Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager at Barclays

Join us as a Portfolio Manager at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Experience Required

• Able to manage a team to support sub pod leads with governance and portfolio management, demonstrating exceptional leadership and coordination skills to ensure seamless execution of all governance and portfolio management activities.
• Key understanding of change governance processes and managing risks and issues, possessing a comprehensive grasp of these processes to effectively identify, manage, and mitigate potential risks and issues, ensuring smooth transitions and continuity.
• Attention to detail, maintaining an unwavering focus on precision and accuracy in all tasks, thereby upholding the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Additional Valued Skills

• Knowledge of the bank’s processes, bringing a deep familiarity with the workflows, which facilitates efficient task management and enhances overall productivity.
• Understanding of Agile ways of working, showcasing proficiency in Agile methodologies that promote flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement, enabling effective adaptation to dynamic environments.
• Organised, demonstrating exceptional organisational skills that allow for the efficient juggling of multiple tasks and priorities, ensuring timely completion of projects and adherence to deadlines.

Assessment Criteria

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
• Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.
• Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of reports on project status to senior management.
• Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives and that project risks assumptions, issues, and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.
• Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.