Business Hiring Lead VP

Business Hiring Lead (VP)

Purpose of the role:

To provide end‑to‑end leadership and accountability for delivery of the large‑scale Advisor hiring programme within Planning and Advice.

Key accountabilities:

• Own overall hiring strategy, delivery plan and timeline for Planning & Advice growth.

• Act as single point of accountability for hiring outcomes, risks and dependencies.

• Manage senior stakeholders across Business, HR, Resourcing, Academy and Training.

• Oversee candidate pipeline health, intake planning and hiring MI.

• Ensure hiring activity meets regulatory, controls and governance standards.

• Identify delivery risks early and drive corrective actions.

• Coordinate demand with Academy and induction capacity to optimise time‑to‑productivity.

To be successful as a Business Hiring Lead – Planning and Advice, you should have experience with:

• Leading end-to-end, large-scale hiring programmes (ideally within regulated financial services), from strategy through to delivery against target outcomes.

• Owning a hiring delivery plan, critical path, RAID and dependencies across multiple workstreams and third parties.

• Managing senior stakeholders across Business, HR/Resourcing and learning functions, with strong influencing and governance management.

• Pipeline management, intake planning and MI reporting—using data to track funnel conversion, spot constraints and drive decisions.

• Operating within a strong risk and control environment, ensuring hiring activity meets regulatory expectations, policies and governance standards.

• Identifying delivery risks early and driving corrective actions to maintain momentum and protect outcomes.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Influence fast at senior level—credible, confident and able to align decisions across stakeholders

• Communicate with impact—clear, concise storytelling and recommendations backed by evidence.

• Drive delivery through ambiguity—spot risks early, solve problems quickly and keep momentum.

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.