AVP-Portfolio Planning & Execution

Barclays•Wilmington, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The USCB Value Management Office (VMO) is seeking an experienced person to support strategic investment planning, intake management, portfolio governance, and cross-functional prioritization across a multi-faceted technology and business portfolio. This role will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, finance partners, and delivery organizations to enable informed investment strategies and effective portfolio execution. The purpose of the role is to support the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organization's strategic objectives. The role involves advising and influencing decision making, contributing to policy development, and taking responsibility for operational effectiveness. It requires collaboration with other functions/business divisions and may involve leading a team performing complex tasks. For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members, identify the need for other specializations, and identify new directions for assignments or projects. The role also involves consulting on complex issues, identifying ways to mitigate risk, developing new policies/procedures, taking ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls, performing work that requires understanding of how areas coordinate, collaborating with other areas for business-aligned support, engaging in complex analysis of data, communicating complex information, and influencing or convincing stakeholders to achieve outcomes. All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Requirements

Experience with Lean Portfolio Management, Agile, SAFe, or Program Increment planning environment
Experience with portfolio governance, investment prioritization, business case readiness, and funding approval processes
Facilitation and communication skills, including the ability to support prioritization, trade-off, risk, dependency, and capacity discussions
Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders through data-driven recommendations and clear articulation of trade-offs
Evaluative capability to track portfolio demand, investment status, sizing outcomes, risks, dependencies, and planning metrics
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

Nice To Haves

Comfort using collaboration, planning, and workflow management tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar platforms
Experience building or improving portfolio dashboards, planning reports, intake trackers, or demand pipeline views
Ability to identify opportunities for tooling improvements, process automation, and practical use of AI to improve sizing, planning, reporting, and governance workflows
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Responsibilities

Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls, and governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
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.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.