# Hospitality & Leisure Relationship Manager

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Canary Wharf, 1 Churchill Place
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Lead a portfolio of Hospitality & Leisure clients, developing strategies to support resilience, investment, and profitable growth.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing strategic direction for relationship management

- Managing relationship management initiatives and overseeing colleagues

- Building relationships with stakeholders and identifying market opportunities

- Monitoring financial performance and conducting market research

- Originating development, refurbishment, acquisition, and sustainability solutions

- Building strategic client and acquisition plans

- Championing sector priorities and developing capability across the wider franchise

As a Director, you will be expected to:

- Manage a business function and contribute to strategic initiatives

- Lead a large team or sub-function and embed a performance culture

- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees

- Foster and guide compliance and ensure regulations are observed

The ideal candidate will have:

- Significant banking, advisory, investment, or operational experience across Hospitality & Leisure

- A track record of leading relationships with owners, operators, management teams, and investors

- Experience evaluating trading-led and asset-backed structures

- Strong external network across operators, advisers, investors, and industry bodies

Required skills include:

- Strong understanding of H&L operating metrics and seasonality

- Commercial ownership and portfolio management

- Strategic relationship leadership and confident engagement with founders, owners, and executives

- Sound credit and risk judgement

## Skills

### Required
- relationship management
- strategic planning
- financial analysis
- market research
- sector expertise

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