Portfolio Director and Lean Project Manager

Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Date live: Oct. 03, 2024

Business Area: Risk Finance and Treasury

Area of Expertise: Change

Reference Code: JR-0000018356

Contract: Permanent

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The role is meant to drive the programs across the Counterparty Credit Risk , Capital and XVA Technology for the Corporate Investment Bank portfolio sitting with the Global Functions and Enterprise Data (GFED) unit of the Barclays Technology.
Ownership of the end to end change delivery lifecycle for a c. £30m per annum change portfolio with overall responsibility for the establishment, execution, and delivery of the committed portfolio of change and business benefits. This includes multiple firm wide programs spanning Regulatory changes for Credit Risk across all the different global regulators , Risk and Control, Technology Modernisation Investment , Markets new business initiatives & revenue generating projects and Business Transformation/Optimisation.
Managing the Portfolio financials , budgets and resource demand/supply and the program governance in line with the firm’s COO technology governance approach
Lead the globally distributed team (US , India , UK , Czech Republic) of change professionals including Project/Programme Managers, PMOs and Scrum Masters including ensuring their efficacy, performance, growth, and development.
Partner with stakeholders across Risk, Quantitative Analytics, Technology, COO, and Markets Front Office to embed agile ways of delivery (specifically the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe) across the CCR, Capital and XVA organisation. Specifically the implementation of Agile Release Trains, Feature Teams and core ceremonies including Scums, Scrum of Scrums, Sprints, Programme Increment Planning and Agile delivery metrics.
Ownership of critical CCR, Capital and XVA technology processes including New Demand Management, Prioritisation, Release Management, Environment Allocation, Portfolio Planning and Portfolio Governance ensuring that the organisation runs efficiently and in control.
Responsible for ensuring that the overall change portfolio is aligned to the organisation’s overarching goals of becoming Simpler, Better, and More Balanced whilst also aligning to Business and Function Specific targets and objectives. In part achieving this through partnership with Product Management and Business/Function Stakeholders to define Visions, Objectives, and Key Results
Helping to develop the global team ~500 + resources by partnering with the central GFED leadership to roll out location strategy , talent attraction , retention and development initiatives , necessary skill upliftment identification and training etc.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Director Expectations

To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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