Job Description

Purpose of the role

To source, attract and hire qualified candidates for a variety of roles and levels across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of recruitment strategies and programmes that align with the bank’s business goals, including the identification potential candidates through various channels, including job boards, social media, professional networks, and employee referrals.
• Build and maintain talent needs assessment to anticipate hiring needs and maintain a talent pipeline to ensure a consistent pool of qualified candidates.
• Development of compelling job postings and marketing materials, execution and coordination of sourcing, screening and interviewing to assess candidates, making hiring recommendations and negotiating job offers.
• Onboarding processes for new hires, to facilitate a smooth transition into the organisation.
• Monitoring and reporting of key recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill, cost per hire, and source of hire, including the identification of areas for improvement and optimisation.
• Stakeholder management of hiring managers, talent sourcing firms, and professional organisations to develop a strong talent pipeline.

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.

Join us as Wealth Management Business Hiring Lead to provide end‑to‑end leadership and accountability for the delivery of a large‑scale Advisor hiring programme within Planning and Advice. In this role, you will bring clarity and direction to hiring activity, shaping the overall approach and ensuring delivery stays aligned to growth plans and timelines. You will act as the central point of accountability for hiring outcomes, working closely with colleagues across the Business, HR, Resourcing, Academy and Training to keep everything connected and moving forward. You will keep a close view of pipeline health, intake planning and hiring data, ensuring activity meets regulatory and governance expectations. By identifying risks early and coordinating closely with learning and induction capacity, you will help create a smooth path from hiring through to productivity.

To be successful as a Wealth Management Business Hiring Lead, you should have experience with:

• Leading end‑to‑end, large‑scale hiring programmes, ideally within a regulated financial services environment, from initial strategy through to delivery against agreed outcomes.
• Owning a hiring delivery plan, including timelines, dependencies, risks and coordination across multiple workstreams and partner teams.
• Working closely with senior stakeholders across Business, HR/Resourcing and learning functions, building alignment and supporting clear decision making.
• Overseeing pipeline health, intake planning and MI reporting, using data to track progress, highlight constraints and inform next steps.
• Operating within a risk and control environment, ensuring hiring activity aligns with regulatory expectations, policies and governance standards.
• Identifying delivery risks early and putting practical actions in place to maintain progress and protect outcomes.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Influencing at a senior level, building alignment and confidence across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Communicating with impact, sharing clear updates and recommendations supported by relevant information.
• Navigating ambiguity, spotting risks early, solving challenges quickly and maintaining momentum.

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.