Workforce Change & Restructuring Specialist - VP

Location: London / Radbroke / Glasgow (any of these)

Hybrid: 2 days a week in office

Length: 6 months

PAYE only

About Us:

At Barclays, our Employee Relations Workforce Change & Restructuring (ER WFC&R) team is at the heart of transforming and optimizing our global workforce. We’re dedicated to aligning our workforce with strategic goals, enhancing business performance, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards. Our vision is to deliver a streamlined, efficient, and insightful workforce change service, keeping our bank secure and ahead of the curve.

Role Overview: We are seeking dynamic individuals to join our Workforce Change and Restructuring team. In this role, you will drive and support change initiatives across Barclays’ global entities, handling projects from inception to completion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support various change programmes, including restructuring, transfers, outsourcing, and new site setups.
• Collaborate with in-country HRBPs, ER specialists, and other HR functions to deliver seamless change processes.
• Manage stakeholders.
• Manage project phases: initiation, due diligence, consultation, implementation, communication, governance, and risk management.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in workforce change and restructuring, with a track record demonstrated in your CV.
• Expertise in managing or liaising with unions, leading consultations, and handling complex workforce changes.
• Hands-on experience with TUPE projects, large-scale change programmes, and delivering international change initiatives.
• Solid understanding of employment legislation, project management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong analytical skills, with proficiency in Excel (including pivot tables, vlookups, and large data handling).

Essential Qualifications:

• Demonstrated technical skills in consultations, union negotiations, redundancies, and legal requirements.
• Resilience and ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• Experience in managing extensive data and large-scale projects.
• Hands-on experience in preparing communications and navigating complex HR workstreams.
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas.

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 measure and reward 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:

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

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.