Programme Director - 2 Roles

Role: Role: Programme Director - 2 positions

Grade: Director

Location: Radbroke OR Northampton

Barclays Overview

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment 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. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working

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.

About Corporate & Investment Bank SI Planning & Execution

Corporate & Investment Bank SI Planning & Execution is a highly skilled and diverse team responsible for identifying, setting objectives for and managing delivery of projects across the Corporate & Investment Bank.We collaborate with most Groups within Barclays and have teams based in London, New York, Prague, Glasgow, Knutsford, Northampton and Whippany.

We are on a journey to plan and deliver the strategic change which creates the Corporate & Investment Bank of tomorrow. Our team of motivated change practitioners know how to make change happen and are empowered to:

-Align investment in change to customer and shareholder objectives

-Drive ambitious delivery plans to achieve business outcomes

-Protect our customers and the firm by anticipating and reducing risk

-Creating a team that attracts and retains remarkable people in an inclusive environment

As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with industry leaders, can participate in how they make decisions and then be given the trust to turn those decisions into action - to make them come to life.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Overall purpose of role

The Programme Manager is fundamental to our mission to create an environment of effective delivery and has a broad range of business and technical skills to create a high level outcome for the stakeholder.The ideal Programme Manager is someone who can:

-Oversee delivery of multiple projects/workstream packages, ensuring they achieve their outcomes to plan

-Manage business case and programme governance

-Ensure that programmes deliver agreed outcomes

-Monitors and proactively manages financials, RAIDs and resource requirements

-Partners the Accountable Executive

-Delivers in line with Policies and Standards

Key Accountabilities

-E2E planning and delivery management to agreed plan

-Business case management

-Change management

-Governance and reporting

-Outcomes and benefits management

-Risk and issue management

-Programme Resource plan and capacity management

-Stakeholder and communications management

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

-Stakeholders reach is mainly internal and spans across multiple internal areas, potentially firmwide

-Great interpersonal skills are fundamental to building relationships

-The role will also be required to lead working teams of varying levels within the organisation and that do not report into the role

Decision-making and Problem Solving

The role will involve the set up of programmes and/or underlying workstreams from initiation, through to ownership of planning and execution/delivery.This will require elements of advanced problem solving, evaluative judgement and analysis.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Person Specification

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

-Ability to effectively communicate with, influence and manage stakeholders at all levels, taking account of their levels of influence and interest.

-Ability to identify, define, evaluate, plan, track and realise the outcomes and benefits of change initiatives. This includes undertaking a realistic assessment of what is achievable by when.

-Ability to identify and monitor risks and issues, to plan and implement appropriate responses for mitigation or resolution, including escalations and early resolution

-Capacity to inspire, coach and empower others to deliver on a shared vision and outcomes for transformational change: setting an example and building strong relationships.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

-Experience of delivering complex change

-Experience of delivering F2B transformational change (client, business, operations, technology – with medium to high degree of technology change)

-Ability of delivering transformation change in Corporate, Cards and Payments

-Experience of delivering change using agile techniques

-Knowledge of Barclays standard change delivery processes

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect

We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity

We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service

We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship

We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower

Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge

Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive

Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.