Strategy Analyst – New/Alternate Channels

Strategic Analyst – Alternate/Digital Channels
 
As a Strategy Analyst, you will be working with Strategic Analytics for New Customer Acquisitions within the UK Cards business. You will focus on the design, analysis and specification of projects/initiatives to improve our new customer flow, as well as product profitability. We  believe in team working as way to deliver optimal solutions. As a result you’ll work with colleagues from different teams, from Commercial to Finance and Risk to Marketing to make decisions that are best for both our Customers and our Company. You will focus on analysis for New/Alternate Channels.
 
About us:
We’re looking for an individual to help us run the UK’s largest and most successful consumer card and payments business.
This role is part of the Strategic Analytics team that shapes UK Cards strategy. With a portfolio in excess of £16bn and well over a million new applicants each year, information and analytics is critical to our decision making, and this role will require strong conceptual thinking and analytical ability.
 
As a Strategic Analyst, your main responsibilities will involve:
•  Transforming high-level requests into focussed and specific analysis to support strategies to increase volume and/or profitability of new accounts. 
•  Assisting in the design of test campaigns, ensuring the ability to have measurable and valid results
• Performing short and long term analysis based on program test performance to support optimal marketing program strategy and recommendations
•  Extending/modifying analysis based on observations/ knowledge of data and limitations, and implications of results.
 
As a Strategic Analyst, your skills and qualifications will include:
•  Previous Analytical and Strategy experience in any field and Financial services / Retail Credit Cards experience would be beneficial but not essential
•  Proven Excel skills, familiarity with PowerPoint, and a solid working knowledge of data manipulation (eg. via SQL) and preferably SAS platforms –  Hadoop / Machine Learning experience would be beneficial
•  Excellent mathematical skills, particularly in your ability to break complex problems into simple steps and solve them
•  Strong communication skills: articulate with the ability to operate and present to Senior Management and key stakeholders, as well as colleagues and support functions
•  Proven experience using statistical techniques – regression, hypothesis testing, data mining, reject inference, experimental design, etc
 
The Benefits:  
Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our people. That’s why at Barclays you’ll receive a range of benefits including a competitive salary, flexible hours and all the tools, technology and support to help you become the very best you can be.
 
Our Culture:
Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.
 
Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
 
Diversity:
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.
 
Ready to apply?
There are up to five stages to our application process:
1. Application: On your application we’ll ask for information like your contact details, education and work experience. You’ll also be required to upload a CV, so it’s a good idea to have it ready.
2. Online Assessment: We’ll then ask you to complete an online assessment exercise which we will send to you via email. Our assessments are carefully designed to measure the skills and capabilities necessary to be successful in our roles, but they’ll also provide you with some insight into what our roles entail.
3. Application Review: We will review your application along with your responses to the online assessment exercise. Depending on the type of role you are applying for, we may contact you to arrange a brief telephone interview to discuss your experience in more detail.
4. Interview: If your application is progressed, we’ll invite you to attend a face-to-face interview. We want you to be free to choose an interview time that suits you, so we’ll provide some options and ask you to select your preferred timeslot.
5. Outcome: We will keep you updated throughout the process. If you attend an interview, we’ll be in touch within five working days of all interviews being completed to advise you of the outcome.
 
Visit our website for tips and advice on each stage www.jobs.barclays.co.uk/advice or click below to apply now.
 
We encourage applicants to apply as early as possible in the recruitment period. Barclays recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert during the recruitment process.
 
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