Banking Jobs – Portfolio Manager – Cards Job Opportunity at Barclays

Organisation: Barclays
Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Head of
Cards Issuing
 About
Barclays Africa: 
Barclays
Africa encompasses Barclays Global Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, and
Barclaycard operations in 10 countries organised in four geographic areas:
North Africa (Egypt), East and West Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and
Kenya),  Southern Africa (Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and Indian Ocean
(Mauritius and Seychelles).
Barclays
Africa serves its 2.8m customers through a network of 573 branches and service
centres providing a variety of traditional financial products including retail
mortgages, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending, unsecured lending,
credit cards, treasury and investments.
Job Summary: The Portfolio
Manager will be responsible for team coordination, ensuring that processing
team processes work received from the sales team well and delivers it to
Barclaycard operations in good time
Key Duties &
Responsibilities:
1. Portfolio Management
and Service  85%
  • Designing and implementing key interventions to
    grow card usage for active cards and meet laid down growth targets.
  • Develop strategies to ensure increased
    activation of cards by the inactive card base.
  • Provide data that will enable the sales team to
    drive their sales targets.
  • Satisfy client’s ongoing financial planning
    needs identified by Portfolio MI analyst and develop strategies and plans
    to implement unique customer solutions as appropriate such as Loan on Card
    and Loan on Phone products.
  • Optimize portfolio potential in conjunction
    with Product  Manager, planning/undertaking effective marketing
    campaigns.
  • Establish and develop card usage opportunities
    to meet the clients’ needs, introducing and working in conjunction with
    segment specialists, key among which will be Marketing.
  • Optimize portfolio potential in conjunction
    with Sales Manager/Portfolio manager by supporting the various campaigns
    that the portfolio team runs with.
  • Liaising with other departments to ensure
    smooth low of work and that customer queries are resolved in the shortest
    time possible.
  • Customer service and complaints management
  • Push Installments products, Spend Campaigns,
    CLM Model and Upgrades, pre approved card sales.
  • Ensure Barclaycard Operations within the
    service level agreement times and sending weekly request to customer
    service for generation of LOP/EIP advise letters. Ensure delivery of Pre
    approved card application forms to CROPS.
  • Generating daily reports on processing
    activity.
2.
Business Management 10%
  • Ensure that targeted level of business results
    (i.e. income, costs, client satisfaction and client recruitment) for
    jobholder’s own portfolio are maintain
  • Adhere to standards, legal and regulatory, in
    accordance with the Barclaycard guidance
3.
Staff  Management 5%
  • Implement and maintain a coaching and training
    programme for the Portfolio team members.
  • Manage and motivate staff recognizing
    outstanding performance
  • Lead and direct staff to achieve business
    objectives
Qualifications, Skills
& Experience:
  • The applicant should possess Good knowledge of
    the Card Industry
  • Good understanding of Barclaycard operations
    and products
  • A good understanding of Barclaycard’s systems,
    processes and procedures
  • Detailed knowledge of the Bank’s telephone
    service standards
  • A good understanding of the techniques of
    Performance Management
  • Good understanding of the call centre
    management information systems
  • Experience with call centre operations
    preferably in the banking industry
  • Good knowledge of the Credit Card Industry
  • People Management skills
  • Communication and Presentation
  • Excellent business awareness
  • Business management skills
  • Performance management skills
  • Resource management skills
  • Relationship management skills
  • Team building skills
  • Excellent  PC skills
  • Excellent planning skills
  • Good networking ability
  • Integrity and professionalism
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Forward Planning
  • Good analysis and Judgment
  • Quality Conscious
  • Adaptability
  • Developing People
  • Ability to prioritize
How to Apply:
If
you feel challenged by any of the above positions, and believe you can deliver
on key deliverables as outlined above, upload your application letter, current
curriculum vitae and photocopies of academic certificate to our recruitment
website detail below:
Barclays
is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on
merit, and rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and
gender.
For
queries contact us on 0417122453 or email: barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline:  27th December,
2013

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