Business Agility Lead

5 months ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Barclays Full time

Business Agility Lead, Barclays UK Transformation

London, Knutsford, Northampton, Glasgow

About Barclays UK Transformation

Barclays UK Transformation serves to deliver our strategy according to the 3Cs:

- Customer - Providing excellent customer service; banking with Barclays is safe, reliable, easy and rewarding. Offering banking services that meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s customers and clients. Guiding customers to make money work for them.
- Community - Being there when and where our customers need us, offering trusted support and expertise in the moments that matter. Adapting how things are done in response to a fast paced ever changing world. Making the communities in which our customers live and work better tomorrow than they are today. Seeking out opportunities for an inclusive and sustainable future.
- Colleague - A vibrant team of colleagues who work with precision when putting the customer at the heart of achieving success together. Going the extra mile is in our colleague DNA. Building a Barclays team that represents the customers and community we serve.

What will you be doing
- The Business Agility Lead is responsible for leading and developing our deep Agile experts and accelerators, driving on-the-ground capability uplift, maturity action plans and identifying deeper interventions.
- This role will directly support the ‘how’ of delivery of the overall Barclays UK (BUK) Transformation by owning and driving on-the-ground adoption of our Method standards, this role will be crucial in ensuring BUK delivers against its mission of being customer-obsessed, delivering iterative value at pace, while de-risking execution.
- Partner with POD Leaders and POD Agile champions on maturity action plans and interventions, informed by and driving embed ways of working scorecard insights, self-assessments and wider insights.
- Develop a team of expert Agile practitioners to scale our Agile capability across BUK, successfully blending industry best practises (SAFe, Agile at Scale etc) with internal capabilities to create an effective, scalable model.
- Act as a thought leader to guide a range of stakeholders through techniques and planning methodologies, and proactively challenge the status quo where work practices can be made more simple and straightforward.
- Inspire and act as the go-to person for Agile practices & strategies to help integrate Agile & Lean principles across the organisation, fostering a continuous improvement mindset and behaviours in groups and teams, creating a consistent, compelling vision for Agility.
- Lead all other agile accelerator networks, and drive a relentless feedback loop to our capability uplift and culture plans, as well as interventions team.
- Be a strong team player within the Execution Method team, collaborating with a wide range of colleagues to support the full portfolio of ways of working activity across BUK.
- Responsible for building relationships across BUK PODs, EPs and shared teams. Interacting with senior internal stakeholders, the role holder will be required to show strong negotiation and influencing skills, working cross-functionally to champion the vision for our ways of working transformation.

What we’re looking for
- Balanced approach between driving industry standards and taking pragmatic steps to mature capability.
- Natural communicator, able to converse and ‘win hearts and minds’ across a range of organisation levels and Agile experience.
- Able to translate method theory into practical tangible examples of customer value, and story tell around these successes.
- Creative and experimental approach, with the ability to identify opportunities for rapid proving of value before scaling more widely.
- Highly motivated, proactive and adaptable, with a growth mindset and a passion for agile delivery and continuous improvement
- Possess a high level of analytic skills, problem solving, management of data and insight, and the ability to resolve a wide variety of complex business problems at pace.
- Experience defining and implementing Agile operating models within a complex, fast changing environment.
- Has experience working with non-agile teams and translating industry standard Agile methodologies to business stakeholders.
- Excellent written/verbal communication and presentations skills targeting various stakeholders and senior management.
- Proven track record in Lean Portfolio Management and driving planning and prioritisation processes.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, detail-oriented, with excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to achieve quality results in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment requiring flexibility / adaptability to changeable directives.

Skills that will help you in your role
- Experienced practitioner in value-based management techniques
- Strong conceptual thinker with ability to translate this into pragmatic recommendations
- Deep understanding of Agile,

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