Workforce Development Lead

Join us as a Workforce Development Lead at Barclays, where you'll be support and implement workforce strategies that align to business goals. Leading service improvement that drive operational/process efficiency, automation, cost optimisation, and enhance employee experience. Identifies delivery risks and gaps and ensures accountability across workstreams. You’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts.

To be successful as a Workforce Development Lead, you should have experience with:

• Understands end-to-end workforce planning processes, including workforce forecasting (STP/MTP/Outlook), hiring optimisation, and organisational design. Supports delivery of workforce transformation programs, including skills of the future, technology modernisation, and new ways of working. Supporting the delivery of and providing oversight to key workforce development workstreams such as Recruitment/Recognition/Your View/Bar Raiser/Early Careers
• Ability to balance multiple competing demands, operating with pace and agility in a fast-moving environment. Ample project and resource management capabilities are key.
• Experience in supporting and influencing senior stakeholders at MD, D and VP level, with the ability to build trusted relationships, anticipate needs, maintains confidentiality, and provides guidance.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Ample analytical capability to produce, interpret and present accurate and actionable workforce data and insight. Proficiency in presentation and data visualisation (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint) is expected.
• Leading service improvement that drive operational/process efficiency, automation, cost optimisation, and enhance employee experience
• LEAD – people management experience in both matrix management as well as direct leadership

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

This role will be based in our Knutsford office.