COO & Functions
Location
Wilmington, DE | United States
Job description
Project Manager
Wilmington, DE
As a Barclays Project Manager, you will lead complex, highly visible programs or projects that cut across the business, operations, and technology by developing a plan, managing potential risks and benefits, working with your business partners to land on the best solutions, and driving your team to deliver through completion. You will coordinate overall project documentation across all bank functions including requirements, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, weekly status reports, etc. and ensure compliance with Barclays policies and standards.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Managing medium to large projects with multiple business, operations, and technology stakeholders
• Organizing project delivery cadence and run effective discussions with senior leadership and project team
• Defining, creating and update project plan. Track upcoming deliverables and ensure completion of project milestones and tasks
• Performing daily administrative tasks including time management, training and other duties as required and recognize potential risks or issues quickly, escalate effectively
• Ensuring projects are completed according to time and budget schedules, and that goals conform to line of business' overall standards
• Managing work teams through successful delivery of intended outcomes and Support internal risk reviews and audits, as necessary
• Leveraging project management best practices and apply lessons learned from completed projects and promoting effective working relationships with stakeholders
• Enforcing effective change control and drive financial accountability and transparency through budget management, monitoring and reporting of forecast vs. actuals
What we’re looking for:
• More than five years project management experience with demonstrated experience on managing medium to large initiatives, involving multiple business/ workstreams
• Proven ability to manage and influence resources to deliver to intended outcomes in a matrixed environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office applications: Project, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
Skills that will help you in the role:
• PMP/PMI certification, LEAN or Six Sigma a plus
• Good working knowledge and understanding of Agile methodologies, certifications a plus
Where will you be working?
Barclays' Wilmington campus includes two beautiful buildings located along the historic Wilmington Riverfront. A glance out our windows reveal a scenic look at the Christina River, along with a growing riverfront community of luxury apartments, shops, and restaurants. Additionally, the Wilmington train station is a short walk away making travel from New York and Washington, DC convenient.
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