Change Delivery Manager – Vice President

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we shape it. Embark on a transformative journey as Change Delivery Manager – Vice President, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our Corporate Data Services function. Your role is to act as a bastion for the department on the delivery of a new operating model for the Change Delivery in our Transaction Cycle, embedding and supporting the delivery of a new way of working and culture into the organisation, to increase a more effective and productive approach to the management of Change, and being the supporting interface for Change Management and where required, participation in and secretariat services for key Governance meetings to ensure meetings are effective and resulting action closure is effectively coordinated. Additionally, your role requires effective stakeholder management, leadership, and decision-making to support business strategy and risk management. 

To be successful as a Change Delivery Manager – Vice President, you should have experience with: 

• Technology Transformation – including experience of end-to-end delivery and integration of technology solutions at a global scale, helping business areas to achieve their strategic objectives by ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with risk and control frameworks. 
• Stakeholder Management – with experience in managing relationships with stakeholders, particularly within Control Functions and across Technology.
• Written and Verbal Communication – with the ability to explain complex concepts to various levels of the organisation, including technical and non-technical audiences, senior management, project teams, and external partners.
• Change Management – including requirements gathering, business readiness, management of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, etc.
• Process Management – experience in conducting ‘as is’ process reviews and undertaking process reengineering to simplify and improve processes.
• Vendor Management – including managing and partnering with third party technology vendors
• Relevant experience at a Global financial organization. 
• Strong track record in Governance and Compliance .

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Decision making with active critical thinking.
• Any graduate/postgraduate with experience working in Banking institutions.

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.

The location for this role is our Pune, India 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.

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.