Digital Portfolio Manager

About the Opportunity

hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. 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.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with business and technology lab teams to ensure roadmaps deliver strategic objectives (OKRs)
• Reporting to senior leadership, helping with business cases, managing stakeholders, overseeing funding process, tracking progress, and ensuring projects align with regulatory and compliance requirements

About You

To be successful as a Digital Portfolio Manager, you should have experience with:

• Managing a portfolio of technology change delivery work or a transformation programme
• Financial management such as forecasting, budgeting, tracking costs and benefits
• Bidding for funding and developing business cases
• Analytical background and experience in reporting, with strong Excel skills
• Managing and influencing stakeholders
• Change delivery frameworks

Eligibility

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Knowledge of using JIRA and Confluence
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA, Consumer Duty, and data compliance requirements)

Benefits

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

About Company

This role can be based in London (1CP), Knutsford, Glasgow, or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To drive the success of the commercial banking segment through market analysis, product development, sales and relationship management, risk management, and performance.

Accountabilities

• Execution of market research
• Development of appropriate pricing models
• Development, implementation, and management of innovative financial solutions
• Identification and forging of strategic partnerships
• Management of key stakeholder relationships
• Development and implementation of sales strategies
• Monitoring of key leading and lagging metrics

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 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 behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

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 organization 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.