Managing Project Manager

About the job you're considering

We're excited to offer an opportunity to join our Project Management Team, supporting the Cloud and Infrastructure business in the UK.

As part of the Engagement Management Community, you'll lead the delivery of technology-enabled transformation projects across a variety of sectors and environments-including our rapidly growing Cyber practice. Our team is distributed across the UK and brings together a wide range of skills, from generalists to subject matter experts. What unites us is a shared commitment to delivering excellence and supporting the goals of the organizations we work with.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

As a Project Manager, you'll receive the training and support needed to grow your career and make a meaningful impact. You'll be responsible for:

• Leading projects and programmes to deliver in line with contractual and financial commitments
• The delivery and commercial relationship with the client
• Building strong client relationships and exceeding expectations - including in difficult situations and being able to have complicated and politically complex delivery and commercial discussions
• Meeting engagement targets and identifying opportunities to generate additional value
• Identifying business opportunities and driving sales opportunities
• Acting as a programme or portfolio manager - including being able to manage projects alongside other senior staff in Capgemini
• Ensuring adherence to project management methodologies and financial controls
• Working closely with the technical team - and ability to support the technical governance
• Recovering failing projects in line with contractual / financial commitments
• Working with global delivery teams from a number of geographies in (mainly in Europe, USA and India).
• Managing the people on your project to ensure that they deliver to time, quality and cost targets
• Manage people within the wider organisation to provide coaching and help them to learn from your experience
• Take part in improvement initiatives across the organisation to help drive better ways of working

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

We're looking for individuals who are:

• Motivated and collaborative, with a passion for technology and its potential to transform organisations
• Experienced in managing projects through the full delivery lifecycle, meeting agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards - with a background of formal governance including traditional project management (waterfall) and agile methodologies.
• Extensive management and leadership skills - including in difficult situations
• able to demonstrate excellent stakeholder management skills with an ability to operate at board level - including in difficult situations
• Able to induce confidence in senior management regarding your judgement around the project / programme / portfolio finances, solution and commercials
• Experienced in managing external clients though fixed price and T&M contract types.
• Skilled in delivering projects aligned with financial / contractual obligations
• Familiar with requirements gathering, design, build, and implementation
• Able to identify potential sales opportunities, develop the relationships to drive sales and knowledgeable about the sales process and experienced in managing bids
• Have experience of supporting, mentoring and coaching project / engagement managers
• Staff management experience

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
-Declare they have a disability, and
-Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real - what does it mean for you?

You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
You will reimagine what's possible: creating value for the world's leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.
Capgemini. Make it real.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We 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. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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