Programme Manager

Aplaro Ltd; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Programme Manager to lead complex change initiatives aligned to strategic objectives. The role requires coordinating multi-year programmes, ensuring delivery on time, budget, and to governance standards, while engaging with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

The position focuses on delivering high-impact programmes and embedding change across the organisation, with emphasis on risk management, reporting and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing change programmes ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Strong stakeholder engagement with senior management and partners.
• Ability to develop and manage detailed project plans and governance.
• Risk management, issue tracking and dependency management across programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead change programmes to support strategic objectives and ensure delivery within time, budget and quality.
• Develop and manage comprehensive programme plans including scope, timelines and resources.
• Communicate progress to senior stakeholders and project teams to align needs and expectations.
• Lead project teams, ensuring proper resourcing and capability to deliver objectives.
• Manage programme budgets and create regular progress reports on status and outcomes.
• Identify and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies across the portfolio.

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 escape 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.

Join us at Barclays as a Programme Manager, where you’ll lead change initiatives that support our strategic objectives and ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest governance standards. This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping future capabilities by driving complex, high‑impact programmes across the organisation. To be successful as a Programme Manager, you should h