Senior Manager - Technical Project Manager - Digital Acceleration
At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.
By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.
About Capgemini Invent
As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.
Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, 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 340,000 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 in 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability.
An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success.When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.
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An overview of the role
Organisations face significant challenges to transform their business in adopting new technologies to remain ahead of their competition. Our clients are looking for expertise from Capgemini Invent to help shape their transformation journey and enable them to adapt, adjust and align with all the complex changes within their respective markets.
We are looking for talented individuals to join the Digital Acceleration consulting team within Business Technology and help take our large-scale corporate clients through the transformative technology journey from strategy to implementation.We have a requirement for Technical Project Managers at varying levels of seniority, from Senior Consultant level through to Senior Manager level.
As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
- Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
- Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
- Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.
Why You?
We are looking for the following core capabilities from Senior Consultant level candidates:
- Managing and leading small project teams and interfacing with third party vendors to deliver discrete changes into production with good outcomes for the client
- Ability to architect a delivery solution using either Waterfall or Agile for specific features or supporting the delivery of one or more epics
- Leveraging strong delivery expertise and translating this into opportunities to sell future Capgemini Invent work
- Ability to interface with client stakeholders across a broad level (junior through to senior), communicatin status and articulating effectively at decision-making meetings
- Ability to translate technology change into understandable artefacts so that business / product owners can assess impact to the operating model
- Demonstration of ability to deliver within timescales, with evidence of budgetary responsibilities
- Demonstrating the attributes required to be successful in a fast-paced Consulting environment
In addition to the capabilities mentioned above, we are looking for an additional set of experiences for candidates applying to the Senior Technical Project Manager (Senior Manager) level:
- Evidence of taking the business vision / programme vision and articulating a delivery rollout plan for C-Suite stakeholders, and collaborating with key programme decision-makers to agree forward planning
- Evidence of demonstrating delivery excellence, with examples of managing and implementing disruptive digital transformations / product migrations / Cloud transformation initiatives which have had material business impacts
- Evidence of co-ordinating / managing teams of up to 50 FTEs across either large scale transformative or migration programmes (across Financial Services, Government, Utilities, Consumer Products, Retail, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Telecommunication or Media)
- Able to manage and lead multiple workstreams and orchestrate delivery with internal and external vendors in uncertain / challenging environments to bridge the gap between IT and the business
- Able to architect an end-to-end delivery solution across classical (Waterfall) and new (SAFe / Scaled Agile) methodologies, from the planning and design phase through to implementation and BAU
- Evidence of team building and increasing the capabilities of junior associate consultant / consultant resources
- Evidence of career progression and expansion of roles / responsibilities as your career has advanced
- Be responsible for developing our business, carrying a personal sales target of £1m
- Develop our next generation of technical programme / project managers through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching and learning development
Why is Capgemini unique?
At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.
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.
Capgemini Invent UK is a winner at the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards for the 4th year running, placing in the top 50 employers in its list of the Best Places to Work in 2024.
The work
No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.
Collaboration and Innovation
We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you’ll get to know the customer’s needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It’ll help you discover unexpected answers together.
Learning and Development
There’s an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you’ll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference.Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all of our teams.
CSR
We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year.When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.
Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.
We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.
In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.
More information is at available at: https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/service/invent/