Project Manager - CDD Modernisation

Join Barclays as a Project Manager within the Customer Due Diligence Modernisation team, where you'll play a key role in driving change and delivering complex change and transformation initiatives. You will lead the execution of large-scale projects, and support additional initiatives, gaining exposure to a broader portfolio.

To be successful in this role, you should have

• Transformational Change Delivery Expertise

Proven ability to deliver complex, large‑scale change initiatives on time and within budget, particularly within technology‑enabled environments

• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies

Practical experience working within Agile project delivery structures

• Strong Stakeholder & Communication Skills

Ability to influence senior stakeholders, clearly articulate status, and manage cross‑functional relationships effectively

Other highly valued skills include

• Customer Due Diligence / Financial Crime Domain Knowledge

Understanding of CDD, onboarding, or financial crime prevention processes

• Experience with AI, Automation, or Data‑Driven Solutions

Exposure to modern technical delivery approaches such as AI, DevOps, and automation

• Project & Risk Management Capability

Demonstrated experience managing scope, risks, issues, and resources for high‑value projects, ensuring governance and control standards are met

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford, Glasgow or Northampton

Purpose of the role

Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus.

Accountabilities

• Scope Management: Manage a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Strategic Focus: Operate more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
• Time Horizon: Work with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
• Stakeholder Management: Primarily manage stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
• Risk and Issue Management: Focus on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
• Resource Management: Manage resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
• Financial Management: Focus on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
• Metrics: Measure success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
• Change Management: Manage changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.