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Join us as a Junior Structured Products Specialist and take up a role in the design, structuring, and ongoing management of structured investment solutions for our private banking clients (both UK and International) covered by UK based bankers. This high-impact position sits within the Investments team, forming a critical bridge between front office stakeholders, infrastructure teams (legal, compliance, operations, finance), and external product providers. You will be responsible for developing tailored products aligned with client goals and Barclays’ market outlook, managing the full product lifecycle from idea generation through to post-sale performance monitoring. Your role also includes platform and process enhancements, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining relationships across both internal and external partners to ensure successful delivery and continuous innovation in our structured product offering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Originate, structure, and manage structured products aligned with Barclays Research and client needs.
• Source competitive pricing, coordinate with external issuers, and ensure compliance with governance frameworks.
• Oversee the full product lifecycle—from launch to maturity—and provide post-sales insights and analysis.
• Involvement in platform development projects to enhance product delivery and operational efficiency.
• Work closely with legal, compliance, and operations to ensure regulatory and risk requirements are fully met.
• Provide support to Senior members of the Structured Products team, and sales desk, where needed.

Essential Skills:

• Experience in structured products and derivatives across asset classes.
• An understanding of private client investment needs and distribution channels.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder relationships skills, especially across front office and support teams.

Desirable Skills:

• Fluency in English; additional languages are a plus.
• Experience operating in a matrixed, cross-regional environment.
• Relevant finance qualifications (e.g. CFA, MBA, MiF).

Personal Attributes:

• Resourceful, self-driven, and highly organised with excellent problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable handling multiple priorities within tight deadlines
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a collaborative approach and good integrity.

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 London.

This role is deemed as a Certified role under the PRA & UK Financial Conduct Authority - Individual Accountabilities Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Purpose of the role

To develop and manage the success of specific financial products and services, providing in-depth expertise on a particular product line, bridging the gap between product development, marketing, sales, and customer service.

Accountabilities

• Provision of SME expertise on specific products and services to customers and colleagues, including features, functionalities, benefits, limitations, risks and compliance.
• Identification of market trends, new features, regulatory requirements and potential risks, and analysis of data obtained from sales figures and, customer feedback, to support the product development process, and communicate key findings to relevant stakeholders to improve product offerings.
• Response to customer inquiries, resolution of issues, and provision of guidance on product usage. .
• Presentation of the advantages and features of the product to potential customers, building trust and encouraging adoption.
• Assistance with the development and execution of marketing materials for the product, such as brochures, presentations, and online content.
• Participation in training sessions and workshops to share product knowledge and expertise with colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Participation in events, conferences, and other networking opportunities to showcase the product and generate interest.

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.