Workplace Events Producer

Join Barclays as aWorkplace Event Producer,where you will playa central rolein shaping, delivering, and operationalising next generationevent spaces across two of the most significant construction and workplace transformation projects in our global portfolio. You will support the design and launch of innovativeWorkplaceEvents, ensuring flawless deliveryand abest in classexperience for senior leaders. This role sits within the Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES) team and involves close collaboration withtheRich Media,Workplace Design, and event facingteams.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology capabilities, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role

To manage the layout and utilisation of workplace services and drive the technological innovation of workplace tools to improve the employee experience. 

Accountabilities

• Development of employee experience strategies through surveys and engagement initiatives to enhance engagement, satisfaction, and retention.
• Development of initiatives to improve colleague experience, productivity, well-being, engagement, and workplace utilisation underpinned by technology solutions.
• Identification of innovative workplace tools to drive continuous improvement, productivity and collaboration, and support the implementation process.
• Development and maintenance of business intelligence data including workforce analytics, industry benchmarking, performance metrics, employee satisfaction and space utilisation, and provide recommendations for improvement.

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.