Join us as a Group Control PMO Manager at Barclays where you'll support on critical Strategic Investment Change Initiatives in Fraud, Wholesale Client Onboarding & GFCO, Chief Controls Office covering end to end PMO responsibilities. As part of our team, you’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry leaders and experts

To be successful as a Group Control PMO Manager you should have experience with

Being action-orientated with a focus on continuous improvement in all areas of responsibility, must have a strong PMO background spanning all disciplines.The ability to deliver quality results with a challenging but positive and influential style. Relationship building with a reputation for integrity, evoking rapid trust and confidence in clients, colleagues and teams alike.

Some other highly valued skills may include

Formal external qualification/accreditation in Programme/Project Management disciplineStrong communication skills and able to bring across complex messages clearly and succinctlyHigh degree of organisational awareness, experience of working with senior stakeholders

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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

This role will be based in our Knutsford office

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Purpose of the role
To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives. 

Accountabilities
· Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
· Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.  .
· Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of report on project status to senior management.
· Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
· Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively.
· Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.  .
· Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.


Vice President Expectations
· 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.