DEI Partner - VP

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Partner
Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays DEI Partner, you will become a strategic partner and trusted advisor, within a defined business entity. You will seek out opportunities to improve strategy and business outcomes, driving the progress for our multi-year strategy and ambitions, including developing, monitoring and reporting on indicators of success and working to remove barriers. This role will allow you to enhance our culture, support community engagement and enable us to make better business decisions as a partner to our customers and clients globally.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are 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. We’re 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. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

•    Acting as a credible and commercial partner to negotiate with and influence a wide range of stakeholder groups
•    Leveraging data-based insights both internally and externally to determine opportunities and interventions that drive progress against the global DEI strategy and ambitions 
•    Researching and developing roadmaps in partnership with HR transaction cycles and the business, and measuring progress against desired outcomes and our external benchmarks
•    Applying professional judgement and curiosity, backed up with data and insight to produce a clear business case and narrative that can inform sound commercial decisions
•    Driving collaboration and knowledge-sharing across the function, business and region, connecting people and information from a range of internal and external sources 
•    Leading and managing projects and programmes of work both regionally and globally across the intersectional DEI agendas, councils and task forces
•    Building and maintaining relationships with external parties, DEI external partners and industry taskforces to develop and supporting the DEI agenda and strategy 
•    Leveraging internal and external partnerships to identify opportunities and inform solution design

What we’re looking for:

•    Stakeholder management, consultation and influencing at a senior level 
•    Solid analytical, leveraging insightful data to solve problems and influence decisions
•    Solid written, verbal and presentation skills
•    Great collaborator and diplomat who thrives in bringing people of all levels together

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Experience in operating in a matrix environment with the ability to balance commercial, client, and regulatory needs across businesses and geographies
•    Ability to develop HR strategy and act proactively to drive implementation, using creativity in approach
•    Ability to think innovatively and forward to find solution to optimize and develop the business (needs) as well as ability to remove barriers to change
•    Politically astute and able to understand the dynamics of a large, complex organisation

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment. 

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Salary : $73,300 - $92,800