Barclays

Colleague Engagement Lead

Barclays$140K — $200K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in developing and implementing colleague engagement strategies
  • Strong analytical skills to convert data into actionable insights
  • Proven track record of creating executive-level presentations and reporting
  • Exceptional stakeholder engagement abilities to influence senior leadership
  • Outstanding communication skills with a focus on engaging content creation
  • Experience in employee engagement within HR or business functions
  • Familiarity with analytics tools like Power BI and SharePoint.

Responsibilities

  • Lead communication efforts to align senior leaders with employee sentiment insight
  • Enhance alignment between business strategies and employee engagement
  • Design and implement culture-shaping communication initiatives
  • Develop communication strategies to support organizational change
  • Manage crisis communications addressing employee roles in client engagement
  • Build a high-performing team to enhance departmental skills

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous 401(k) plan
  • Life insurance offerings
  • Paid leave for qualifying situations
  • Eligibility for an incentive award
Full Job Description
Job Description

Purpose of the role

To build strong and effective partnerships with the senior leadership of the organisation, advising on how to engage and influence employees to achieve the business's goals, through an insight-based employee communications strategy, backed up with outstanding execution capability.

Accountabilities
  • Leadership communication, using detailed, systematic insight research to help senior leaders understand employee sentiment, and empower them to communicate empathetically with their people.
  • Business strategy alignment, building belief in the strategy of the organisation, and the progress being made, with a strong focus on the impact employees have on the client experience.
  • Culture and employee proposition communication, designing and implementing communication interventions that influence individual behaviour to create a culture built on the Barclays Mindset; demonstrate why the organisation is a great place to work.
  • Change delivery, creating communication interventions that build employee commitment and capability through organisational change.
  • Crisis and issues management, working closely with the senior team as part of the management response, focused on the role of employees in engaging clients.
  • Capability building, leading and developing a high-performing team, building individual skills and team capabilities.


Vice President Expectations
  • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
  • 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..
  • OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.


To be successful as a Colleague Engagement Lead - VP, you should have:

  • Experience developing and implementing people, teams, or colleague engagement strategies
  • Considerable analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
  • Experience producing executive-level reporting, presentations, and business insights
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to influence senior decision-makers and cross-functional partners
  • Ample communication skills with experience creating engaging messages, presentations, and colleague-focused content


Other highly valued skills include:

  • Confirmed ability to oversee multiple programs simultaneously and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience within employee engagement, communications, HR, COO, or business oversee functions
  • Knowledge of team's analytics and colleague data reporting
  • Experience using Power BI, SharePoint, or workflow automation tools
  • Familiarity with Early Careers, learning and development or colleague experience programs


You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $140,000
Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

About Barclays

Barclays is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company. The company was founded in 1690 and is headquartered in London, England. Barclays provides a range of financial services, including retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, and wealth management. The company operates in over 40 countries and has over 83,000 employees. In 2020, Barclays reported revenue of £21.8 billion and net income of £1.5 billion. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Learn more about Barclays
Size
81,600 employees
Market Cap
$30.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
-5%
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