Head of Talent Development Programmes

In this role, you will lead Barclays’ Talent Development programmes across Vice President, Director, and Managing Director levels, acting as the Product Owner responsible for the design, content, and strategic impact of all three Accelerator Programmes. You will shape the end‑to‑end experience by designing high‑quality content, ensuring strategic alignment, and maintaining clarity of purpose for each senior population. Supported by embedded Project Managers for operational governance, you will retain ultimate accountability for outcomes, investment, and the overall effectiveness of these programmes, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of high‑potential leaders.

You will play a key role in delivering the Senior Leader Group (SLG) events, working directly with MDs, ExCo members, and senior partners across Barclays to shape agendas and deliver high‑impact experiences for bank’s most senior leaders.

As a highly visible leadership role, you will navigate complex stakeholder landscapes, manage significant programme investment, and oversee nomination cycles and reporting across the organisation. You will build credibility with ExCo‑level sponsors, manage expectations across multiple senior communities, and ensure the consistency, quality, and strategic integration of all high‑potential offerings. You will also lead the launch of the new MD Accelerator Programme and drive ongoing evolution of the Vice President and Director programmes, enhancing design, increasing impact, and aligning development with Barclays’ strategic priorities.

With responsibility for a significant programme portfolio and large‑scale senior‑leader populations, you will operate with confidence, precision, and influence, ensuring that Barclays’ most talented leaders are identified, elevated, and supported to reach their full potential.

Your role will be located from our Glasgow office.

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.

To design and implement programmes and initiatives that support the growth and development of the bank’s employees and leaders.

• Development and implementation of training and development programmes and initiatives, including creation and execution of training sessions, workshops, and other learning opportunities.
• Collaboration with HR and hiring managers to analyse the current and future development needs of the organisation.
• Design and delivery of classroom and digital based training content, programmes and associated User Experience.
• Management of onboarding programmes including training, onboarding materials, introduction meetings and providing support throughout the onboarding process.
• Analysis of data and metrics to measure success of talent development programmes and initiatives.
• Development and implementation of coaching and mentoring programmes, train the trainer programmes for facilitators and relevant educational materials.
• Develop and implement talent pipelining processes, identifying, managing, progressing and promoting talent capability across the bank with succession management and career progression.

• 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 elevate 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…