Job Description 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. Director Expectations To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function. Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence. Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives. Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives. Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations. Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area. Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally. Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions. Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division. All Senior 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. 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. The role sits within Liquid Financing (LF) Markets Change Execution, which operates at the intersection of Business Product and Technology, with accountability spanning portfolio oversight, execution enablement, and change delivery across LF initiatives LF delivery/portfolio lead is organised around three distinct role categories: Program Director – Strategic Oversight Execution Project Management Change & Transformation (Ways of Working / Tooling) Key LF change initiatives driving the role include: Alignment to Change Transformation (Catalyst) Rolling out Jira across LF Standardising LF setup and operating model Implementing DodFather (internal change contracting tool) Driving adoption, alignment, and behavioural change, not just tool deployment Key skills / experience required Strategy, prioritisation, and planning Experience building and maintaining a programme roadmap, including shaping and updating priorities. Ability to recommend priority changes and support approval of priority shifts through governance. Proven capability to translate scope into a delivery plan (i.e., turning agreed scope into executable work). Demand intake and scope control Strong track record running demand intake for new initiatives end‑to‑end. Ability to handle scope translation and scope change processes, including ensuring changes are managed through the right forums. Delivery execution leadership Good understanding of all LF businesses Ownership of delivery plan & milestones Experience managing dependencies across teams and delivery streams Strong delivery cadence management: sprint / release tracking and keeping progress visible. Ability to produce delivery reporting that supports governance and decision‑making. Experience owning team configuration / mobilisation decisions Risk and issue management Strong risk discipline: ability to own the programme risk register Experience creating and driving mitigation plans. Comfortable escalating risks/issues through governance when needed. Financials and benefits management Ability to contribute to and manage budget processes Proven experience doing forecasting Experience tracking benefits, including shared accountability/consultation where applicable.