Project Planner

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Project Planner to join our UK Cloud and Infrastructure delivery team. You will lead planning sessions, build detailed plans using MSP, and drive risk assessment across multiple programs and client environments.

You’ll mentor PMs and PMOs, ensuring consistent planning practices, data integrity, and effective governance. Hybrid working across UK offices and client sites is offered, with pre-employment checks and SC clearance requirements.

Qualifications

• Significant demonstrable experience with project planning software.
• Ability to create and manage complex project plans and schedules.
• Strong mentoring and advisory skills for PMO teams.

Responsibilities

• Outline project scope against contracts.
• Create project plans using MSP.
• Identify and evaluate project risks.
• Ensure the PMO has comprehensive project data to improve delivery.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert in Project Planning and Microsoft Project.
• Provide mentoring and advice to Project Managers and PMO on planning.

Skills

Project planning

Risk management

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Microsoft Project

MSP

Job description

About The Job You’re Considering

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Project Management Team supporting the Cloud and Infrastructure business in the UK.

We have an exciting 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 be leading planning sessions and creating detailed project plans for the delivery of technology enabled transformation projects across many sectors and environments, including our ever-growing Cyber practise. The team are based across the UK, with a variety of skillsets from all-rounders to subject matter experts, such as the Project Planner role. What they all have in common is the desire to deliver excellence to our varied customer base supporting the business aims and goals of those organisations.

The successful candidate will be expected to work flexibly across internal and client environments. Security clearance will be required. Any specific location, travel or hybrid-working expectations should be confirmed for the relevant assignment.

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

We’ll give you access to the training and support needed to continue developing as a Project Planner and grow your career. You’ll have a hugely positive impact in this role and will be responsible for all aspects of project planning from

• Outlining the scope of projects against contracts


• Creating project plans using MSP


• Identifying and evaluating risks


• Ensuring that the Project Management team with comprehensive project data to help them deliver more effectively.


• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert in Project Planning and Microsoft Project


• Providing mentoring and advice to Project Managers and PMO on the subject of Project Planning.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your Skills And Experience

You’ll be driven and committed with a strong team ethic plus a passion for technology and its power to transform the way organisations work and behave. Skills and Experience

• Significant demonstratable experience using planning software such as Microsoft Projec


• Build plans to support complex Projects and Programmes through Sales/Bids and Delivery and maintain and track activities on complex Project and Programme through the delivery lifecycle.


• Be able to create a plan(s) that contain tasks, milestones, Phases, Summary tasks and be able to outline level all the previous mentioned items.


• Be able to create a Master Plan that contains constituent project plans that are linked dynamically.


• Be able to identify key deliverables and dependencies


• Be able to customise a plan using filters, views and groups to assist delivery.


• Be able to create visuals based on the plan to show 1 page views.


• Lead Planning sessions and identification and design of appropriate work breakdown structures.


• Promote Planning Best Practice standards on all engagements


• Scenario Planning, Critical Path Analysis, Milestone Reporting, Inter-dependency tracking and impact analysis.


• Promote a standard approach to planning using templates and best practices.


• Produce required resource profiles from Microsoft Project to support resource onboarding and tracking.


• Peer review of existing plans against standards and best practice and provide guidance to colleagues on planning and use of Microsoft Project and assist Engagement Managers in risk identification.


• Confidence and gravitas in front of clients, project team and 3rd parties and experience of preparing and presenting project reports for internal and external stakeholders.

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 and pre-employment checks

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.

Flexibility to work your way

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.

Your wellbeing

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. 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.

Shape your path

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.

Shared energy

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why should you 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 over 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 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com