Barclays Looking for Senior Project Manager at Wilmington, DE Full Time

As a Barclays Senior Project Manager this is an exciting opportunity where you will manage complex, highly visible programs or projects that cut across the business, operations, and technology by developing a plan, analyzing potential risks and benefits, working with your business partners to showcase your talent and land on the best solutions, and driving your team to deliver through completion.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. 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.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Managing large projects with multiple business, operations, and technology stakeholders
• Organizing project delivery cadence and Supporting effective discussions with senior leadership and project team
• Coordinating overall project documentation across all bank functions including requirements, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, weekly status reports, etc
• Defining, creating, and updating project plan. Tracking upcoming deliverables and ensure completion of project milestones and tasks
• Performing daily administrative tasks including time management, training and other duties as required
• Ensuring projects are completed according to time and budget schedules, and that objectives conform to line of business’ overall standards, operations purposes

What we’re looking for:

• Significant years project management experience, previous experience in managing project and, handling teams
• Understanding to manage and influence resources to deliver to intended outcomes in a matrixed environment
• Demonstrated experience complex programs/initiatives, involving multiple business/operations/technology workstreams; third party engagements a plus
• Ability to develop project plans, manage specific and team deadlines and goals

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Proven Ability to effectively handle through ambiguity
• Understanding to develop and deploy project metrics
• PMP/PMI certification, LEAN or Six Sigma a plus
• Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, VISIO

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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