Investments Services Platforms, VP

The posting

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.

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.

Reporting to the Head of ISP Singapore and India, the Singapore ISP Derivatives Solutions role is responsible for the end-to-end operating model supporting the Private Bank's derivatives business across both Run-the-Bank (RTB) and Change-the-Bank (CTB) activities. Acting as the key liaison between Front Office, Technology, Operations, Risk, Legal, Compliance and Finance, the role oversees the full derivatives product lifecycle, including product governance, trade execution, lifecycle management, pricing and valuation governance, risk and controls, regulatory compliance, audit engagement and operational resilience. The incumbent will maintain governance frameworks, monitor operational and control effectiveness, manage regulatory and audit remediation, and ensure compliance with product approval and trading standards. In addition, the role will drive strategic transformation initiatives across equity and FX derivatives products, partnering with Technology, Operations and Product Specialists to deliver process improvements, platform enhancements, automation, regulatory change programmes and target operating model design. The position plays a critical role in improving client experience, enhancing operational efficiency, reducing risk, and supporting the sustainable growth of the derivatives franchise through innovation, governance and front-to-back business management.

The successful candidate will:

• Be action oriented and organised with the ability to handle a number of tasks simultaneously and prioritise accordingly.
• Be self-motivated, able to work on their own initiative and remain calm under pressure.
• Have good interpersonal and influencing skills, as well as the ability to work as part of a team.
• Have the ability to absorb, analyse and provide concise and accurate summary of complex information to inform and potentially guide senior management decision-making.
• The role holder will have a excellent grasp of investments processes and ideally possess knowledge of systems i.e. Avaloq, FinIQ and Bloomberg OMS etc and procedures. With dual skills across technology and business.
• They will demonstrate a logical and structured approach to achieving desired outcomes along with good written and oral communication with ability to communicate across all levels.
• The right candidate will display high integrity and trust due to the sensitive nature of information handled.
• The successful candidate will have worked in a business facing roles working with Front Office, Product teams and supporting Agile Delivery team.
• Have a successful and extensive track record in delivering Processes and Platform changes.
• At least 10 years in experience in a Private Bank/Wealth Management/Investment Bank environment.
• The role would involve both BAU (support the Products Governance) and Change the Bank responsibilities.

This role is regulated by MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore).

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