What will you be doing?
Barclays Services LLC seeks Project Manager, Assistant Vice President in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):
- Planning, execution, control and completion of multiple large scale Information Technology projects.
- Organizing and scheduling project team meetings.
- Coordinating overall project documentation including requirements, gathering meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and weekly status reports.
- Creating project stages, assessing business implications for each stage, and updating project plans.
- Monitoring upcoming deliverables and ensuring completion of project milestones and tasks.
- Updating budget tracking sheet and monitoring forecast vs. actuals.
- Responsible for the delivery of technology projects on-time, within budget and with quality.
- Ensuring projects are completed according to time and budget schedules, and that objectives conform to line of business' overall standards, operations objectives, user requirements and client’s needs.
- Providing status and updates on programs as requested with executive management, partners and internal project teams.
- Ensuring that Key Measures of Success and Benefits are quantifiable and measurable post implementation.
- Responsible for identifying and implementing continuous improvement and best practices in the project life cycle within and across industry segments.
- May Telecommute
This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program
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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- 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 practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- 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.
