Portfolio Manager
Knutsford, United Kingdom; Northampton, United Kingdom; Glasgow, United Kingdom
Knutsford, England
Sign up to our Talent PoolDate live: Sep. 18, 2024
Business Area: Customer Digital and Data
Area of Expertise: Change
Reference Code: JR-0000008705
Contract: Permanent
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To be successful as a Portfolio Manager you should have experience with:
- Able to manage a team to support sub pod leads with governance and portfolio management, demonstrating exceptional leadership and coordination skills to ensure seamless execution of all governance and portfolio management activities
- Key understanding of change governance processes and managing risks and issues, possessing a comprehensive grasp of these processes to effectively identify, manage, and mitigate potential risks and issues, ensuring smooth transitions and continuity
- Attention to detail, maintaining an unwavering focus on precision and accuracy in all tasks, thereby upholding the highest standards of quality and reliability
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Knowledge of the bank’s processes, bringing a deep familiarity with the workflows,which facilitates efficient task management and enhances overall productivity
- Understanding of Agile ways of working, showcasing proficiency in Agile methodologies that promote flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement, enabling effective adaptation to dynamic environments
- Organised, demonstrating exceptional organisational skills that allow for the efficient juggling of multiple tasks and priorities, ensuring timely completion of projects and adherence to deadlines
You may be assessed on 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.
The location of this role is located in Knutsford, United Kingdom
Purpose of the role
To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.
Accountabilities
- Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
- Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects. .
- Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of report on project status to senior management.
- Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
- Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively.
- Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects. .
- Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.
Vice President Expectations
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
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.
More about working at Barclays
Barclays offices across the UK are designed to be places where our people can come together to do their best work, surrounded by excellent facilities for both work and leisure. These are warm, diverse, supportive communities in some of the UK’s best locations, where everyone can thrive.
Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.
We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.
Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.
Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.
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The Barclays Way
This is the spirit of Barclays. It’s why we exist, what we believe and how we behave. But most importantly, it’s how we make decisions, take action and get things done.
Purpose
Working together for a better financial future.
Values
We believe great talent RISES. It acts with Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Mindset
We discover our full potential through our desire to Empower, Challenge and Drive each other.
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