AVP-Transformation and Design Enablement

Join USCB’s Value Management Office (VMO) at a pivotal moment as we scale the Ways of Working (WoW) operating model—standardizing how we plan, govern, and deliver outcomes across journeys, platforms, and practices. You’ll help translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes, strengthening traceability from investment strategies to delivery and benefits. This role offers high-visibility exposure across senior stakeholders and the chance to shape “how USCB gets work done” as WoW continues to expand across ~1,500 colleagues working in tribes and squads.

About the role

To lead the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
• Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data-driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
• Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
• Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
• Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
• Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well-facilitated portfolio management processes.
• Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data-led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
• Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls and governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.

Requirements

• Setting direction, connecting work to Barclays/USCB strategy, and keeping delivery aligned to outcomes over activity.
• Guiding multi-faceted cross-functional forums, shaping strategies, and driving clarity of accountability across constructs.
• Understanding and influencing enterprise-wide change programs on behalf of the USCB portfolio.
• Resolving cross-stream conflicts, and enabling consistent prioritization and measurement approaches.
• Designing operating model processes and governance constructs that improve transparency, predictability, and strategy-making across delivery constructs.

Skills

• Process iteration/standardization, and structured socialization through governance channels.
• Defining progress measures and improving assurance in dashboards/MI for senior forums.
• Enterprise agile/scaled agile transformation exposure and the ability to translate model values into practical BU adoption.
• Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (LEAD: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others).
• For individual contributors: lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, identify new directions for projects, and incorporate cross-functional methodologies to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; provide advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop 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 closely related to other areas, understanding how areas coordinate and contribute to organisational objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to align with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, including sensitive information or difficult content/audiences.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Pay

Base salary range: $115,000 – $155,000. This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Life insurance.
• Paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.