Senior IT Project Manager

Capgemini; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Senior Project/Programme Manager in the UK to lead large IT and technology delivery across public sector and other clients. This hybrid role combines office, client site and home working, with pre-employment checks to complete.

You will guide multi-supplier teams, maintain schedules, and drive value delivery while maturing agile practices. You will engage senior stakeholders, manage budgets and change control, and demonstrate commercial acumen through project proposals and

Qualifications

• Senior IT/technology project delivery experience.
• Proven ability to manage end-to-end delivery in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery practices and matrix/multi-supplier setups.
• Excellent stakeholder communication with senior stakeholders.
• Leadership of multi-discipline teams to high performance.
• Experience forecasting budgets and change control against a business case.
• Demonstrated financial acumen including P&L accountability.
• Proven risk identification and mitigation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of large, complex IT/technology projects and programmes end-to-end.
• Provide strong leadership to multi-supplier teams in matrix environments.
• Develop and maintain schedules, manage risks and dependencies, remove blockers.
• Build relationships with stakeholders at all levels and ensure alignment.
• Drive continuous improvement and agile delivery practices across teams.
• Forecast budgets, ensure value delivery, and manage change control.
• Develop commercial proposals and work with various contract types.
• Report clearly to senior stakeholders to support decisions.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality standards and timelines.
• Foster a productive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Budget management

Risk management

Planning

Commercial acumen

P&L accountability

Job description

About The Job You’re Considering

As a Senior Project/Programme Manager, you will lead the delivery of large, complex IT and technology projects and programmes for our public sector and other clients. You will be responsible for managing high-visibility deliveries across the full project lifecycle, from initiation to end-to-end delivery, ensuring successful outcomes in dynamic, multi-supplier and matrix environments. You will provide strong leadership to multi-discipline and multi-supplier teams, foster a collaborative and high-performing culture, and engage with senior stakeholders to deliver value and drive continuous improvement. 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

• Lead the delivery of large and complex IT/technology projects and programmes across the full project lifecycle (end-to-end), ensuring delivery to agreed scope, quality, time, and budget.
• Provide strong leadership to multi-discipline and multi-supplier teams, motivating and guiding them to achieve high performance in matrix environments.
• Develop and maintain project/programme schedules, establish delivery rhythms, manage risks and dependencies, and proactively remove blockers.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment and successful delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency through agile delivery practices and lessons learned.
• Manage projects/programmes in line with budget(s), ensuring accurate forecasting, value delivery, and effective change control.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen, including developing commercial proposals and working with various contract types (e.g., Time & Materials, fixed price).
• Provide clear reporting and data to support communication with senior stakeholders and support decision-making.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality standards appropriate to their stage and are completed on time.
• Foster a productive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment that supports professional growth and innovation.

Your Skills And Experience

• Proven experience delivering IT/technology projects and programmes at a senior level, ideally within large and complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large and complex projects/programmes across the full project lifecycle and end-to-end delivery.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery practices, project/programme lifecycle management, and experience working in matrix and multi-supplier team environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership in motivating and guiding multi-discipline and multi-supplier teams to achieve high performance.
• Experience managing projects/programmes in line with budget(s), ensuring accurate forecasting, value delivery, and effective change control.
• Demonstrate financial acumen, including P&L accountability and budget management.
• Proven ability to identify, assess, and proactively manage project and programme risks, implementing effective mitigation strategies and ensuring timely resolution of issues.
• Exceptional planning skills, with a proven ability to develop robust project and programme plans that align with organisational objectives and ensure successful delivery.

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 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.

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 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. Make it real | www.capgemini.com