Senior Project Manager

The Job on Offer

To work as part of the Insights and Data (I&D) Delivery Management practice which specialize in data and information led projects and programmes. Your role will be to manage projects for clients that are contracted on a fixed price and time & materials basis.  Clients will be in any sector and projects managed can be of different degrees of complexity or size. Typically technologies will be around bespoke and packaged based products and will cover a broad spectrum of the major technologies. Project management methodologies used will be structured or agile and experience of managing projects using either type of methodology is expected. At Capgemini part of the Project Manager role includes commercial management so you will be expected to manage project financials both internally and externally with the client.

Your Role

You will take ownership for delivering project for clients including all aspects of project management and be accountable for the budget and outcomes.
•    Take handover from Sales during the sales to delivery handover and define a project plan acceptable to the client and within the constraints of the contract and build a resource profile aligned to the project plan with an appropriate pyramid and on-shore/off-shore ratio.
•    Manage projects day-to-day ensuring that risks, issues and dependencies are recorded, escalated and reported as appropriate.
•    Manage daily project activities ensuring that on-shore and off-shore resources are aligned and working towards the common goal.
•    Complete project status reports and present project status (including financials) at the monthly internal project reviews.
•    Ensure that invoices are raised and cash collected in a timely manner, raise change requests to the contract as required and provide accurate project forecasts.
•    Build key client relationships and improve project profitability by selling additional work and/or resources into the client and contribute to the I&D engagement management community.

Your Profile

•    You will have substantial experience of day-to-day management of project teams at multiple locations both on-shore and off-shore.
•    You will be comfortable managing technical resources, be able to grasp technical issues and to guide your team to resolve technical project issues.
•    Projects delivered will include any or all of the following: data warehouse, data analysis, master data management, data science, data migration, structured & self-service reporting.
•    You will have experience in delivering projects based on both structured and agile methodologies and experience of the role of a Scrum Master would be particularly valuable.
•    You will have built sustainable relationships with customers at middle-top and top management level, utilising these for successful delivery and in seeking out further business opportunities.
•    Recognised both internally and by clients for providing effective relationship and commercial management in complex delivery and sales environments and capable of developing and delivering formal presentations to senior clients in both delivery and sales situations.

Why Capgemini is Unique

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance.  Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.  All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. ​

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas.  We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Get The Future You Want

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology  can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.  Capgemini. Get The Future You Want.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 300,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50 year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.