AVP-Transformation and Design Enablement

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an AVP in Transformation and Design Enablement to scale the WoW operating model for USCB. You will translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps, drive governance, and deliver measurable outcomes, with high visibility across senior stakeholders.

The role requires leadership across portfolios, guiding cross-functional forums and accelerating enterprise-wide change programs, while strengthening traceability from investment to delivery and benefits. Whippany, NJ based.

Qualifications

• Experience connecting work to Barclays/USCB strategy and delivering outcomes over activities.
• Ability to guide multi-functional forums and define accountability across constructs.
• Experience influencing enterprise-wide change programs for portfolios.
• Skill in resolving cross-stream conflicts and enabling consistent prioritization and measurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio management ensuring alignment with control framework and governance standards.
• Support governance of the portfolio with data-driven decision making and timely executive reporting.
• Monitor portfolio performance, track program progress, and report risks/issues to senior stakeholders.
• Prioritize Book of Work, manage dependencies, and balance resources and stakeholder buy-in.
• Drive robust controls data, remediate weaknesses, and mature key control indicators.
• Provide best-practice guidance to ensure governance excellence across the portfolio.

Skills

Strategy alignment

Cross-functional leadership

Change management

Portfolio governance

Prioritization

Job description

Embark on a transformative journey as an AVP-Transformation and Design Enablement. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Join USCB’s Value Management Office (VMO) at a pivotal moment as we scale the Ways of Working (WoW) operating model—standardizing how we plan, govern, and deliver outcomes across journeys, platforms, and practices. You’ll help translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes, strengthening traceability from investment strategies to delivery and benefits. This role offers high-visibility exposure across senior stakeholders and the chance to shape “how USCB gets work done” as WoW continues to expand across ~1,500 colleagues working in tribes and squads.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Setting direction, connecting work to Barclays/USCB strategy, and keeping delivery aligned to outcomes over activity
• Guiding multi-faceted cross-functional forums, shaping strategies, and driving clarity of accountability across constructs
• Understanding and influencing enterprise-wide change programs on behalf of the USCB portfolio
• Resolving cross-stream conflicts, and enabling consistent prioritization and measurement approaches
• Designing operating model processes and governance constructs that improve transparency, predictability, and strategy-making across delivery constructs

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Process iteration/standardization, and structured socialization through governance channels
• Defining progress measures and improving assurance in dashboards/MI for senior forums
• Enterprise agile/scaled agile transformation exposure and the ability to translate model values into practical BU adoption

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, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $115,000

Maximum Salary: $155,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To lead the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the establishedcontrol framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
• Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
• Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy‑in, and potential risks.
• Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
• Review, resolve, manage and elevate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
• Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
• Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
• Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls, and governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.