Business Agility Partner

As a Business Agility Partner, you'll work within our Transformation team to provide critical agile coaching and support across Enterprise Programmes. You'll play an important part in the adoption of BUK ways of working, providing key thought leadership and provision of technique support to teams across BUK Customer Journey Labs, including the accelerated customer journey transformation. Transformation will make sure we have an increasingly clear and aligned view on how the various changes that we are delivering on behalf of our customers and clients will combine to create a new business model, whilst continuing to deliver on our commitments to our shareholder. The team will ensure that we keep focused on the right outcomes, at the right time, and on making sure we are as coordinated as we must be by embedding agile ways of working to reduce wastage whilst driving better outcomes. Within this role, the successful candidate will act as a role model to drive change and application of core skills, understand team performance and lead workshops on adoption of new ways of working, including agile values, principles, practices, and frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. You'll work to support the implementation of the end-to-end Execution Method standards and practices, and ensure alignment and consistency across BUK Transformation. You will be responsible for the creation and execution of a project control framework encompassing resource, financial control and governance/compliance management either on an individual project/programme basis or as part of a business wide remit. You'll have the ability to determine or influence strategy and approach required to deliver against the outcomes of our transformational change initiatives. Purpose of the role To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. Accountabilities Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards. Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects. Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met. Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives. Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget. Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget. Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary. Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation. 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 escalate 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. 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. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. 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. 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. 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.

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