Premier Relationship Manager Career Opportunity at Barclays Bank

Organisation: Barclays Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Head of Premier banking
 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 Premier Relationship Manager will be responsible for the
development and grow relationships with Barclays Premier customers, and growing
the customer base through targeted sales efforts and the delivery of impeccable
service.
Key Duties &
Responsibilities:
1. Relationship
Building 25%
  • Manage
    and grow existing banking relationship with top 40 customers in the
    Premier proposition to increase BBU share of wallet.
  • Establish
    new banking relationships with high net worth customers who may include
    senior management of different corporate companies, local political figures
    and well-known business people.
  • When
    interacting with customers, identify potential opportunities to present
    the bank’s Premier Life offering and ensure that leads are passed on to
    the Premier Life team.
  • Continuously
    monitor the utilization of credit facilities and investment avenues.
    Identify and resolve under-utilization by contacting customers to
    determine the reasons and escalating issues if any.
  • Conduct
    regular customer visits in order to build long-term relationships.
 2. Sales 45%
  • Achieve
    agreed sales targets for new accounts, assets and liabilities, through a
    proactive calling programme to a base of up to 250 clients.
  • Conduct
    a detailed needs analysis for all existing and potential customers to
    determine their products needs. The product suite includes all Premier
    life products in addition to offshore banking and investments.
  • Create
    customer proposals based on the needs analysis and follow through the
    sales process.
  • Conduct
    financial planning for customers in order to play a pro-active role in increasing
    their wealth.
  • Manage
    own calling programme, including identifying names to call on in a
    particular month and setting up the meetings.
  • On
    a monthly basis, compile a report on the calling programme for the month
    and personal sales progress against the targets as agreed. Present the
    report to the Head of Premier banking
 3. Customer Service 15%
  • Monitor
    operational delivery of customer requirements, summarise systemic failures
    and raise to the Head of Premier banking for further follow-up at CMC
    level where necessary.
·               
Log
and create written responses to customer complaints.
·               
Obtain
summaries of complaints and complaint trend analysis from the Service Manager
on a monthly basis.
  • Follow
    up with selected customers to determine if their complaints were handled
    satisfactorily
4.
Rigour and Risk Requirements 15%
  • Conduct risk analysis on the
    portfolio of customers including financial statements and their current
    product set held with Barclays Bank.
  • Submit proposals to Retail Risk for
    new loan applications including motivating interest rates based on the
    risk profile at the time.
  • Check and signoff each new
    account application, loan document, Barclaycard application and bank
    account mandate change. Premier Relationship Managers are held personally
    accountable for accuracy and quality of these and supporting documents
    that they complete and submit.
  • Follow the Retail end to end account
    opening ensuring new accounts are authorised and KYC compliant.
  • Escalate any items that exceed the
    agreed service level time lines or where there are unresolved KYC
    requirements, to management in Operations.
  • Comply with general Barclays
    operational risk & rigour requirements e.g. Health & Safety
    standards and security of premises, KYC and anti-money laundering
    regulations
Qualifications, Skills
& Experience:
  • The applicant should possess a
    finance related degree
  • At least 3 years experience as an
    account manager in a large financial institution
  •  In-depth knowledge of the full
    Barclays Retail product set, including international banking.
  • Good Understanding of Barclays
    Retail strategy, operating structure and interface with other functions
  • Proven networking and social skills
  • Coaching and training skills
  •   Business Management/Financial
    Management
  • Proven sales ability
  • Strong negotiation and influencing
    skills
  •    Excellent communication
    skills – written, oral and presentation
  • Good time management skills
  •  Strong planning & organization skills
  • Good PC skills
  • Good numeric & analytical skills
  • Proven team working skills
  • Fraud prevention skills
  • Excellent listening skills
  • Good understanding of Risk and
    Credit policies and procedures
  • Detailed working knowledge of KYC
    and AML requirements and processes
  • An understanding of people policies
    and procedures
  • Up to date knowledge of competitor
    and market activity in local area
 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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