Barclays Jobs 2023 – HR Optimisation

About the job

Project Manager – 12 months Fixed Term contract

As a Barclays Project Manager, you will be joining our HR Optimisation team, supporting the HR Lead and Director across a variety of HR projects, namely supporting the current HR Transformation programme impacting colleagues across HR and the broader organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to join a knowledgeable team, where you will be playing a key role in managing the team’s work streams, partnering with senior stakeholders across multiple parts of HR and across the Group.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a range of HR activities as part of a large scale, strategic programmes, working with multiple HR areas
• Ensuring that sufficient level of detail and integration occurs across the projects and quality plans are prepared and maintained
• Preparing regular and accurate reports on progress against plan to stakeholders, through collaboration with the project leads
• Identifying and managing project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate via the agreed governance framework
• Providing detailed and robust reporting to key stakeholders and Project Forums and where required, writing programme updates to be delivered to the programme leadership team
• Monitoring actual performance against overall project deliverables and taking remedial actions
• Overseeing and supporting the Change Management project ensuring impacts assessment, training and communication activities are fit for purpose
• Ensuring projects being managed are compliant with relevant HR Optimisation framework governance methodologies

What We’re Looking For

• Project Management/Practitioner level accreditation (e.g. Prince 2, PMI, APM, Agile)
• Project management experience, working on business-driven initiatives with impact on Financial Services and Banking, as well as on large scale HR transformation programmes
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, being able to liaise with senior stakeholders
• Excellent MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, MS Project and Visio skills

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Ability to work and to manage across multiple projects, Business Units, functional teams and geography would be advantageous
• Good team and collaboration skills, being able to work effectively within a fully hybrid working team is preferred
• Knowledge of HR processes and systems would help you thrive into this role

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one – by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.