Relationship Manager
Leeds

As a Barclays Relationship Manager, you will sit within the Corporate Bank that supports clients in the UK and around the world. Barclays Corporate Bank services medium enterprises, large UK and global corporations and financial institutions. In this role, you will manage a portfolio of approximately 50 clients within the Mid-Corporate remit, proactively identifying their needs and work with business partners to provide and execute solutions direct with the client.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. 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.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Developing practical and appropriate credit solutions / lending structures through understanding customer needs and completing credit applications as appropriate
• Leading and managing the co-ordination, analysis and execution of complex transactions across the Relationship Director population
• Determining and researching target names and assisting the Relationship Directors in client acquisition, key business introducer and business development strategies
• Updating regularly the Head of Mid-Corporate on team business development results to support the market share growth aspirations
• Owning and driving a personal development plan that helps in the succession to a Relationship Director role
• Visiting proactively and having strategic discussions with portfolio owned clients a least 4 times per annum
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key contacts within the client’s business

What we’re looking for:

• General banking skills including the ability to discuss strategic financial advice
• Developed business awareness, to include impact of general economic change on a corporate’s business
• Familiarity with Credit Risk
• Product Knowledge

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence clients
• Driven for exceeding targets and great results
• Solid relationship and partnership approach

Where will you be working?
We are located in the heart of the City, which is the financial and professional services centre for the region. Our offices are a few minutes’ walk from the central train station. The office is conveniently located close to many shops and restaurants in this vibrant part of the city.

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