Business Agility Partner

As a Business Agility Partner, you'll work within our Transformation team to provide critical agile coaching and support across Enterprise Programmes. You'll play an important part in the adoption of BUK ways of working, providing key thought leadership and provision of technique support to teams across BUK Customer Journey Labs, including the accelerated customer journey transformation.

Transformation will make sure we have an increasingly clear and aligned view on how the various changes that we are delivering on behalf of our customers and clients will combine to create a new business model, whilst continuing to deliver on our commitments to our shareholder. The team will ensure that we keep focused on the right outcomes, at the right time, and on making sure we are as coordinated as we must be by embedding agile ways of working to reduce wastage whilst driving better outcomes.

Within this role, the successful candidate will act as a role model to drive change and application of core skills, understand team performance and lead workshops on adoption of new ways of working, including agile values, principles, practices, and frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. You'll work to support the implementation of the end-to-end Execution Method standards and practices, and ensure alignment and consistency across BUK Transformation. You will be responsible for the creation and execution of a project control framework encompassing resource, financial control and governance/compliance management either on an individual project/programme basis or as part of a business wide remit. You'll have the ability to determine or influence strategy and approach required to deliver against the outcomes of our transformational change initiatives.

To be successful within this role, you'll need to have experience in leading the development and implementation of scaled Agile methodology, and in managing agile teams and projects. You will be confident in applying agile frameworks and methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe. You will have the ability to operate, communicate and challenge for the benefit of the business via exceptional presentation and comprehensive communication skills across all mediums and at all levels of the bank. Past experience defining and implementing Agile operating models across cross-functional teams within a complex, fast changing environment, working both internally and externally. Have experience working with non-agile teams and translating industry standard Agile methodologies to business stakeholders. Confident and strong ability to influence key senior leaders and Stakeholders through excellent written/verbal communication and presentations skills and ability to present and interpret data. Experience in Lean Portfolio Management practices and driving planning and prioritisation processes. Strong organizational and prioritization skills, detail-oriented, with excellent interpersonal and influencing skills. Flexibility required, able to prioritise, flawlessly execute at speed; able to work at pace to fast moving demands of the business. Evidence of successful people leadership at a mid-management level within a large organisation in a cross matrixed environment. Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum Management principles & tools e.g. Jira, Jira Align. Agile certifications (e.g. SAFe) preferred.

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.