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Job Title:       Head of Affluent Banking

Organisation: Barclays
Bank UK

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: Retail
and Business Banking Director

About Barclays UK:

Barclays is a
British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in
London. It is a universal bank with operations in retail, wholesale and
investment banking, as well as wealth management, mortgage lending and credit
cards. It has operations in over 50 countries and territories and has around 48
million customers. As of 31 December 2011, Barclays had total assets of US$2.42
trillion, the seventh-largest of any bank worldwide.

Job Summary:  The Head of Affluent Banking will have the
main responsibility for implementation of the agreed Premier strategy in
Uganda, driving and delivering exceptional business performance through
powerful leadership of the Premier Banking Team. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Strategy and
Business Planning

Providing Powerful
Leadership: 40%

• Build, develop and motivate high
  performing teams committed to achieving success through each other
• Ensure that your Managers are developed
  to achieve their maximum potential whilst also coaching them to build
  their awareness of the strengths/development needs of their people
• Effective resource management/planning
  that reflect current and future business requirements – ensuring the
  correct balance of numbers, skills and experience of your people
• For all direct reports, agreeing
  challenging performance objectives and measures providing regular feedback
  and honest assessment on achievements
• In the way you lead on a daily basis, be
  a role model for your people – doing things wholeheartedly, communicating
  with passion and enthusiasm, embracing change as a way of working
• Creating an empowering environment for
  your people encouraging individual ownership, initiative and challenge of
  the status quo
• Pursue your own development to increase
  personal effectiveness acknowledging strengths and areas for development

Driving Business
Direction 40%

• Work with the Retail Director to agree
  the proposition strategy for Premier
• Own and bring this strategy to life for
  stakeholders, clients and colleagues to provide clear direction on the
  proposition objectives.  Translate
  and prioritize the objectives into business performance measures at
  cluster level
• Accountable for overall achievement of
  Retail Performance Objectives for nominated areas:

o       
Employee
satisfaction

o       
Customer
experience

o       
Sales
growth and income contribution

o       
Cost
performance

o       
Operational
Risk and Rigour management

• Understand and articulate aggregated
  cluster requirements and feed this back to the -proposition Director to
  shape the client offering
• Collaborate cross – functionally to
  provide high standards of service delivery

Team work   20%

• Work closely with the Retail Director,
  to deliver exceptional business performance
• Ensure RDs are aware and supportive of
  proposition plans and own the agreed strategy when challenged
• Work together with other RD and the
  Pan-African Support team, to deliver exceptional performance across
  Barclays Africa
• Recruitment and training of a skilled
  Premier relationship and client support team
• Aggressively recruit potential Premier
  clients to the proposition to hit income targets
• Manage awareness of refreshed Premier
  offering amongst target client market and internal stakeholders
• Dramatically improve client perception
  of the Premier service

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the Barclays
  Bank Head of Affluent Banking job should have a finance degree
• Three years of experience as an account
  manager in a large financial institution
• Possess in – depth understanding of the
  full range of Premier product set, and an overview of Corporate.
• An understanding of technical support
  systems
• Detailed understanding of Premier
  Strategy, operating structure and interface with other functions
• Good understanding of Barclays Africa
  Group structure and interfaces with other functions
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of
  competitor and market activity in local cluster.
• 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
• Time management skills
• Strong planning & organization
  skills
• Good PC skills
• Good numeric & analytical skills
• Proven team working skills
• Fraud prevention skills
• Excellent listening 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

Barclays is an equal
opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on merit, and
rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and gender.

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