Project Manager

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Project Manager

Radbroke

As a Barclays Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of technology projects for Global Technology Infrastructure Services (GTIS). This will involve you managing technical teams, owning your assigned projects, managing dependencies across the projects and wider portfolio and delivering change across a highly complex estate. It is your chance to demonstrate your excellent team leadership and stakeholder management skills as well as delivering expectations of senior stakeholders, including managing director level colleagues.

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 recognizes 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 career, 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.

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 can 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?

• Taking responsibility for the definition, documentation and satisfactory completion of small to medium scale projects
• Identifying, assessing and managing risks, issues and dependencies to ensure the success of the project
• Ensuring that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained and providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders
• Checking that quality reviews occur on schedule according to procedure
• Managing the change control procedure to ensure that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets are signed off
• Providing effective leadership to the project team and taking appropriate action where performance deviates from the agreed tolerances
• Monitoring finances to within budgets and managing any variances, adhering to the correct change control procedures
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Experience of managing small to medium projects (£250k to £1M) end-to-end and a full understanding of the life cycle phases of a project
• Able to pro-actively identify risks, issues and dependencies and ability to perform analysis on value at risk and mitigation options across a project
• Adept at influencing others, including stakeholders and people across a wide range of disciplines and levels (both internal and external resources)
• Being comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty
  
  

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Confident to articulate concepts in day-to-day situations or in presentations to audiences at all levels
• Ability to manage the trade-offs of delivery within time, cost, and quality constraints
• Effective when working with unstructured teams, situations and environments
• Proven experience of managing projects via an agreed framework using tools such as Agile, Prince2, MS Project, Office 365
  
  

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

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