As a Digital Portfolio Manager, you will help to ensure our technology projects deliver real value and align with our digital strategy. The evolution of the digital offering and the banking app are a key strategic focus for BUK with an exciting transformation agenda planned for 2026 and the next three years.
This role includes working closely with business and technology lab teams to ensure their roadmaps deliver the strategic objectives (OKRs), including customer and financial benefits, and all within agreed costs. You will be reporting to senior leadership, helping with business cases, managing stakeholders, overseeing the funding process, tracking progress, and ensuring projects align with regulatory and compliance requirements.
This role can be based in London (1CP), or Knutsford.
Qualifications
- Have experience in managing a portfolio of technology change delivery work or a transformation programme
- Experience in financial management such as forecasting, budgeting, tracking costs and benefits
- Experience in bidding for funding and developing business cases
- Analytical background and experience in reporting, with strong Excel skills
- Ability to manage and influence stakeholders
- Change delivery frameworks – understand Agile Lab models, roadmaps, and productivity measures
Additional Skills
- Knowledge of using JIRA and Confluence
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge and understanding of regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA, Consumer Duty, and data compliance requirements)
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To 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.
- 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross‑functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing 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 that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. ‘Complex’ information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders 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.
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