Innovation Enablement Lead

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Barclays as an Innovation Enablement Lead within the Chief Technology Office, where you will play a key role in driving AI-enabled innovation across the bank.

You will bring a strong understanding of the innovation lifecycle and be responsible for tracking initiatives across all stages, managing dashboards and reporting, overseeing resource capacity, and ensuring projects and sprints remain on track through effective delivery governance. You will manage projects rather than being actively involved in delivery, while maintaining a strong interest in emerging technologies.

The role supports a wide range of evolving innovation priorities including AI enablement across various functions and platforms, alongside exploring AI tools to enhance team productivity.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of applied innovation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and existing frameworks.
• Proven track record of engaging and aligning stakeholders to deliver innovation, including defining opportunities and challenges, setting objectives, establishing governance structures, and aligning strategic priorities, while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Strong grasp of digital platforms, AI, emerging technologies, and customer innovation with experience of applying strategically to drive innovation.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Ability to navigate a fast-changing landscape, including shifts in market conditions, fintech disruptions, and emerging technologies. Comfortable adjusting strategies as needed.
• Experience developing and refining repeatable and sustainable processes to enhance efficiency and scalability for innovation, whilst driving Agile adoption to support continuous improvement.
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance standards, and risk management practices, ensuring that innovation strategies align with industry regulations.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Glasgow Campus.

Purpose of the role:

To collaborate, nurture and drive group innovation with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the bank stays at the forefront of innovation and adapts to the rapidly changing landscape in financial services and increasing customer expectations.

Accountabilities:

• Collaboration with a range of stakeholders to develop a portfolio of open innovation and strategic initiatives through experimentation, co‑creation, access to innovative technology capabilities, products and services and a global innovation ecosystem.
• Development and delivery of frameworks, ideation, training and tools to build a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing to enable new and creative ideas/solutions that deliver on the bank’s strategy.
• Provision of a global platform and curated ecosystem of partners to inform strategy, drive connectivity and new insights.
• Development of the strategic capabilities and programmes for the bank to deliver on its strategy, supporting the exploration, evaluation and execution of innovation and investment opportunities.
• Management and coordination between external stakeholders/partners and the bank, to successfully deliver joint projects and initiatives.
• Deliver thought leadership and insights to inform strategic decision making and organisational readiness, in conjunction with regular research, identifying emerging technologies and trends.
• Development and management of key metrics including key partnerships, innovation initiatives and impact through regular assessments to calculate the return on investment and identify any potential risks and issues.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalates breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• 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.

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.