Project Manager - EUS

Job description

Aston, Woking, Southbank and Toltec
With over 180,000 people in over 40 countries, the Capgemini Group is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience™ and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
About Infrastructure Services:
The Infrastructure Services business unit combines Capgemini’s consulting, infrastructure build and run capabilities and the provision of cloud based services in an integrated global sales and delivery model. With a turnover of EUR 1.3 billion, the group provides infrastructure outsourcing services, including service management, service integration, date centre, cloud computing, workplace, service desk and network support.. The group also provides infrastructure transformation services, helping clients to virtualise and optimise their estates, leveraging our outsourcing, integration, brokerage and as a service offerings.
End User: The vision of End User Services Practice is to build a user-centric, connected workplace that transforms today’s IT into an outstanding business experience for our customers.
About EUS:
The IT infrastructure marketplace is moving to a new paradigm. Offshore capabilities have changed clients’ expectations of prices for standard services and Cloud will now change the game between customised IT and standard IT.
This means that our clients expect the best possible prices for standard applications and functionalities. They anticipate on-demand resources, including outsourcing of their capital expenditure. And they demand an IT foundation with key infrastructure elements and application programming interfaces already built-in. Our clients will show preference to value propositions delivering information systems that differentiate their businesses in their markets.
In response, Dynamic Services are evolving which will take us beyond the current trend for tower services and introduce a new generation or micro-sourced services. These services offer applications, infrastructure and business processes
- all as-a-service; whilst running alongside the effective management of the legacy towers.
Building the capability that orchestrates these services to enable client’s competitive advantage is the business of Infrastructure Transformation Services.
These roles provide an excellent opportunity within EUS Northern Europe for high performers with project experience who are ready to take on project leadership roles. The successful candidates will be working as part of the EUS Project & Programmes Practice in a wide variety of client facing environments in both public and private sectors.
Project Managers are responsible for leading either large projects or a definable segment of a very large and complex project. The Project Manager is responsible for and leads the translation of the client's complex business requirements into formal agreements, establishing specific solutions and consulting engagements.
This includes working with client personnel and executives to identify business requirements. It means working with and leading others in the initiation, planning, control, execution and implementation of the client's solution. Our Project Managers are responsible for a wide range of process activities beginning with the request for proposal through development and final delivery.
Within Infra Service Northern Europe, these roles provide the opportunity for experienced high performing Project Managers to join the Project & Programmes capability in a wide variety of senior client facing environments.
- Applies knowledge of project management disciplines and processes to deliver infrastructure consulting and implementations that modernise clients’ IT infrastructure
- Accountable for large, complex projects including cross functional engagements, global projects and manages dispersed teams
- Interfaces directly with customer's executive management
- Guides other professionals (projects practitioners, specialists and consultants)
- Leads commercial negotiations with clients and 3rd parties
- Provides leadership in complex project related problems and creates innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components with the assistance of the functional and technical groups
- Challenge the validity of given procedures and processes with the intent to enhance and improve
- Leads and guides the efforts of others in understanding and reaching project decisions. Position may require coordination of activities of less experienced or less knowledgeable team members
- Is respected as a project management subject matter expert both inside and outside the company
- Leads project management/business initiatives in new and complex areas both externally and internally
- Forecasting and budget / financial management to support delivery to time, cost, scope and quality
- Supporting proposal development, from client request through issue, presentation through to project delivery
- Contributing to the development of methods and expansion of the knowledge base within the Practice
- Strong Leadership, planning and organizational skills underpinned by proven experience in IT Infrastructure / Applications projects
- Experience of project and programme planning, project forecasting and financial management
- Excellent analytical and technical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Must be able to demonstrate a level of maturity while under constant pressure from the business and client
- Knowledge and experience of project delivery methodologies
- Stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels
- Flexible about work content and location, able to work independently with clients and colleagues
- Experience of tools such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, SharePoint and Teamforge
- Experience of financial management tools
- Crucially important is experience in Transition work, service desk and distributed deskside being our key areas.
- This is a client facing role which requires excellent presentation, communication and organisation skills
- There will be a requirement to attain the relevant level of Capgemini’s Engagement Management Certification within employment
- Development support and Learning and Development will be provided in line with the Capgemini curriculum for our Engagement Management community and Infrastructure Services
- Successful candidates will be asked to gain a level of security clearance either prior to or upon commencement of employment in support of their allocation to accounts requiring an element of security clearance
- Successful applicants will require flexibility in their work location; the ability to work at client and Capgemini sites across the UK or internationally for the duration of assignments
Capgemini positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We are committed to hiring, developing and retaining the best people to deliver innovative, world-class solutions for our clients. We foster an inclusive culture that enables everyone to achieve their full potential and enjoy a fulfilling career with us. Our comprehensive flexible benefits package and lifestyle policies enable our employees to balance their individual, family and work-life needs.