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PMO Lead

London, United Kingdom

Date live: Jun. 27, 2024

Business Area: Barclays International

Area of Expertise: Change & Transformation

Reference Code: 90391883

Contract: Permanent

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PMO Lead
London

As a Barclays PMO Lead, you will be joining the Corporate Banking division as part of a multiyear programme undertaking a large and complex business transaction. The Programme will be structured with workstreams operating across the Barclays Group, engaged at a programme level by aligned central delivery managers and a central core Programme Management Office. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a skilled PMO team of high-quality performers with a proven track record in large and complex transition/transformation change programmes.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
• Developing, implementing & embedding PMO standards across the programme phases, maintaining and managing initiative documentation and facilitating key governance fora
• Supporting the production of Portfolio level forum papers, agendas, and various reports and taking and managing actions and minutes at Portfolio level governance meetings
• Assisting with ensuring workstreams and projects have the relevant documentation, plans and RAIDs in place, and maintained in a timely manner at the right quality
• Being responsible for determining, monitoring and managing workforce and financial requirements, drawing insights from available information to inform daily delivery
• Assessing risk, including the tracking of thematic issues, early identification, and management of RAIDs; and completing a Delivered Risk Assessment (DRA)
• Tracking outcomes, ensuring that planned outputs deliver the agreed outcomes and remain relevant; through provision of MI and estimating, scheduling and planning activity
• Supporting the development and managing integrated programme plans based on source data with maintaining overall plan structure and integrity
• Developing and managing a centralised Change control process, ensuring the business case is updated and managed through appropriate governance

What we’re looking for:
• Demonstrable PMO experience, working on business driven initiatives with cross functional delivery impact with experience of delivering PMO services across a portfolio of projects
• Excellent communication, verbal and written, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work with and present to senior stakeholders
• Excellent PC skills, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word, MS Project and Visio, ability to master and navigate new subject domains quickly
• Experience collating cross workstream plans and maintaining central integrated plans with execution tracking and analysis

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Ability to work across multiple sub-teams, divisions and geography, with excellent team working skills, including working effectively within a remote team
• Ability to identify ‘hidden’ delivery issues and proactively escalate items for resolution to reduce programme execution risk
• Broad knowledge of Group operating structure, Functions, and their purpose/scope (Operations/Technology/ Treasury/Risk/HR/etc)
• Previous experience of Barclays strategic change programmes

Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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