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About The Position

Requirements

• Experience supporting global real estate workstreams and PMO for large programs in regulated financial environments
• Experience leading PMO teams
• Project Management qualification or equivalent
• Ability to work with a range of stakeholders, in roles across a large complex organization, to generate feedback, support and energy associated with their subject matter
• Proficiency in risk, governance, and control environments
• Ability to analyze issues, interpret data, and resolve problems collaboratively
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience of working in large financial services organizations/banks
• Experience with defining and implementing new frameworks and processes in a large organization
• Excellent presentation and communication skills along with the ability to produce documents of clear information appropriate for senior management

Responsibilities

• Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives.
• Focuses on strategic, high-level outcomes and the overall success and continuous alignment of projects to the organization’s business strategy.
• Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, including executives, project managers, and external clients.
• Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross-project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.
• Responsible for allocating resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, and ensuring that resources are used efficiently across the program.
• Manages the overall program budget, tracking the financial health of multiple projects and ensuring that the program as a whole delivers value.
• Measures success based on the cumulative benefits delivered by all the projects within the program, looking at business outcomes, value creation, and alignment with strategic goals.
• Deals with change at a macro level, ensuring that changes across projects are managed cohesively and don’t negatively impact the overall program.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lead PMO activities across multiple CRES workstreams, enabling project teams to execute effectively.
• Support the evolution of the PMO practice by strengthening frameworks, enhancing tools, and driving consistency, collaboration, and continuous improvement across all CRES programs.

Benefits

• Minimum Salary: $155,000
• Maximum Salary: $225,000