Senior Product Manager - BPL

Join us as a Senior Product Manager you will lead the strategy and evolution of authorisation capabilities across acquiring, ensuring systems are reliable, efficient and aligned with regulatory and scheme requirements. This role sits at the centre of balancing approval performance, customer experience and risk, while shaping how current and future authorisation platforms are designed and delivered. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders to guide investment decisions and drive improvements across a complex, high volume payments environment.

Key Qualifications

• Experience in card payments authorisations, including acquiring flows, scheme rules and stand in processing
• Experience defining product strategy, building roadmaps and delivering through cross functional teams
• Ability to prioritise initiatives based on value, balancing commercial outcomes, risk and customer needs
• Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders and communicating trade offs clearly
• Understanding of regulatory expectations and performance requirements within payments
• Ability to operate across both strategic planning and day to day delivery in a complex environment

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to both legacy and modern authorisation platforms (e.g. ACI / Base24, RS2, in house or scheme hosted solutions)
• Experience shaping or contributing to target state architecture within large scale payment systems
• Background in transforming or modernising payments infrastructure
• Familiarity with high volume, multi channel transaction environments
• Experience aligning technology decisions with long term commercial and operational goals

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 based in London or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To manage a specific product or portfolio and set the strategic direction.

Provide support to the bank's senior management team and manage product development risk across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for a specific product or portfolio, including the implementation of up to date methodologies and processes.
• Management of a specific product or portfolio, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of specific product or portfolio stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third party services.
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures for the specific product or portfolio.
• Management of specific product or portfolio risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank's specific product or portfolio and compliance functions.
• Monitoring the financial performance of the specific product or portfolio, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
• Conducting thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive.