Barclays—Product Consumer Credit - AVP

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Description: Job Description Purpose of the role Product Managers are responsible for the leading the strategic focus of the product(s), defining the product vision, market strategy, and competitive analysis. They think about the product's future and how it will evolve over time. They work with various teams, including marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, to ensure everyone is aligned on the product strategy. They use data and market research to inform their decisions and prioritize product features. Accountabilities - Define Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals, ensuring that products meet market demands and drive growth. - Cross functional alignment: Leadership of cross functional relationships, working with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals. - Risk and Control: Accountable for overseeing product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the product management and control functions. - Product Development Lifecycle: Own product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience. – working with product owners to drive change objectives. - Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company’s business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision, driving long-term business success. - Data driven decisions: Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the strategies as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer. - Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer -first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process. - Business and financial acumen: Understanding pricing models, costs structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development. 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 performing 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 - 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 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 practises (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. Join us as a "Product Consumer Credit - AVP" Product Sales Data Reporting (PSDR)" at Barclays, where you’ll be supporting the delivery of complete, accurate and timely regulatory submissions. This role will help maintain robust controls, governance and issue management, while proactively engaging with stakeholders across business, data and technology teams to review results, investigate trends and respond to regulatory queries. 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. To be successful as a Product Consumer Credit - AVP, you should have experience with: Essential Skills and Qualifications: - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. - Knowledge of consumer lending products, customer life cycle, for Credit Cards and/or Unsecured Loans. - Experience working with large and complex datasets in a big data environment, using SQL or Python. - Strong analytical skills, including data interrogation, validation, root cause analysis and insight generation. - Ability to communicate technical analysis clearly and translate findings into business actions. - Understanding of key risk types, including regulatory, credit, operational and consumer risk. Key responsibilities: - Plan and execute reporting cycles, ensuring effective monitoring, governance and timely escalation of issues. - Analyze reporting outputs to identify anomalies, trends, risks and emerging issues. - Validate data quality through rigorous challenge, investigation and root cause analysis. - Partner with data, technology and product teams to resolve defects, strengthen controls and improve data quality. - Maintain robust reporting processes and control frameworks to support regulatory obligations and minimize reporting risk. - Maintain reporting documentation, process maps, control inventories and evidence repositories. - Support audit readiness and respond to regulatory, compliance and internal audit requests. - Drive continuous improvements in reporting accuracy, completeness and efficiency. This role will be based out of Gurgaon