Portfolio Manager – CDD

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: Ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Project Plan Development: Outlining the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Stakeholder Communication: Ensuring senior management, project teams, and external partners are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are met.
• Project Team Management: Ensuring teams are properly resourced and have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Budget Management: Ensuring projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Report Creation: Ensuring proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and mitigating risk, assumptions, issues, and dependencies as necessary.
• Change Management Facilitation: Ensuring change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Director Expectations

• Function Management: Providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contributing to and influencing policy and procedures for the function.
• Project Management: Planning, managing, and consulting on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
• Team Leadership: Managing 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.
• Expert Advice: Providing expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function.
• Resource and Policy Management: Managing, coordinating, and enabling resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Compliance and Advocacy: Escalating breaches of policies/procedures appropriately, fostering and guiding compliance, ensuring regulations are observed, and monitoring and influencing on behalf of Barclays.
• Knowledge and Skills: Maintaining 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.
• Strategic Decisions: Using interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Stakeholder Influence: Negotiating with and influencing stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Communication: Acting as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions and mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
• Leadership Behaviours: Demonstrating 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: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• Barclays Values and Mindset: Demonstrating the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.