Senior Programme Manager

Capgemini; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to deliver data projects for clients across sectors. You will own projects from initiation through delivery, including budgetary control, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership across multiple locations.

The role involves working with data platforms and analytics, exploring AI opportunities, and applying structured or agile methodologies to meet client goals in a hybrid work environment in the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering data projects with budget responsibility.
• Experience leading multi-location technical teams.
• Knowledge of data platforms, analytics and reporting.
• Experience with AI concepts in delivery context.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage complex medium/large scale projects or workstreams.
• Lead programme portfolio, aligning with strategic business goals.
• Produce project status reports including financials.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting and resource planning.
• Build client relationships to improve profitability.
• Apply agile, waterfall or hybrid methodologies as needed.
• Demonstrate understanding of data platforms and analytics.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI and advanced analytics to improve outcomes.

Skills

Programme management

Public sector projects

AI in delivery

Agile and hybrid

Stakeholder communication

Cross-location leadership

Job description

The Focus Of Your Role

To work as part of the Insights and Data (I&D) Engagement Management practice which specialise in data and information led projects and programmes. Your role will be to manage projects for clients across varying sectors and projects managed can be of different degrees of complexity or size.

The Focus Of Your Role

To work as part of the Insights and Data (I&D) Engagement Management practice which specialise in data and information led projects and programmes. Your role will be to manage projects for clients across varying sectors and projects managed can be of different degrees of complexity or size. Technologies will focus on bespoke and packaged Data Analytics and AI solutions, covering a wide range of major platforms. Project management methodologies used will be structured or agile and experience of managing projects using either type of methodology is expected.

Please Note

Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, must be eligible 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.

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).

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.

What You Will Do

You will take ownership for delivering data projects for clients including all aspects of project management and be accountable for the budget and outcomes.

• Define and manage complex medium/large scale projects or defined workstreams – Align plans acceptable to the client and within the constraints of the contract ensuring project activities that risks, issues and dependencies are recorded, escalated and reported as appropriate.
• As a Programme Manager, work as overall programme lead, directing and overseeing a portfolio of projects, aligning them with strategic business goals to deliver integrated business value. Responsible for cross-functional team leadership, stakeholder communication, and mitigating risks across multiple workstreams.
• Complete project status reports and present project status (including financials) at the monthly internal project reviews.
• Manage project budgeting, forecasting and resource planning. Submit contract change requests as needed.
• Build key client relationships and improve project profitability by selling additional work and/or resources into the client.
• Implement project management methodologies (agile, waterfall, or hybrid models) based on client needs and project goals to effectively coordinate delivery teams and ensure alignment with stakeholder expectations.
• Demonstrate growing understanding of data platforms, analytics and reporting.
• Support the identification of opportunities to apply AI and advanced analytics to improve client outcomes, project efficiency and value realisation.

What You’ll Bring

You will be an exemplary Programme Manager:

• You will have substantial experience of day-to-day management of technical project teams at multiple locations.
• Extensive public sector project experience, including work on Security Cleared programmes.
• 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 demonstrate a strong understanding of AI concepts within delivery contexts, including how AI solutions are designed, governed, deployed and operated at scale, even if not acting in a hands-on technical role.
• You will have experience in delivering projects based on both structured and agile methodologies. Experience of the role or managing of Scrum Masters would be particularly valuable.
• You will be able to demonstrate that you have commercial experience that includes managing projects based on both fixed price and time & materials contracts.
• You are likely to have identified and taken the lead in major pursuits resulting in new or additional business.
• Comfortable within a consulting led sales model.
• Architect innovative solutions which delivers value to clients whilst handling internal risk.
• Able to lead and guide clients into thinking about the overall business change and deployment agenda.

Excellent staff management and leadership

• Evidence of the successful development of staff on engagements.
• Capable of acting as mentor and or reviewer; ensures staff have career and development plans and that these are achievable.
• Ability to motivate and lead sizable engagement teams of Capgemini and client staff.
• Flexible about work content and location and able to work independently on client site.
• Experience leading complex, multi-vendor programmes that include emerging technologies such as AI, while balancing innovation with delivery assurance and commercial control.

Why Capgemini

We’re 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.

What We’ll Offer You

Professional development. Accelerated career progression. An environment that encourages entrepreneurial spirit. It’s all on offer at Capgemini. And although collaboration is at the core of the way we work, we also recognise individual needs with a flexible benefits package you can tailor to suit you.

Why we’re different

At Capgemini, we help organisations across the world become more agile, more competitive and more successful. Smart, tailored, often‑groundbreaking technical solutions to complex problems are the norm. But so, too, is a culture that’s as collaborative as it is forward thinking. Working closely with each other, and with our clients, we get under the skin of businesses and to the heart of their goals. You will too.

Capgemini is proud to represent nearly 130 nationalities and its cultural diversity. Our holistic definition of diversity extends beyond gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, race, age and religion. Capgemini views diversity as everything that makes us who we are as an organization, including our social background, our experiences in life and work, our communication styles and even our personality. These dimensions contribute to the type of diversity we value the most: diversity of thought.