2 Barclays Bank Career Opportunities – Relationship Manager-Global Development Organisations

Organisation: Barclays
Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Head of Institutional 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 Relationship Manager-Global Development
Organisations for the Barclays Bank franchise will mainly do the following:
  • Manage
    and sustain a portfolio of corporate customers under the umbrella of
    Global Development Organizations and or Public sector names, building long
    term relationships founded on efficient and reliable support for their
    business. This is achieved particularly through quick risk decisions and
    managing consistency and quality of operational service.
  • The
    primary job objective is to maximize risk-adjusted portfolio contribution;
    and to grow the liability base of the Corporate bank.
  • The
    incumbent will also be responsible for business development both with new
    customers and with existing customers where they are expected to increase
    “wallet share”.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Sales and Service: 65%
  • Maintain
    Relationship Account Plans for all customers in the portfolio such that
    contact with customers is prioritized.
  • Carry
    out annual and if appropriate, interim reviews of customers borrowing
    facilities
  • Conduct
    annual and if appropriate, interim reviews with non-borrowing customers
  • Determine
    the key messages, e.g. agreed service standards, negotiated pricing,
    relationship team contact points and new product changes, deciding upon
    the most appropriate communication method
  • Deal
    with and find adequate  solutions to
    customer complaints
  • Determine
    the products that are most effective in meeting customers’ needs and be
    able to sell these at short notice both reactively and proactively.
  • Research,
    create and follow up a target list for potential new business.
2. Business Management 30%
  • Research,
    create and follow up on a target list for potential new business
  • Help
    in the identification of priority customers using the Customer
    Relationship Planning templates to assess their present and potential
    contribution.
  • Gather
    and collect all the required information that is needed to prepare and
    assess credit applications. Role holder will be expected to input certain
    key information such as judgmental information. (They will work with
    Associate Relationship Managers (ARMs) 
    and Corporate Credit Manager (CCM) resources to construct credit
    applications).
  • Control
    and quality of the portfolio, using available triggers and adherence to
    Risk management guidelines and policies.
3. Staff Management 5% : Day to day coaching and development of
Assistant Relationship managers (ARMs)
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The
    applicant should have extensive knowledge of the Bank’s products, services
    and policies.
  • Possess
    a detailed knowledge of the Corporate set of products as well as a broad
    understanding of products available in Barclays Africa Group.
  • For
    Complex products, will have a detailed knowledge of the requirements of
    the more sophisticated customers.
  • Introduce
    the product and co-ordinate the introduction of the relevant Group product
    specialist.
  • Possess
    extensive knowledge and understanding of policies and strategies within
    the country as they relate to the demands of the customer base.
  • Possess
    a detailed understanding of Country and CBRM guidelines and credit risk
    policies.
  • The
    job holders will be ACIB or equivalent (optional)
  • Excellent
    relationship skills
  • Credit
    Risk skills, (an added advantage especially for Public sector names)
  • General
    Corporate skills
  • Excellent
    communications skills
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:
Click
Here
-> Job Number (Type  00140206)
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 March, 2014

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