Senior Product Taxonomy Project Manager – VP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Product Taxonomy Project Manager – VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will provide strategic leadership for one of the firm’s most critical Markets data projects. You will be accountable for driving the end‑to‑end delivery of the Product Taxonomy (PTAX) platform and leading the firmwide adoption agenda, enhancing data controls, reducing operational risk, and enabling scalable downstream consumption across Risk, Finance, and Regulatory Reporting. As a senior leader, you will work closely with executive stakeholders to translate strategy into measurable outcomes and long‑term value for Barclays.

To be successful as a Project Manager, you should have:

• Experience delivering or governing product master / reference data platforms, such as GoldenSource or equivalent strategic vendor solutions

• Demonstrated experience supporting large scale, multiyear data or reference data transformation programmes within a global financial services organization

• Demonstrated experience of executive stakeholder management, including steering committees, design authorities, and senior governance forums

• Validated ability to have responsibility for delivery across both Run the Bank and strategic change, ensuring operational stability while driving transformation outcomes

• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to set direction, influence without authority, and hold teams accountable for outcomes

Other highly valued skills include:

• Considerable knowledge of Markets products, product taxonomy, and trade lifecycle, with awareness of downstream consumers across Risk, Finance, Valuation, and Regulatory Reporting

• Experience in change and transformation leadership, including operating model evolution, adoption strategy, and benefits realization

• Ability to manage complex delivery dependencies across global technology and data teams, including onshore/offshore models

• Experience contributing to or supporting data governance, design authority, or regulatory remediation forums

• Deep understanding of risk, controls, and regulatory expectations associated with critical data assets and enterprise-wide adoption

This role is located in our Whippany, New Jersey office.

Minimum Salary: $155,000

Maximum Salary: $225,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions 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.