Senior Project Manager

Capgemini; Telford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Project/Programme Manager to lead large IT and technology projects for public sector and other clients. You will drive end-to-end delivery, ensuring scope, quality, time and budget, while guiding multi-discipline teams in a matrix, multi-supplier context.

This role requires clear communication with senior stakeholders, agile practices, and proactive risk and RAID ownership. Hybrid working across offices, client sites, and home.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering IT/technology projects at a senior level, ideally in large, complex environments.
• End-to-end delivery across multi-supplier, matrix programmes.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery and programme lifecycle management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, including senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership of multi-discipline teams to high performance.
• Experience forecasting, budgeting and value delivery with change control.
• Proven commercial acumen including P&L accountability.
• Identify, assess and mitigate project risks with timely issue resolution.
• Robust project plans aligned to organisational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of large and complex IT/technology projects and programmes from initiation to end-to-end delivery.
• Provide strong leadership to multi-discipline and multi-supplier teams.
• Develop and maintain schedules, manage risks/dependencies and remove blockers.
• Build relationships with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment and delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency via agile practices.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and change control for programmes.
• Develop commercial proposals and work with various contract types.
• Provide clear reporting to senior stakeholders to support decision-making.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality standards and are delivered on time.
• Foster a productive, inclusive and collaborative working environment.

Skills

Senior leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile delivery

Risk & dependencies

Budgeting & finances

Commercial awareness

Matrix/multi-supplier

Strategic thinking

Senior stakeholder comms

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.

To be eligible for employment you must have the unrestricted right to work in the UK and be eligible for SC clearance (see more below). We do not offer sponsorship.

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, from end-to-end.
• 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, effective change control and active RAID ownership
• 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.

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'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 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