Date live:18/08/2025
Business Area:GTB SLT
Area of Expertise:Corporate Affairs
Contract:Permanent
Reference Code:JR-0000065761
Join us as a Communications Manager within the Transformation Management Office (TMO) for Global Transaction Banking (GTB), where you will be responsible for the strategic creation and distribution of internal communications. In this role you’ll be required to work effectively front to back (Business, Technology, Operations) across the organisation to ensure that key messages and initiatives are effectively distilled to colleagues and key stakeholders. You’ll be accountable for leading the communications strategy supporting Transformation initiatives.
The Transformation Office is part of Global Transaction Banking (GTB) and working in partnership closely with Business, Tech, and Operations. The team is integral to deliver Barclays ambition to transform our ways of business value creation. The division supports clients with an annual turnover of over £6.5 million across large local companies, financial institutions and multinationals in UK and International markets. All our clients, regardless of size or complexity, want a financial partner they can trust. And, in line with Barclays common purpose, they also expect us to have the people and capabilities to help them achieve their ambitions in the right way.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Previous experience of working in a Corporate Communications role
• Excellent writing skills, translating technical messages into engaging stories
• Content creation, copywriting, editing and related skills proficient in Microsoft 365 Applications and Tooling: SharePoint Online and integrated solutions (e.g. MS Teams, Viva Engage); Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word)
• Demonstrate Agile working methods.
• Strong networking skills and the ability to make meaningful connections with key stakeholders
• Experience of promoting and driving colleague accessibility
• Understanding of accessibility and awareness of requirements
• Ability to work at pace and execute within tight deadline
• Excellent planning and organisational skills

Desired Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• An understanding of Global Transaction Banking, and the products/services on offer

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in London.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Leadership communication, using detailed, systematic insight research to help senior leaders understand employee sentiment, and empower them to communicate empathetically with their people.
• Business strategy alignment, building belief in the strategy of the organisation, and the progress being made, with a strong focus on the impact employees have on the client experience.
• Culture and employee proposition communication, designing and implementing communication interventions that influence individual behaviour to create a culture built on the Barclays Mindset; demonstrate why the organisation is a great place to work.
• Change delivery, creating communication interventions that build employee commitment and capability through organisational change.
• Crisis and issues management, working closely with the senior team as part of the management response, focused on the role of employees in engaging clients.
• Capability building, leading and developing a high-performing team, building individual skills and team capabilities.

To build strong and effective partnerships with the senior leadership of the organisation, advising on how to engage and influence employees to achieve the business’s goals, through an insight-based employee communications strategy, backed up with outstanding execution capability.