Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Glasgow

Contract: 6 months (PAYE)

About the Role 

We are seeking a delivery-focused Project Manager with a proven track record of leading complex technology and business change initiatives within a financial services environment. In this role, you will be expected to quickly establish delivery structures, governance, and accountability across multiple teams, bringing vital clarity to programs that involve significant stakeholder engagement, dependencies, and delivery challenges.

Key Responsibilities & Expectations

• Project Delivery & Governance: Implement robust RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, governance controls, and executive reporting.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Drive planning and dependency management across various teams and priorities, utilizing your experience in both Agile and hybrid delivery environments.

• Stakeholder Management: Build alignment and collaborate effectively across Business, Product, Technology, and Operations.

• Technical Oversight: Leverage your technical background to navigate the project management, change, and implementation risks associated with key technologies used at Barclays, primarily Java, React, Android, and iOS.

What We Are Looking For

• Relevant Initiative Experience: You should have a strong background in supporting customer or platform migrations, regulatory/compliance-driven change, or digital channel and customer-facing technology initiatives. Transformation projects requiring improved governance and delivery rigor are a must.

• Technical Acumen: Your background should be more weighted toward being a Technical PM rather than a Business PM, demonstrating a strong ability to understand software development lifecycles and modern tech stacks.

• Proactive Self-Starter Mentality: We need a leader with an outcome-focused mindset rather than someone who simply reports status. You must proactively identify and resolve risks before escalation is required, introduce governance without being directed, and take complete ownership of delivery challenges.

What Success Looks Like Within your first few months, you will have successfully established clear delivery plans, improved the visibility of risks and dependencies, strengthened governance, increased stakeholder confidence, and significantly accelerated progress across your aligned projects.

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays vision and goals.

Hybrid Working

Barclays is currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Barclays is flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. Barclays also has a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there’s discounts at heaps of high street shops, restaurants and entertainment - from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants.