Pensions Business Change Manager - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Barclays; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 70 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Barclays is seeking a Pensions Business Change Manager to drive change across a high-profile transformation within a regulated environment in London. You will translate strategy into clear change narratives, build engagement with senior stakeholders and deliver compelling communications and executive materials.

You will manage multiple workstreams, guide governance and risk discussions, and ensure changes are embedded within the organisation through training and effective stakeholder management.

Qualificações

• Experience delivering business change within pensions environments.
• Change management and change impact assessment experience, translating strategy into practical change activity.
• Senior stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills.
• Experience developing change frameworks, stakeholder communications and executive-level materials.

Responsabilidades

• Manage change projects to meet scope, budget and quality standards.
• Develop and manage project plans with timelines and resource needs.
• Communicate progress to senior management, project teams and external partners.
• Lead project teams and ensure proper resourcing and skills.
• Manage project budgets and create progress reports.
• Identify and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Facilitate change management activities, including training and communication.

Conhecimentos

Pensions change delivery

Change management

Stakeholder management

Change frameworks development

Change narrative

Pensions domain experience

Large-scale transformation

Governance risk & controls

Descrição da oferta de emprego

In this role, you will act as a key Business Change Manager supporting a high-profile transformation programme within a complex pensions and regulated environment. You will work across the programme to understand the impact of change, bring structure to ambiguity and translate strategic objectives into a clear and compelling change story. You will develop change approaches and frameworks, ensuring stakeholders understand what is changing, why it is changing and what it means for them.

You will build relationships with senior stakeholders and work across multiple teams to drive engagement, readiness and adoption. You will create clear internal and external messaging, executive updates, steering materials and other change communications, adapting complex information for different audiences. You will be comfortable working at pace in an evolving environment, using your judgement and change expertise to provide direction where requirements may not yet be fully defined.

Skills

To be successful as a Pensions Business Change Manager - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract, you must have the following essential skills:

• Experience delivering business change within pensions environment.
• Change management and change impact assessment experience, with the ability to translate strategy into practical change activity.
• Senior stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills.
• Experience developing change frameworks, stakeholder communications and executive-level materials.
• You will be comfortable working through ambiguity, taking complex information and turning it into a clear change narrative and actionable approach.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Direct pensions experience in financial services environment.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation programmes involving multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience working within established governance, risk and control frameworks.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

Your role will be located from our London office.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• 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.

Vice President Expectations

• To 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 escalations of 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. They may also 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..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• 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.