Barclays
Innovation Enablement Lead
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Join Barclays as an Innovation Enablement Lead within the Chief Technology Office
Within the Chief Technology Office, you will play a key role in driving AI-enabled innovation across the bank. You will bring a strong understanding of the innovation lifecycle and be responsible for tracking initiatives across all stages, managing dashboards and reporting, overseeing resource capacity, and ensuring projects and sprints remain on track through effective delivery governance. You will manage projects rather than being actively involved in delivery, while maintaining a strong interest in emerging technologies. The role supports a wide range of evolving innovation priorities including AI enablement across various functions and platforms, alongside exploring AI tools to enhance team productivity.
To be successful in this role, you will need the following:
- Experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of applied innovation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and existing frameworks.
- Proven track record of engaging and aligning stakeholders to deliver innovation, including defining opportunities and challenges, setting objectives, establishing governance structures, and aligning strategic priorities, while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Strong grasp of digital platforms, AI, emerging technologies, and customer innovation with experience of applying strategically to drive innovation.
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
- Ability to navigate a fast-changing landscape, including shifts in market conditions, fintech disruptions, and emerging technologies. Comfortable adjusting strategies as needed.
- Experience developing and refining repeatable and sustainable processes to enhance efficiency and scalability for innovation, whilst driving Agile adoption to support continuous improvement.
- Deep understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management practices, ensuring that innovation strategies align with industry regulations.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The successful candidate will be based in Glasgow Campus.
Purpose of the role
To collaborate, nurture, and drive group innovation with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the bank stays at the forefront of innovation and adapts to the rapidly changing landscape in financial services and increasing customer expectations.
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Accountabilities
- Collaboration with a range of stakeholders to develop a portfolio of open innovation and strategic initiatives through experimentation, co-creation, access to innovative technology capabilities, products, and services, and a global innovation ecosystem.
- Development and delivery of frameworks, ideation, training, and tools to build a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing to enable new and creative ideas/solutions that deliver on the bank’s strategy.
- Provision of a global platform and curated ecosystem of partners to inform strategy, drive connectivity, and new insights.
- Development of the strategic capabilities and programmes for the bank to deliver on its strategy, supporting the exploration, evaluation, and execution of innovation and investment opportunities.
- Management and coordination between external stakeholders/partners and the bank, to successfully deliver joint projects and initiatives.
- Deliver thought leadership and insights to inform strategic decision-making and organisational readiness, in conjunction with regular research, identifying emerging technologies and trends.
- Development and management of key metrics including key partnerships, innovation initiatives, and impact through regular assessments to calculate the return on investment and identify any potential risks and issues.
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 escalate 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 their 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 their team does.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's 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.
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