Programme Management Office

Barclays; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in Glasgow is seeking a Programme Management Office professional to support agile project delivery and ensure project compliance with governance standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in an agile PMO environment and be skilled in project documentation and monitoring. This role promotes collaboration within a professional network while driving successful project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working in an agile PMO environment.
• Experience in supporting change management processes.
• Proven ability in project documentation and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Support change delivery managers in project delivery.
• Ensure compliance with the Barclays Control Framework.
• Monitor project performance and report status to management.
• Facilitate project governance and effective risk management.

Skills

PMO / VMO in an Agile delivery model

Producing high-quality PowerPoint documentation

Producing Agile Metrics

Supporting Agile Ceremonies

Practical experience with JIRA

Strong Excel skills for data manipulation

Job description

Join us as a Programme Management Office at Barclays, where you'll play a role in enabling data-driven decisions to optimise value within Wholesale risk and support the annual planning process. This role requires extensive experience working in an agile PMO environment to support and enable agile project delivery. You’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts.

To be successful as a Programme Management Office, you should have experience with:

• PMO / VMO in an Agile delivery model.
• Producing high-quality PowerPoint documentation.
• Producing Agile Metrics.

Additional valued skills include:

• Supporting Agile Ceremonies.
• Practical experience with JIRA.
• Strong Excel skills for data manipulation.

You may be assessed on key skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology skills, along with job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in our Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

To support change delivery managers in delivering successful projects while ensuring project management processes align with controls and governance standards, and projects support the organisation's strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Supporting change delivery managers to ensure programme compliance with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
• Creating and implementing standardised PMO processes and methodologies aligned with controls and governance standards to support successful project delivery.
• Monitoring project performance, tracking progress, identifying risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and reporting project status to senior management.
• Maintaining project documentation, including plans, schedules, and budgets, ensuring accuracy and currency.
• Facilitating project governance, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and effective management of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Providing change management framework training to project managers and stakeholders.
• Continuously improving project management practices through identifying areas for enhancement and implementing improvements.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advising and influencing decision-making, contributing to policy development, and collaborating across functions.
• Leading a team on complex tasks, setting objectives, coaching, and appraising performance.
• Demonstrating leadership behaviours that foster a thriving environment, including listening, inspiring, aligning, and developing others.
• Leading collaborative assignments, guiding team members, and identifying new directions or methodologies.
• Consulting on complex issues and supporting risk mitigation and policy development.
• Managing risks and controls, understanding cross-area coordination, and supporting business strategy alignment.
• Engaging in complex data analysis, communicating sensitive or complex information, and influencing stakeholders.

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