Strategy and Transformation Lead

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To drive the successful implementation and commercial realization of the bank's strategic goals, ensuring alignment with market trends and delivering sustained financial performance.

Accountabilities

• Understanding and interpretation of the bank's overall strategic objectives and translate them into concrete action plans for specific business units and functions.
• Development of detailed implementation roadmaps, outlining key initiatives, timelines, resource allocation, and performance metrics.
• Development and implementation of robust commercial models for new initiatives and ventures, ensuring financial viability and profitability.
• Identification and analysis of potential risks and opportunities, providing insights and recommendations for strategic decision-making.
• Development and implementation of effective change management strategies to facilitate the adoption of new initiatives and processes.

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. 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• 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.

Join us as a Strategy and Transformation Lead, to support the Technology Transformation Office within Investment Banking Technology, improving how the organisation is structured, how work is delivered, and how resources are aligned to business priorities. This role focuses on strengthening organisational efficiency, operating models, and long-term people strategy across IB Technology.

This role will involve being responsible for key areas of work that shape and deliver organisation-wide change, turning high-level goals into clear, practical plans and ensuring delivery through to completion. You will play an important role in helping Barclays operate more effectively, respond more quickly to change, and align resources to business needs. You will work closely with senior stakeholders and help inform choices that influence how the organisation evolves, while continuing to build your experience in delivering large-scale transformation.

To be successful as a Strategy and Transformation Lead, you should have experience with:

• Supporting the delivery of strategic transformation work, with the ability to take broad or unclear goals and turn them into structured plans, driving progress and ensuring outcomes are achieved.
• Using a structured approach to problem solving and data review to understand issues, explore different options, and recommend practical actions based on evidence and insights.
• Working with and influencing senior stakeholders across Technology, COO, and Business teams, building trusted relationships, aligning priorities, and supporting progress across multiple areas of work.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience in organisation design, including shaping operating models, team structures, and reporting lines to support business goals.
• Knowledge of people strategy, such as planning future skills, aligning people to priorities, and supporting longer-term organisational needs.
• Experience in operating model transformation, helping organisations improve how work is delivered across teams and functions.

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.

This role will be based in London.