About The Job You're Considering
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 Skills and Experience
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.
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.
What Does 'Get The Future You Want' Mean To You
You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we 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.
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
Why You Should Consider Capgemini
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.
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 organisation of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-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 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
