Barclays
Workforce Planning Project Manager
Role : Workforce Planning Project Manager
Location : Canary Wharf, London
Duration : 6 months
Overview of the role:
This is a high-visibility, transformation project in a complex, regulated corporate banking environment. Operating as an individual contributor (no direct reports), the role partners closely with business management, HR, Finance, and Corporate Strategy to assess current capabilities, build future workforce blueprints, optimize location strategies, and implement target operating models.
Key skills:
Strategic Workforce & Operating Model Design: Deep expertise in workforce planning, target operating model (TOM) design, organizational reshaping, and location strategy.
Financial & Cost Modeling: Strong capability in workforce analytics, headcount forecasting, recruitment profile mapping, and cost modeling.
Senior Stakeholder Influence: Proven track record of advising, influencing, and aligning senior leaders, specifically at the Director and Managing Director (MD) level.
Governance & Forum Leadership: Evidenced success in establishing project governance frameworks and chairing multi-stakeholder forums to drive consensus and sign-off.
Industry & Methodologies: Proven background in regulated financial services (Corporate Banking strongly preferred), backed by recognized project management credentials (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
Design Future Workforce Architecture: Assess existing capability baselines, identify capability and skill gaps, and define the future-state workforce structure and location roadmap.
Deliver Workforce Cost & Headcount Modeling: Build and manage data-driven headcount models, recruitment plans, and cost forecasts in close partnership with HR and Finance.
Lead Project Governance & Chair Forums: Establish end-to-end governance frameworks, track milestones and dependencies, and chair regular steering forums and working groups across key business functions.
Engage Executive Leadership: Prepare executive-ready materials and business cases to guide strategic decision-making and secure buy-in across MD and Director-level stakeholders.
Drive Transformation Alignment: Embed with the business management change function to align workforce restructuring with broader business objectives, operational standards, and regulatory requirements.
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.