customer Care Lead

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Description: Job Description Purpose of the role To provide resolutions for customer queries/issues and personalise each interaction through the use of multiple communication channels. Focused on understanding our customers world and providing exceptional customer service. 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. Vice President Expectations - To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.. - If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.. - 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 will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. - Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. - Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. - Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. - Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. - Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. - Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. - Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. - Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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. Step into the role of a Vice President - Customer Care Lead. At Barclays, we’re more than a bank we’re a force for progress and help craft innovative solutions. You will be running an operations unit within Barclays, across cities and sites, managing process performance in line with agreed SLA and targets. You will be driving a culture of continuous improvement and maintaining effective working relationships with key stakeholders within BGSC and related customer business areas. To be successful as a Vice President - Customer Care Lead, you should have experience with: - Familiar with MS Office and able to use the desktop computer, Proficient in using various communications channels. - Graduate in any discipline, preferably an MBA/ PGDBM from a reputed institute with relevant years of work experience with a senior managerial level of leading large teams across multiple processes. - Prior experience in Customer Service preferred. Experience with leading Financial Services BPOs/Large BPO setup is desirable. - Excellent track record during past work experience; Stability in previous roles. - Prior experience of leading AML operations for retail or MSME either in banks or fintech. - Head Count of 80 -100+ managed as a people leader. - Experience of running transformation and automation on AML operations will be added advantage. - Should be flexible for any shifts and work on Indian holidays. Some other highly valued skills may include: - Should be well versed with Quality, Lean, Six Sigma methodology. - Knowledge about RPA and hands on experience on leading robotic projects. - Familiarity with BUK Operations and aligned functions under its remit. 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. This role is based in our Pune office.