Lead Pricing Data Analyst
As a Lead Pricing Data Analyst within the Data & Analytics team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the pricing strategy for Barclaycard Payments. You’ll combine data-driven insight with commercial understanding to support pricing decisions that drive growth, profitability, and customer value. Working closely with stakeholders across Product, Finance, Commercial, and Analytics teams, you’ll help develop and refine pricing approaches that ensure the business remains competitive in a dynamic payments market.
You’ll be responsible for the creation, development, and maintenance of pricing models, using deep analysis of customer behaviour, transaction trends, and competitor activity to generate actionable insights. You’ll lead performance reviews of pricing initiatives, monitoring outcomes and identifying opportunities for optimisation. With strong stakeholder engagement skills, you’ll also oversee model governance activities, ensuring pricing methodologies are robust, well-controlled, and clearly documented. This is a highly visible role where your ability to translate complex data into meaningful commercial recommendations will directly influence the success of Barclaycard Payments’ pricing strategy.
Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and corporate clients.
Responsibilities
- Identify and extract relevant data from various internal and external sources.
- Perform sensitivity analysis and scenario planning.
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of existing models.
- Develop and implement data quality control procedures.
- Build and validate quantitative models to support decision-making across different business areas.
Qualifications
- Degree in a relevant analytical discipline, such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Data Science, or a related field.
- Experience working with large and complex datasets, including proficiency in tools such as SQL, Python, and Cloud (AWS) to support data analysis and modelling.
- Experience developing data visualisations and delivering commercial insights, with the ability to influence decision-making through clear, data-driven recommendations and stakeholder engagement.
Other Highly Valued Skills
- Experience in pricing, margin management, and profitability analysis, with the ability to assess performance and support commercial decision-making.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and communicate insights clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead virtual capabilities across Data & Analytics to deliver combined outcomes that support Pricing.
Purpose of the Role
To extract meaningful insights from complex data sets, developing robust decision models, and presenting actionable recommendations to stakeholders across the departments.
Values & Mindset
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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