Director, HR Business Partner

We have an excellent opportunity for a Director, HR Business Partner to join our Global HR Team. This is a permanent role and can be based in London or Glasgow.

Why this HR Director?

• Technology underpins the Barclays Group 3 Year Strategy, whether that’s keeping transactions moving, managing data, or protecting our customers. When it comes to technology, it’s happening here.
• Supporting our 48 million customers and clients worldwide takes a lot of forward thinking. It means harnessing technology to support the economy. It means making a difference to people’s lives. And it requires the maintenance and development of a global, technological infrastructure and services.
• There are around 81,000 people working for Barclays worldwide, and over a third of colleagues work in technology. We have a number of tech campuses worldwide; purpose-built strategic sites, designed specifically to promote innovation, collaboration and tech excellence.

• This role is pivotal to designing and delivering the people strategy for group shared technology, acting as the trusted advisor to the tech exco members, playing an integral role on all people related matters, raising colleague performance and customer experience.
• Partnering and delivering on the operating model, driving good OD and OE practices, co-designing the workforce strategy and underlying plan to optimise efficiency.
• Be a trusted partner to challenge and drive - supporting leadership focus on strategy and people.
• Provision of advice and counsel on an ad-hoc basis at the MD level as it relates to specific people related issues and opportunities to drive improved performance (e.g. cultural trends, senior ER).
• Be an HR thought leader across the HRBP team and into the wider HR Function.
• Developing and prioritising colleague interventions that deliver individual colleague opportunity and maximise Business performance – Key experiences needed for this role:
  • Experience partnering with Technology before with a deep understanding of the unique needs of this group
  • Organizational Design and Efficiency
  • Workforce planning
  • Agile methodology
  • Communities of practice in Engineering, Cyber, Architecture etc.
  • Transformation/change
  • People Leadership capability build
  • Talent, learning and development

Purpose of the role

To partner with senior HR business leaders to develop and implement a people strategy that enables business goals.

Accountabilities

• Design and delivery of the people strategy for their aligned portfolio of businesses, using insights to diagnose people related trends and opportunities to drive business performance.
• Cross functional collaboration to ensure delivery of the people strategy and associated HR products into the business.
• Provision of advice and counsel to the most senior business leaders on an ad-hoc basis as it relates to specific people related issues and opportunities to drive improved performance, whether in relation to activity driven at the Group level which falls outside of the People Strategy, or opportunities identified within business (e.g. cultural trends, senior ER related issue, talent skill gaps/hiring needs etc.). Use of organisation effectiveness principles, partner with senior business leaders to ensure structures are organised in a way to deliver efficiency aligned to strategic objectives.
• Participation in HR product design, using commercial acumen, deep business knowledge and external insights and represent HR service and products back into the business, using relationships and business knowledge to ensure products and processes drive the desired outcome at the local business level.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.