As a Barclays UK Executive Recruiter, you will act as a trusted advisor to the business, focusing on Business Banking and Retail Banking recruitment for Barclays. You will own the end-to-end recruitment process for senior leadership roles (Director and MD level), delivering best-in-class executive search services through direct sourcing and strategic talent pipelining. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role where you will leverage your expertise in Retail and Business Banking, Technology and Operations recruitment to identify, engage and secure top-tier talent from both internal and external markets. You will provide a white-glove experience to clients and candidates, ensuring seamless communication and confidence throughout the process.
You will support the business by partnering closely with senior stakeholders, HR Business Partners and Reward to deliver critical hires aligned with organisational priorities. Operating in a fast-paced environment, you will utilise sourcing tools and market intelligence to build strong talent pipelines, while demonstrating deep knowledge of financial services technology and operations. Success in this role requires exceptional negotiation skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to inspire confidence at executive level. This position offers the opportunity to work on high-impact projects within a collaborative HR community, with flexibility and exposure to transformational initiatives across Barclays’ global landscape.
To be successful as a Barclays UK Executive Recruiter, you should have experience with:
Proven experience in executive-level hiring within Business and Retail Banking or Technology, Operations & Digital ideally within Financial Services.
Track record in direct sourcing for both senior contingent and retained search type hires.
In-house recruitment experience.
Deep understanding of organisational structures and leadership roles within banking.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills. Experience recruiting for senior executive technology and operations roles in global banking environments will be highly valued.
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.
Purpose of the role
To source, attract and hire executive level talent across the organisation.
Accountabilities
Identify potential candidates through various channels such as job boards, social media, professional networks, and employee referrals.
Build and maintain an executive talent pipeline to anticipate hiring needs.
Provide hiring recommendations and assist in the negotiation of job offers.
Manage key stakeholders, including people leaders, HR colleagues, and executive search firms.
Monitor and report key recruitment metrics like time-to-fill, cost per hire, and source of hire.
Identify areas for improvement and optimization in the recruitment process.
Conduct full lifecycle recruitment including:
o Client briefing and understanding the role.
o Initial research to build a longlist of candidates.
o Pre-screening longlisted candidates to build a shortlist.
o Manage interviews and feedback loops between search firms, clients, interview panels, and candidates.
o Ensure a best-in-class client and candidate experience.
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. 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- 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.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- 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. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- 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.
