AVP-Transformation and Design Enablement

Barclays•Jefferson Park, NY

6d•$115,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as an AVP-Transformation and Design Enablement. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Join USCB’s Value Management Office (VMO) at a pivotal moment as we scale the Ways of Working (WoW) operating model—standardizing how we plan, govern, and deliver outcomes across journeys, platforms, and practices. You’ll help translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes, strengthening traceability from investment strategies to delivery and benefits. This role offers high-visibility exposure across senior stakeholders and the chance to shape “how USCB gets work done” as WoW continues to expand across ~1,500 colleagues working in tribes and squads.

Requirements

Setting direction, connecting work to Barclays/USCB strategy, and keeping delivery aligned to outcomes over activity
Guiding multi-faceted cross-functional forums, shaping strategies, and driving clarity of accountability across constructs
Understanding and influencing enterprise-wide change programs on behalf of the USCB portfolio
Resolving cross-stream conflicts, and enabling consistent prioritization and measurement approaches
Designing operating model processes and governance constructs that improve transparency, predictability, and strategy-making across delivery constructs
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

Process iteration/standardization, and structured socialization through governance channels
Defining progress measures and improving assurance in dashboards/MI for senior forums
Enterprise agile/scaled agile transformation exposure and the ability to translate model values into practical BU adoption

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.
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.
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. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.