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Date live: Mar. 19, 2025

Business Area: Markets Pre Trade

Area of Expertise: Change

Reference Code: JR-0000036492

Contract: Permanent

Make a real difference every day in the lives and careers of 3,500+ colleagues in a role that offers you great visibility to senior leadership.  Join us as an Employee Value Proposition (EVP), Global Markets Pre Trade AVP at Barclays, where you will be part of a small team that reports directly to the co-CIO of Markets Pre Trade. The EVP team is focused on building a strong, engaged and collaborative team across Markets Pre Trade, fostering a culture of connected relationships in which diversity, inclusion, recognition, learning and innovation thrive. 

In this role, you will be instrumental in implementing our EVP framework, helping to influence and deliver our strategic priorities and initiatives. You will be responsible for: Tracking the status of projects and tasks, and ensuring successful and timely completion, escalating when necessary; Communicating with stakeholders and colleagues across geography and seniority, both verbally and in written form; Sourcing, analyzing and modeling data; Creating (and having the opportunity to present) clear and informative content; and, Helping to continuously improve our EVP offering to colleagues, making Markets Pre Trade a great place to work.

To be successful as an Employee Value Proposition (EVP), Global Markets Pre-Trade AVP, you must be:

•  Passionate about helping colleagues flourish in their professional career, and about making Barclays a simpler and better place to work

•  Organized, self directed and detail oriented, and will ensure that tasks get done and deadlines are met without needing to be chased 

•  Able to communicate clearly and effectively via written and verbal communication

Some other highly-valued skills:

•  You are comfortable engaging with and influencing colleagues at all levels of seniority, and escalating when appropriate to your manager and other relevant colleagues

•  You enjoy and are able to effectively analyze, model and present data

•  You take pride and pleasure in creating engaging presentations, spreadsheets and SharePoint content

This role will be based out of our Prague 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

  • To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
  • Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
  • 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
  • Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
  • Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
  • Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
  • Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
  • Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
  • Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

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