About the Role
This role focuses on co-designing measurement tools to influence colleague behavior and drive successful change. It also involves leading the development of behavioral intervention capabilities to enhance team expertise.
Responsibilities
- Apply business, academic evidence-based research, and market insights to design, test, and deploy colleague behavioral and attitudinal measurement tools.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary squad to build evidence-based products through strong collaboration, informed influencing, and commercial acumen.
- Develop new capabilities for the OB team, acting as the lead for behavioral interventions in collaboration with external partners.
- Conduct rapid evidence assessments and produce focused reports with actionable insights.
- Plan and manage organizational behavioral science initiatives.
- Ensure adherence to HR/Group policies, standards, governance, and internal controls.
- Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches.
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to achieve business goals.
- Collaborate with other work areas to stay updated on business activity and strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis and interpretative thinking.
- Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve business objectives.
- Act as the strategic link between HR, business stakeholders, and Microsoft product owners, leading the effective use of Microsoft Viva, M365, Copilot, and related data platforms.
- Develop expertise in Microsoft technologies and data ecosystems, including Microsoft Fabric, to align business ambitions with technology capabilities.
- Shape product direction, influence roadmaps, and ensure HR priorities are translated into scalable, data-driven solutions.
- Support the design and continuous improvement of a coherent HR data framework, connecting and analysing complex datasets.
- Establish repeatable approaches to data modelling, insight generation, and solution design.
- Drive innovation through new use cases and advanced analytics.
- Lead the development of insight-led solutions to improve decision making, optimise HR processes, and enhance colleague experiences.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of Microsoft Viva, M365 and/or Copilot ecosystems as well as Microsoft Fabric.
- Expertise in data architecture, data modelling, and data governance.
- Ability to connect and interpret complex, cross-platform datasets.
- Stakeholder management and influencing capability at a senior level.
- Experience bridging business requirements and technology/product delivery.
- Ability to translate technical data into clear, actionable business insight.
- Commercial and strategic thinking aligned to business outcomes.
- Experience designing frameworks, models, or scalable data solutions.
- Experience in HR, colleague experience, or digital workplace domains.
- Familiarity with employee experience platforms and HR journeys.
- Experience working within product-led or agile delivery environments.
- Exposure to advanced analytics, AI, or insight-driven decision-making.
- Experience leading innovation, experimentation, or transformation initiatives.
- Understanding of data governance and regulatory considerations in a complex organisation.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- 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.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Skills
- Microsoft Viva
- M365
- Copilot
- Microsoft Fabric
- Data architecture
- Data modelling
- Data governance
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing
- Commercial thinking
- Strategic thinking
- HR
- Colleague experience
- Digital workplace
- Employee experience platforms
- Agile delivery
- Advanced analytics
- AI
- Insight-driven decision-making
- Innovation
- Experimentation
- Transformation
- Risk management
- Controls
- Change management
- Business acumen
- Digital technology
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
About the Company
- Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.
