Credit Acquisition Strategies – Vice President

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

4d•Onsite

About The Position

At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing credit acquisition strategies while interfacing with cross‑functional partners including Legal, Compliance, Finance, Second Line teams, and segment partners. You will lead complex analytical work, transforming large datasets into actionable insights that drive credit card growth and risk optimization. You will bring deep experience in credit card business strategy, particularly acquisitions, along with strong technical fluency in analytical tools.

Requirements

Prior experience in credit card strategy experience, ideally in acquisition credit strategies
Proficiency in SAS, SQL, and Python, with strong technical and statistical capabilities
Ability to process and interpret large, complex datasets

Nice To Haves

Exposure to partnership cards is preferred
Ability to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups
Strong presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
High attention to detail with the ability to work independently
Adaptability and comfort working in a fast‑paced, evolving environment

Responsibilities

Identification, collection, extraction of data from various sources, including internal and external sources.
Performing data cleaning, wrangling, and transformation to ensure its quality and suitability for analysis.
Development and maintenance of efficient data pipelines for automated data acquisition and processing.
Design and conduct of statistical and machine learning models to analyse patterns, trends, and relationships in the data.
Development and implementation of predictive models to forecast future outcomes and identify potential risks and opportunities.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to seek out opportunities to add value from data through Data Science.
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.
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.