Commercial Performance Business Partner

Join us as Commercial Performance Business Partner leveraging commercial analytics experience to provide key insights and support for Acquiring & Issuing performance across key commercial activity including Scheme Modelling and contract negotiation support. Working closely with stakeholders in sales and product teams, you will lead commercial analysis for business cases, forward-looking analytics, and support the Commercial Plan process. The role also involves delivering commercial insights for SME Management Forums, as well as broader analytics and performance insights through Coverage dashboards. The ideal candidate should be adept at income scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, and performance management-translating data into financial insights and models, particularly within the context of commercial card scheme negotiations. The position offers significant opportunities for growth.

Essential Skills:

• Financial and scenario modelling.
• Performance management.
• Translating data into financial insights and models.
• Excel, PowerPoint, MI analysis, Stakeholder management.

Desirable Skills:

• Confident presenter with expertise in data mining and manipulation of raw data, combined with experience in business case development and project management.

This role can be based in Northampton or London.

Purpose of the role:

To extract meaningful insights from complex data sets, developing robust decision models, and presenting actionable recommendations to stakeholders across the departments.

Accountabilities:

• Identification and extraction of relevant data from various internal and external sources.
• Performing sensitivity analysis and scenario planning.
• Monitoring and evaluation of the performance of existing models.
• Development and implementation of data quality control procedures.
• Building and validation of quantitative models to support decision-making across different business areas.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.