Programme Manager

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Programme Manager within HR Talent Development to drive enterprise-wide AI and digital learning initiatives, guiding complex workstreams and aligning with strategic goals. You will shape people-focused learning solutions, support AI capability growth, and provide governance and insights on progress and dependencies.

The role requires leadership, stakeholder management, and experience delivering large-scale transformation in a complex organisation, with strong collaboration

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale change, transformation, or organisational development programmes.
• Delivery of people-focused transformation initiatives including workforce adoption or capability-building.
• Exposure to AI or digital learning technologies and their application in business.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to engage senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as a delivery lead within HR Talent Development for enterprise-wide AI and digital learning initiatives.
• Coordinate complex workstreams and maintain alignment to strategic objectives while managing risks and dependencies.
• Provide governance, delivery oversight, and actionable insights on progress and results.
• Foster collaboration across HR, technology, product and delivery teams to drive decision-making and engagement.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Stakeholder management

Learning & development

AI familiarity

Job description

Job Description 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 elevate 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 interpretive 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.

In this role

In this role, you will act as a key delivery lead within HR Talent Development, driving the successful delivery of enterprise-wide AI and digital learning initiatives that support organisational transformation and workforce upskilling. Working across multiple stakeholders, you will lead the co-ordination of complex workstreams, ensuring delivery plans remain aligned to strategic objectives while maintaining momentum in a fast-paced and evolving environment. You will help shape and embed people-focused learning solutions, supporting the next phase of AI capability building and digital learning transformation across the organisation. You will support senior leaders by providing clear governance, delivery oversight, and actionable insights on progress, risks, and dependencies. Bringing strong programme and change management expertise, you will foster collaboration across HR, technology, product, and delivery teams to drive decision-making and engagement. Your ability to navigate complex organisations, influence stakeholders, and deliver large-scale transformation programmes will be critical in ensuring successful adoption and sustained business impact.

To be successful as a Programme Manager

To be successful as a Programme Manager, you will have experience with: Leading large-scale change, transformation, or organisational development programmes within complex organisations. Delivering people-focused transformation initiatives, including workforce adoption, engagement or capability-building programmes. Learning & Development, Talent Development, digital learning, or broader people transformation environments. Exposure to AI, digital learning technologies, or technology-enabled learning solutions, with the ability to apply these concepts in a business setting. Stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders and cross-functional teams to drive delivery outcomes. Other desirable skills include: Knowledge of learning product delivery, governance frameworks, and agile ways of working. Experience working across HR, technology, product, and business teams to deliver strategic learning solutions. 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.

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.