Date live: 08/19/2026

Business Area: BX COO Shared Services

Area of Expertise: Corporate Affairs

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-(phone hidden)

Join us as an "Associate Vice President - Corporate Communications" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

To be successful in the role, you should have experience with:

- Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Public Relations or related background.
- Experience in corporate communications, employee communications, employer branding or marketing.
- Strong writing, editing and storytelling capabilities.
- Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and leaders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
- Has excellent judgement and knows when to challenge constructively.
- Is proactive, resourceful and comfortable working independently.
- Builds robust relationships and earns trust quickly.
- Can simplify complex topics into clear and compelling stories.
- Brings energy, positivity and a solutions-oriented mindset.
- Is equally comfortable drafting a leadership speech, managing an event, creating a social media campaign or responding to a business request at pace.
- Takes ownership and follows through on commitments.

Desirable skills / good to have:

- Exceptional verbal and written communication.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Creative thinking combined with strong execution discipline.
- Project and event management experience.
- Digital and social media awareness.
- Attention to detail with a commitment to quality.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role,



such as corporate communications, as well as job-specific skillsets.

Location - Pune.

Purpose of the role

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.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding

📌 Associate Vice President - Corporate Communications (Pune)
🏢 Barclays
📍 Pune