Senior Talent Excellence Project Manager - 12 Months Full Time Contract

As a Senior Talent Excellence Project Manager, you will play a key part in enhancing how we deliver talent management across Barclays, with a focus on elevating the impact of our Talent Excellence programme. You will take the lead on the workstream development, ensuring the successful delivery of strategic talent initiatives that align with our organisational goals. You’ll be responsible for managing day-to-day activities, timelines, and plans keeping the programme on track and ensuring key milestones are delivered. You will lead the RFP (Request for Proposal) process, working closely with vendors and internal stakeholders to identify and implement the most effective solutions.

You will engage regularly with senior stakeholders, including members of the Group Executive Committee, to ensure alignment and secure buy-in. In this role, you will support the preparation of high-quality content and visuals for stakeholder meetings. You’ll be expected to confidently draft and produce materials.

You’ll also represent the workstream in meetings, delegate tasks effectively, and operate within a matrix management structure as part of the wider programme team. Your ability to collaborate, adapt, and communicate clearly will be essential to your success.

To be successful as a Senior Talent Excellence Project Manager you should have experience with:

• Proven track record of managing complex projects from design through to delivery, with considerable planning, coordination, and execution skills.

• Confident working with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, building relationships and influencing outcomes through clear communication and collaboration.

• Ability to interpret data and insights to inform decisions, measure impact, and continuously improve talent initiatives.

• Solid understanding of core HR disciplines, particularly in areas such as performance management, succession planning, learning, and workforce development is desired.

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 located from our Glasgow or London office.

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.