Consistently Excellent Programme Manager – Full Time Contract until December 2026 in Glasgow

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. In this role, you will act as a Programme Management Office (PMO) supporting a high‑profile, group‑wide cultural change programme within a large, regulated Financial Services environment. Operating at Assistant Vice President level, you will work within a transitional landscape where structures and ways of working are still being embedded.

You will provide hands‑on PMO support to ensure consistently quality programme delivery, while also enabling the transition from change initiatives into sustainable business‑as‑usual operations. Working closely with the Central PMO and senior stakeholders across the group, you will help align HR strategy across a broad portfolio of work as the programme moves toward closure, operating within an Agile delivery framework including Lean Portfolio Management.

You will support and influence senior leadership producing high‑quality materials and insights within a strongly governed environment that demands accuracy, precision, and sound judgement. As the programme enters its fourth year, you will navigate complexity, historical context, and multiple workstreams to understand impact and drive informed decision‑making.

This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a successful, large‑scale transformation with significant investment and regulatory interaction, while shaping future ways of working across HR. You will play a key stewardship role in closing down a major programme, embedding Agile and Lean practices, and supporting the organisation’s ongoing strategy and transformation agenda.

To be successful as a Consistently Excellent PMO, you should have experience with:

• Experience supporting large‑scale change programmes, ideally end‑to‑end.
• PMO capability within a regulated Financial Services environment.
• Solid understanding of governance, risk, and programme controls.

Other Highly Desired Skills Include:

• Agile delivery experience.
• Exposure to Lean Portfolio Management.
• Ability to operate confidently with senior stakeholders in high‑governance environments.

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.

Your role will be located from our Glasgow office.

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 a 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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.
• For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.