About the Role
Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long-term, cross-functional focus. This role will act as the central point of accountability across Operations, Technology, Product, Transformation, and Business stakeholders to ensure facilities are migrated successfully, operational risks are mitigated, and target business outcomes are achieved.
Responsibilities
- Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives.
- Focuses on strategic, high-level outcomes and ensures alignment of projects with the organization’s business strategy.
- Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, including executives, project managers, and external clients.
- Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross-project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.
- Responsible for allocating resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, and ensuring efficient resource utilization.
- Manages the overall program budget, tracking financial health and ensuring program value delivery.
- Measures success based on cumulative benefits delivered by all projects within the program, focusing on business outcomes and value creation.
- Manages change at a macro level, ensuring cohesive management of changes across projects.
- Contributes to or sets strategy, drives requirements, and makes recommendations for change.
- Plans resources, budgets, and policies; manages and maintains policies/processes; delivers continuous improvements.
- Advises key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manages and mitigates risks through assessment.
- Demonstrates leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
- Collaborates with other areas of work to stay updated on business activity and strategies.
- Creates solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Defines problems and develops innovative solutions through in-depth analysis and interpretative thinking.
- Adopts and includes outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
- Builds and maintains trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Uses influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Demonstrates the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Demonstrates the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
- Responsible for the planning, governance, and execution of facility migrations from ACBS to LoanIQ.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large-scale lending platform migrations or system transformation programmes.
- Strong stakeholder management and programme governance skills.
- Strong understanding of the lending lifecycle.
- Deep knowledge of LoanIQ.
- Experience with using AI automation tools.
- ACBS experience.
- Line Operations experience within Wholesale Lending.
- Risk and controls expertise.
- Change and transformation expertise.
- Business acumen.
- Strategic thinking.
- Digital and technology skills.
- Job-specific technical skills.
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Programme governance
- Lending lifecycle understanding
- LoanIQ
- AI automation tools
- ACBS
- Line Operations
- Wholesale Lending
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Digital and technology
- Technical skills
- Influencing
- Negotiating
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Senior level
About the Company
- Barclays is a global financial services provider.
