PPCR Technology Senior Project Manager

Join us at Barclays as a Senior Project Manager within Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility (PPCR) Technology, leading the delivery of complex, business-critical technology and transformation programmes. We are looking for a confident and influential delivery leader who thrives in ambiguity, can navigate complexity, and has a proven track record of driving large-scale change across technology, operations and business teams.

This role requires someone who can bring structure and momentum to fast-paced programmes, manage a broad range of stakeholders, oversee change governance and effective Risk Management, activities, and successfully deliver strategic transformation across PPCR initiatives often involving multiple business units and third-party vendors.

To be successful as a Senior Project Manager, you must have the following essential skills:

• Complex Programme Delivery – Proven ability to lead complex, multi-region programmes with diverse resource models and evolving requirements, bringing structure, clarity and momentum in highly ambiguous environments to ensure successful delivery.

• Strategic Stakeholder Management: Ability to align diverse stakeholders across Group Brand & Marketing, Front Office, Technology, Operations and multiple Business Units, driving decisions and maintaining momentum in a complex environment.

• Change Management, Governance, Risk & Reporting: Providing clear, concise updates to senior stakeholders, managing RAIDs, driving governance forums and ensuring decisions, risks and issues are understood and acted upon.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Salesforce Platform Knowledge: Understanding of Salesforce capabilities, CRM architectures to effectively challenge solution design decisions, assess delivery trade-offs and drive informed programme outcomes across the DMS ecosystem.

• Event Management Process Domain knowledge: Understanding of event and hospitality management processes, including nominations, invitations, registrations, attendance tracking, compliance controls and post-event analysis, to ensure solutions align to business objectives, support future operating models and deliver maximum value to stakeholders.

• Change Management & Business Readiness: Experience delivering large-scale process and technology change, embedding new ways of working, defining target operating model, driving stakeholder buy-in and ensuring Business is ready to transition to and adopt the future operating model and associated controls.

• Data & Insight Driven Delivery: Appreciation of data quality, reporting and dashboarding, with the ability to identify opportunities to leverage GenAI and emerging technologies to enhance user experiences, automate processes, improve decision-making and unlock greater value from existing tech stack.

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role is based in Glasgow.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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.