Programme Director

Key Requirements

• This role will be leading a large global investments transformation and new technology platform, and the successful candidate must bring proven experience in a complex programme delivery role
• The successful candidate will need to establish clear governance structures, defining scope and outcomes aligned to the strategic objectives, and driving execution across multiple regions, regulatory environment, and business lines
• The role requires an individual adept at managing interdependencies across technology, operation risk, and front office stakeholders, some very senior
• The successful candidate must be able to maintain rigorous control over timelines, resources, and risks

• Experience of a private banking investments products and operating models
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of delivering with an external vendor

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

• 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. They are 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. They ensure 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. They look 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.

• 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…