Strategy Analyst

Job description

Job Title: Lead Strategic Analyst

Location: London based

Grade: AVP

Competitive salary and excellent benefits

Barclaycard Business Solutions (BBS) is a portfolio of business to business to consumer (B2B2C) service providers in different stages of their life cycle. These include merchant acquiring/payment acceptance, commercial cards and payments, digital consumer payments and Point-of-sale finance (POS loans).

As a Lead Strategy Analyst, you'll perform in-depth analysis of specific portfolios and their constituent parts to support business strategy, in particular: marketing & channel analysis, pricing analysis, risk/reward analysis, propensity & response modelling or other types of segmentation.

By acting as an ambassador for rigorous analytical techniques across BBS, you'll need to be able to import best practices in analytical techniques from the wider Barclaycard team in order to build scenario and functionalities on key strategic projects. As a result of this analysis, the role holder will present proposals for new marketing, channels or pricing strategies to a monthly Executive Committee through the appropriate process/forum.

Working in a dynamic and fast paced analytical environment, you'll be proactive and enthusiastic, with high energy and strong ability to manage stakeholders, virtual teams and make commercial decisions. This individual needs to be able to identify solutions and package ideas and results in a logical and compelling way for both technical and non-technical audiences.

What you'll need?

• Extensive experience of data analysis, and value-based customer management

• Expertise within the fields of data mining, analytical expertise and modelling

• In-depth Knowledge of Risk tools, e.g. SAS, PC SAS and BIW

• Experience of building and using large data sets from various sources

• Demonstrable track record in decision analytics, quantitative methods, and data strategy being applied with positive business outcomes

• Strong influencing and communication skills - be able to communicate complex data and financial results to a wide audience

• Excellent presentation skills (both oral and written)

Careers To Be Passionate About

At Barclaycard, we live and breathe innovation. We're not standing still and are always searching for new ways to challenge traditional ways of making payments simpler for our customers. Working together, we're looking forward to a vibrant and exciting future.

Barclaycard

From Europe to the USA, and from Africa and the Middle East to the Far East, over 23 million Barclaycard customers enjoy the benefits of our innovative approach to business. Dedicated to success, our strong international growth has laid the foundation for an exciting future where we truly drive solutions that make payments simpler for all of our customers.

What you'll get in return?

If you're ready to enjoy a highly competitive salary and a great non-contributory pension package, then look no further than Barclaycard. Private healthcare and above average holiday entitlements are standard, and we'll offer you training and development opportunities that support and complement your career aspirations.

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