About the Role
Lead and facilitate human-centered design excellence to drive innovation, meet customer needs, and ensure the bank's long-term success. Advocate for customers in business decisions, balancing commercial aims, delivery feasibility, and regulatory requirements with high-quality customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Identify and distill needs to support the creation of balanced business cases.
- Deliver high-quality insight and design outputs, managing project budgets and external agencies.
- Facilitate problem statement identification and prioritization across business areas.
- Lead solution discovery and co-ordinate solution/service designs, ensuring solution integrity.
- Evaluate program or product risks to mitigate potential issues through iterative design and testing.
- Build a culture that understands the value of customer-focused, human-centric design.
- Conduct customer research, listening, testing, and market scanning.
- Monitor market trends, competitor insights, and wider macro trends.
- Incorporate colleague feedback into service provision investigations.
- Test designs and experiences through prototypes with target customers and colleagues.
- Translate identified areas for improvement into clear customer and commercial benefits.
- Implement agile ways of working within teams for greater efficiency.
- Deliver accurate insight on core CX outcomes and build awareness around critical customer metrics.
- Promote and build a stronger customer experience culture with stakeholders.
- Contribute to 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.
- Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to pay decisions (if managing a team).
- Lead specialists to influence department operations, balancing short and long-term goals.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive (if a People Leader).
- Act as a subject matter expert and guide technical direction (if an individual contributor).
- Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members (if an individual contributor).
- Identify the need for other specializations and train/guide/coach less experienced specialists (if an individual contributor).
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organization functions to contribute to business goals.
- Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Elevate the quality, consistency, and impact of data visualisations.
- Lead the design and delivery of effective, intuitive, and accessible dashboards.
Requirements
- Advanced Tableau skills, including building complex dashboards, calculations, and interactive features.
- Demonstrated expertise in data visualisation principles and best practices.
- Excellent capability in report writing and presenting insights to senior stakeholders.
- Risk and controls knowledge.
- Change and transformation knowledge.
- Business acumen.
- Strategic thinking.
- Digital and technology knowledge.
- Job-specific technical skills.
Skills
- Human-centred design
- Data visualisation
- Tableau
- Report writing
- Presentation skills
- Agile methodologies
- Customer research
- Market scanning
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing
- Negotiating
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
Location
- Knutsford
- Northampton
- Manchester
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Lead
About the Company
- Barclays is seeking a highly skilled Insight & Design Lead to join the Data Decisioning team within the Chief Data & Analytics Office.
- Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.
