Job Description

Purpose of the Role

Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long-term, cross-functional focus.

Accountabilities

Scope Management

• Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives.
• Their focus is on the long-term benefits and ensuring the alignment of projects with the organization’s goals.

Strategic Focus

• Focuses on strategic, high-level outcomes.
• Responsible for the overall success and continuous alignment of projects to the organization’s business strategy.

Time Horizon

• Typically works over a longer time horizon, as programs may span months or years and involve multiple phases and projects.

Stakeholder Management

• Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, including executives, project managers, and external clients.
• Ensures communication and alignment across all projects within the program.

Risk and Issue Management

• Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross-project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.

Resource Management

• Responsible for allocating resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, and ensuring that resources are used efficiently across the program.

Financial Management

• Manages the overall program budget, tracking the financial health of multiple projects and ensuring that the program as a whole delivers value.

Metrics

• Measures success based on the cumulative benefits delivered by all the projects within the program.
• Looks at business outcomes, value creation, and alignment with strategic goals.

Change Management

• Deals with change at a macro level, ensuring that changes across projects are managed cohesively and don’t negatively impact the overall program.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
• Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
• All Senior 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