Lean Portfolio Manager

About the Opportunity

Join us as a Lean Portfolio Manager at Barclays, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping and guiding portfolio strategy from vision through to delivery. You will ensure strategic intent flows consistently across activities, enabling value‑based portfolio decisions through clear, pre‑established decision criteria. You will establish and maintain robust metrics and value‑tracking mechanisms to provide stakeholders with transparent, real‑time portfolio insights. The role will involve implementing Lean governance standards, managing capacity allocation, and driving continuous improvement across delivery. Working in close partnership with Business and Technology leadership, you will foster shared ownership, align priorities, and embed consistent ways of working to maximise value delivery across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritisation
• Support effective governance of the portfolio
• Monitor portfolio performance
• Facilitate management of the portfolio Book of Work
• Oversight of change delivery
• Review, resolve, manage, and escalate portfolio risks and issues
• Engage and influence stakeholders
• Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise

About You

To be successful as a Lean Portfolio Manager, you should have:

• Proven experience in portfolio prioritisation
• Great risk awareness and control mindset
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and engagement skills
• An Agile mindset
• Solid data management and data manipulation capabilities
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience using Jira and related Agile delivery tools

Eligibility

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) accreditation or equivalent certification
• SAFe/Agile Product Management or Product Owner certification
• Experience in Product Management within an Agile or SAFe environment
• Experience as a SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) or understanding of the RTE role

Benefits

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

About Company

This role can be based in either Knutsford, London, Glasgow, or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To support the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organization's strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Facilitate portfolio prioritisation
• Support effective governance of the portfolio
• Monitor portfolio performance
• Facilitate management of the portfolio Book of Work
• Oversight of change delivery
• Review, resolve, manage, and escalate portfolio risks and issues
• Engage and influence stakeholders
• Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise

Assistant Vice President Expectations

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required 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.