Delivery Lead

Join us as a Delivery Lead at Barclays, where you will 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.

To be successful as a Delivery Lead, you should have:

• Experience in taking responsibility for overall leadership, planning and delivery of multiple initiatives simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered in line with agreed quality thresholds and time frames.
• Experience in adopting a change management framework using governance and planning tools, RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies), change management, budget and resource management, continuous improvement, etc. and the ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders, including at senior level.
• Experience in driving strategic technical deliveries whilst balancing changes that are service-sustaining and ensure our applications remain best in class.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in delivering process improvements to facilitate ongoing improvements in ways of working.
• Experience in multiple delivery mechanisms, including Waterfall and Agile, and matrix management.
• Experience of managing vendor relationships and dependencies on different teams involved in technical projects.

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 out of our Knutsford campus.

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.

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

• 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, counseling 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…