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Lean Portfolio Manager

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted June 15, 2026
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Join us at Barclays as a Lean Portfolio Manager, where you will play a critical role in driving large-scale change and transformation across a complex business portfolio. Operating at a senior level, you will collaborate closely with Product Owners and Technical Delivery Leads to shape, prioritise, and deliver strategic initiatives that bring value to customers quickly and efficiently. This role requires a strong focus on data-driven decision making, enabling you to influence outcomes, optimise productivity, and continuously improve ways of working. You will champion Agile and SAFe methodologies, ensuring change is broken down into manageable increments and delivered at pace. Working with senior stakeholders, you will challenge, align, and guide decision-making to drive meaningful transformation. This is a highly visible role that demands leadership, resilience, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Job Responsibility

  • 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
  • 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

Requirements

  • Senior Stakeholder Management - Proven ability to engage, influence, and challenge stakeholders at senior levels, aligning priorities across business and technology
  • Data Analytics & Insight-Driven Decision Making - Strong analytical capability to interpret data, measure performance, and drive informed decision-making
  • Agile Methodologies - Deep understanding of Agile frameworks, with the ability to embed and optimise Agile delivery practices at scale
  • Change & Transformation Expertise - Demonstrable experience leading large-scale change initiatives, delivering continuous improvement and measurable business value

Nice to have

  • SAFe Accreditation - Formal certification demonstrating expertise in scaled Agile frameworks and enterprise-level delivery
  • VP-Level Experience - Experience operating at a senior leadership level, influencing strategic direction and decision-making
  • Customer Care Transformation Knowledge - Understanding of customer-centric transformation initiatives, improving customer experience and service delivery
  • Seasoned Change Professional - Track record of delivering complex, multi-year transformation programmes with sustained impact
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