Cloud, Resilience & Cybersecurity - Government Relations & Policy London, England
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Cloud, Resilience & Cybersecurity - Government Relations & Policy Manager
London
As a Barclays Cloud, Resilience & Cybersecurity - Government Relations & Policy Manager, you will be cultivating deep relationships across key external audiences including regulators, government officials, MPs, and trade associations. Through these relationships, you will lead an increase in familiarity and improved knowledge of the bank’s cloud, resilience, and cybersecurity activities. You will be engaging and leading on issues of importance key to the bank, by developing policy and responding to strategically important consultations.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
- Ensuring Barclays’ leverages its Group-wide resources appropriately to have the greatest possible influence on the formulation of cloud, resilience and cybersecurity policy
- Working with a broad range of internal stakeholders to formulate Barclays response to changes in, or formation of legislation via position papers, consultations and meetings
- Designing, documenting, and delivering strategic political stakeholder engagement plans for senior stakeholder to enhance political understanding its operations
- Leading communications, events, and public affairs efforts to build Barclays’ reputation amongst political stakeholders
- Coordinating and writing briefs for senior Barclays representatives ahead of key government meetings
- Producing internal communications, briefing materials to internal stakeholders on new legislative and regulatory proposals
- Assisting the firm’s interaction with relevant trade associations and industry bodies on UK policy issues
- Good knwoledge and experience of cloud, resilience and cybersecurity
- Experience of dealing with government regulatory stakeholders, possibly gained through working in a regulator, government or financial services areas of a professional services firm
- Experience of briefing senior stakeholders with the ability to build good internal and external relationships
- An understanding of the political and public policy landscape as it affects Barclays in the UK and the EU
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Excellent communication skills, spoken and written and an ability to explain complex policy issues and topics at a non-technical level
- Good coordination and organisation skills and ability to multi-task and turnaround requests quickly under pressure
- High levels of initiative and an ability to anticipate and solve problems
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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