Head of Agriculture (Wales & West Region)
Barclays · Bristol
Join Barclays as the Regional Head of Agriculture for the South West region.
You will lead a team of Agricultural Relationship Directors and Managers, driving commercial performance, strategic execution and colleague development across the region. You will be accountable for delivering business growth, deepening client relationships and ensuring consistent execution of Barclays' Agriculture strategy.
Working closely with colleagues across Business Banking and specialist functions, you will create a high-performance culture focused on good client outcomes, business development, risk management and sustainable growth. As the regional face of Barclays Agriculture, you will represent the bank externally, strengthen industry relationships and identify opportunities to enhance our position within the sector.
Essential Criteria
- Proven leadership experience within the agriculture sector, or another specialist commercial banking sector.
- Strong track record of driving commercial performance and delivering against strategic objectives.
- Excellent commercial acumen, with the ability to identify and execute on growth opportunities while responding to competitive pressures.
- Strong financial and portfolio management expertise.
- Experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams.
Desired Criteria
- Strong knowledge and experience of agricultural credit and lending.
- Experience developing strategic relationships across industry bodies, professional introducers and key sector stakeholders.
- Understanding of market dynamics, customer needs and emerging opportunities within the agricultural sector.
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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role would be based in the Wales & West Region.
Purpose of the role
To manage relationship management initiatives and set the strategic direction. Provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage product development risk across the organisation.
Accountabilities
- Development of strategic direction for relationship management, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes.
- Management of relationship management initiatives, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness. .
- Relationship management of relationship management stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
- Development and implementation of policies and procedures for relationship management.
- Management of relationship management risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s relationship management and compliance functions. .
- Monitoring the financial performance of relationship management, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
- Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.
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.
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.