AVP Program Management Office - Location Strategy

Barclays • New York, NY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as an AVP Program Management Office - Location Strategy. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support the effective delivery of Property Technology programmes across Amers by providing governance, reporting, planning, and insight. You will help ensure consistent application of standards, enable informed decision-making, and strengthen delivery confidence across projects and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Considerable understanding of PMO frameworks, delivery lifecycles, controls, RAID management, and governance processes
• Validated ability to create, maintain, and analyze plans, milestones, dependencies, financials, and status reports for senior stakeholders
• Ability to interpret delivery data, identify trends, risks, and issues, and translate them into clear, actionable insights
• Influential communicator, able to engage with programme managers, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders using clear, concise outputs
• Ample experience with PMO tools and reporting platforms such as MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project, PPM tools

Nice To Haves

• Formal PMO / Delivery Qualifications - PRINCE2, MSP, P3O, Agile, or equivalent delivery or PMO certification
• Financial & Benefits Management - Experience tracking budgets, forecasts, funding approvals, and benefits realization
• Change & Continuous Improvement - Experience improving PMO processes, standards, or reporting through automation, simplification, or tooling enhancements

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed