People Delivery and Execution Partner

The People Delivery and Execution Partner plays a crucial role in ensuring the seamless execution of people-focused initiatives and the delivery of exceptional HR services across the organization. This position is responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the effective implementation of people strategies, focusing on employee experience, talent management, and operational efficiency. The People Delivery and Execution Partner will work closely with HR leadership, business leaders, and other key stakeholders to ensure that people initiatives align with organizational goals and contribute to a high-performance culture. This role involves overseeing the smooth execution of people programs, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met, and providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.

To be successful as a People Delivery and Execution Partner, you should have experience with:

• The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and efficient execution
• Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail
• Adequate understanding of human resources processes, policies, and best practices

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior leadership, business leaders, and HR teams
• Excellent ability to influence and engage key stakeholders
• Knowledge of talent management, employee engagement, performance management, and workforce planning

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 Whippany, NJ

Purpose of the role

To partner with business to deliver HR projects and programmes in alignment with the delivery service catalogue. 

Accountabilities

• Collaboration across the function to deliver HR cyclical and non-cyclical activities such as: organisational design, talent reviews, D&I strategy, annual promotion processes, pay round implementation, succession planning, and other HR practices.
• Project manage defined cyclical and non-cyclical activity ensuring use of project artefacts and collateral.
• Monitoring and evaluation of project progress, including risks and mitigations and closing of project as appropriate.
• Manage project implementation reviews and ensuring improvements are identified and implemented in line with customer feedback.
• Manage key stakeholder relationships with both HR Business Partners and business leadership using business insights and knowledge to support delivery of key projects.

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.