Workforce Transformation Organisation Simplification Project Manager - 9 Months Full Time Contract

The Workforce Transformation – Organisation Simplification Project Manager plays a pivotal role in driving a large‑scale, multi‑workstream programme that fundamentally reshapes how the bank is structured and how decisions are made. This is not a traditional project management position; it requires a transformation practitioner who brings structure, discipline, and consulting‑grade delivery to a tightly governed environment. You will lead coordinated planning and execution across organisation simplification workstreams, orchestrating design cycles, diagnostics, approvals, and stakeholder forums. A key part of the role involves translating executive intent into actionable deliverables, supporting detailed organisational design, and managing complex interdependencies. You will ensure robust governance through integrated plans, RAID management, and high‑quality executive materials, while engaging senior leaders across HR, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and business units to drive decisions and resolve issues. Working closely with OrgVue, HR data teams, and Workday specialists, you will also ensure data accuracy, scenario modelling, and seamless downstream impacts as the organisation evolves.

To be successful as a Workforce Transformation – Organisation Simplification Project Manager, you should have the following experience:

• Proven management consulting experience specialising in HR, people, or organisational change, demonstrating structured delivery, analytical problem‑solving, and effectiveness in complex, multidisciplinary environments.

• Project or programme management capability, with experience leading medium‑ or large‑scale transformation initiatives and bringing structure, dependency management, and clarity to ambiguous multi‑workstream programmes.

• Expertise in at least one organisational discipline, such as organisational design, organisational effectiveness, or change and communications.

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage senior leaders, navigate competing priorities, and facilitate decision‑making within complex governance frameworks.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience contributing to organisational simplification initiatives such as spans and layers reviews, role rationalisation, governance reduction, or decision‑making simplification.

• Prior delivery of workforce or organisation design programmes within large, complex organisations, with familiarity in operating model analysis and organisational structure assessment.

• Ability to work effectively with HRBPs, COO teams, Org Effectiveness, and external consulting partners, demonstrating good collaboration and influencing skills.

• Proficiency in tools and methodologies related to organisational design, such as spans and layers analysis, role taxonomy design, and modelling platforms like OrgVue or equivalent.

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 in either our London or Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus. 

Accountabilities

• Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
• Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
• Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
• Risk and Issue Management:  Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
• Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
• Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
• Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
• Change Management: Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.

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.