VP - Head of Change

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. 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.

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as a VP – Head of Change, India, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Compliance team supporting the broader Transformation and Change portfolio, with a specific initial focus on local support to coordinate the Compliance build out in India in 2025, drive key programmes in our digital and simplification agenda. Key responsibilities will include supporting the build out of a Compliance presence in India and the broader functional transformational objectives. You'll need to deliver the Compliance Automate Core Process projects and the resulting process reengineering, automation and change opportunities. You must provide PMO support on the governance and reporting requirements to Group, particularly for Automate Core Processes (ACP).You will play a crucial role in stakeholder management, building effective relationships and promoting collaborative communication. The team facilitates decision-making processes and supports transformation projects by incorporating stakeholder inputs.

To be successful as a VP – Compliance Head of Change, India, you should have experience with:

• Stakeholder Management: Experience in managing relationships with stakeholders, particularly within the Compliance department and global Technology teams
• Ability to handle Process and Technology Change effectively via the groups define Change Management Delivery Standards (GMDS)
• Business Transformation, transition experience for ideally Compliance or finance process.
• Locational strategy experience for setting up new/transition business process from one location to other
• On-shoring and off-shoring business process experience
• Change Management: Facilitation of change management activities. Management of risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Project and Process Management: Experience in managing change projects and conducting process reviews.
• Organization design, specific experience within financial services and ideally within the Compliance field.
• Proficiency in both written and verbal communication: Ability to explain complex concepts to various levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical audiences, senior management, project teams, and external partners.
• Demonstratable experience in people leadership with the ability to drive performance and create a culture of continuous personal development and growth

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Decision making with active critical thinking.
• Any Postgraduate/MBA with experience working in Banking institutions
• Change Management qualifications (PMP, AMP)
• Experience in delivery large scale programme.
• Strong acumen in change management principles (I.e Agile and Waterfall methodology)

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.

The location for this role is Pune, IN.