Programme & Project Manager

Barclays Business Banking; Northampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Programme & Project Manager, responsible for managing change initiatives and strategic objectives across multiple projects. This role requires strong communication and organizational skills, with a focus on stakeholder management and financial oversight. You will play a key role in ensuring projects align with business strategies and deliver long-term benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience managing change initiatives and delivering projects.
• Strong ability to manage diverse stakeholders and communicate effectively.
• Experience in procurement and strategic project management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee related projects to achieve strategic business objectives.
• Manage risks and issues at a higher level, ensuring alignment across projects.
• Allocate resources efficiently and oversee the program budget.

Skills

Communication Skills

Strong Organizational Skills

Stakeholder Management

Experience with Procurement

Sustainability and Programmes

Project Management

Job description

Join us as a Programme & Project Manager at Barclays, within the CRES and Procurement Central Programme Management Office Practice. You will play a crucial role in managing and delivering change initiatives across the function, ensuring adherence to plans, timescales, budgets, scope, and governance standards.

To be successful as a Programme & Project Manager, you should have experience with:

• Communication Skills
• Strong Organizational Skills
• Stakeholder Management

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with Procurement
• Sustainability and Programmes
• Project Management

This role will be based out of Northampton.

Purpose of the role

Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long-term, cross-functional focus.

Accountabilities

• Scope Management: Oversees related projects aiming to achieve strategic business objectives, focusing on long-term benefits and alignment with organizational goals.
• Strategic Focus: Ensures projects align with the overall business strategy and focuses on high-level outcomes.
• Time Horizon: Works over extended periods, managing multiple phases and projects spanning months or years.
• Stakeholder Management: Manages diverse stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and alignment across projects.
• Risk and Issue Management: Handles risks and issues at a higher level, considering cross-project dependencies and impacts.
• Resource Management: Allocates resources efficiently across projects, balancing priorities.
• Financial Management: Oversees the program budget, ensuring value delivery.
• Metrics: Measures success through benefits delivered, business outcomes, and strategic alignment.
• Change Management: Manages macro-level changes across projects to ensure cohesion.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage policies and processes; deliver improvements; escalate breaches.
• For those managing teams, define roles, plan for future needs, counsel on performance, and influence operations, balancing goals and budgets.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen & be authentic, Energise & inspire, Align & develop others.
• For individual contributors, serve as subject matter experts, guide technical direction, lead assignments, train and coach others, and inform strategic decisions.
• Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
• Manage risks and strengthen controls, demonstrating leadership and accountability.
• Understand organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Create solutions using sophisticated analysis and innovative thinking.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders, influencing and negotiating to achieve objectives.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.