Job Description

Join Barclays as a Senior PMO and play a pivotal role in driving organisational change and ensuring smooth delivery of business-critical initiatives. You will own the programme-wide RAID framework, maintain consistency, traceability, and effective escalation, while co-ordinating the resolution of cross-functional risks and engaging senior stakeholders directly. Working closely with delivery leads, you will design and execute remediation and mitigation plans, produce high-quality governance packs, decision papers, and insight reporting for senior forums, and support independent assurance or regulatory reviews through cohesive evidence and narrative. The role also involves strengthening PMO discipline across the programme by embedding standards, controls, and delivery hygiene, acting as a key problem-solver for blockers through root cause analysis and influence, and driving continuous improvement of PMO processes to align with programme maturity and simplification goals.


The role requires a strong PMO or delivery background within regulatory, risk, or control transformation programmes, coupled with proven experience in owning and resolving complex challenges that span multiple workstreams or functions. Exceptional stakeholder influence and communication skills at senior levels are essential, alongside a deep understanding of governance, control, and assurance requirements. Candidates must demonstrate an analytical mindset with the ability to connect detailed insights to strategic outcomes and show evidence of end-to-end delivery ownership across large, regulated programmes. This is an execution leadership role, accountable for driving outcomes.


To be successful as you should have:

Ability to align PMO activities with strategic, financial, and regulatory priorities. Experience leading large-scale initiatives, managing impacts, and embedding new ways of working. Big-picture perspective to anticipate challenges, influence direction, and support long-term planning.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Written Communication - Clear, concise documentation for varied audiences. Stakeholder Management - Strong relationship-building and influencing skills across complex landscapes. Collaboration - Cross-functional teamwork, knowledge sharing, and a supportive culture.

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 is based in London, Knutsford, or Glasgow

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

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 escalate 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 for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.. 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.