Retail Capital Projects and Value Manager

Join us as a Retail Capital Projects and Value Manager. In this role, you will join the Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES) Retail team, where you will play a key role in delivering capital projects and driving value across the retail estate. You will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered to the highest standards, while maximising value through effective management of supply chains and commercial performance.

You will lead the end to end delivery of retail capital projects, covering both pre construction and delivery phases, working closely with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality and safety standards. Acting as a central interface across the business, you will collaborate with teams across Business Units, Technology, Finance, and Procurement to align delivery with strategic objectives.

The role combines project delivery, commercial oversight, and stakeholder management, requiring the ability to manage complex programmes, drive performance from suppliers, and ensure robust governance, risk management, and reporting across all project activity.

To be successful as a Retail Capital Projects and Value Manager, you should have:

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across internal teams and third party suppliers.
• Excellent organisation and communication skills, managing multiple projects and priorities effectively, being able to make effective decisions.
• Strong commercial awareness, with experience managing supplier performance and driving value across contracts.
• Experience managing multi site or complex capital investment programmes, ensuring delivery against time, cost, quality, and safety objectives.
• Demonstrable utilisation of AI, processes and automation.
• Innovative thinking to drive efficiencies in cost and programme timelines.

Some other highly valued skills and experience include:

• Strategic thinking, with the ability to align capital investment plans to business strategy.
• Experience in supplier relationship management, including performance monitoring and KPI assurance.
• Awareness of industry trends and regulatory changes, with the ability to apply these to project delivery and value optimisation.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve delivery through automation, AI, or process efficiencies.
• A proactive, client focused approach, ensuring consistently excellent outcomes for both customers and colleagues.

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 will be based out of our Northampton office.

Purpose of the role

To manage and develop capital project proposals and operations aligned to the needs of the bank. 

Accountabilities

• Management, development and execution of building, real estate and physical asset security projects and proposals, including workspace, engineering, and facility upgrades.
• Management of planning, design, procurement, resourcing, reporting and construction processes to ensure deliverables are completed on time and within budget.
• Identification of potential risks and issues associated to capital projects and development of risk management strategies to mitigate them by monitoring risk exposure and taking corrective action.
• Management of project budget for real estate and physical security projects by tracking expenses, forecasting costs and identifying cost saving opportunities.
• Management of stakeholder relations including project sponsors, vendors, regulatory agencies, and the facilities management team to align capital project operations with the bank's objectives.
• Identification of opportunities to improve the delivery processes for capital projects and implement best practices to enhance project performance.
• Execution of capital projects that meet agreed quality standards, and are compliant with relevant laws, regulation, and policies.

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.