Junior Project Manager/Engagement Manager

at  Capgemini

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE TEAM:

Our Insights and Data team helps our clients make better business decisions by transforming an ocean of data into streams of insight. Our clients are among Australia’s top performing companies, and they choose to partner with Capgemini for a very good reason - our exceptional people. Due to continued growth within Capgemini’s Insights & Data practice we intend to recruit a Junior Engagement Manager with relevant consulting and communication skills. If you are already working in a consultancy role or have excellent client-facing skills gained within large organizations, we would like to discuss our consultant opportunities with you.

The following key obligations are a primary focal for this role:

• Senior Executive Relationship and Reporting Skills
• Advanced Delivery capability with strong risk and issue management skills
• Executive reporting and attendance at steering committees
• Mentor and coach agile delivery across teams as required
• Proactively Monitor and intervene to ensure consistent delivery disciplines are undertaken and proper governance and measures are in place/followed
• Support delivery and align them to value stream release trains
• Oversight and support delivery outcomes across complex matrixed organization

The responsibilities, skills and duties of the role include:

• Manage complex works programs across matrixed organizations
• Provide Executive reporting
• Manage complex risks and issues across a complex program of work
• Help establish persistent delivery teams;
• Oversight agile delivery based on the organisations agile delivery approach
• Work with delivery teams, business stakeholders and product owners to break down work if required
• Help prioritise iterative incremental delivery of business value and manage any re-prioritisation if the program changes based on executive input
• Support engineering managers and value stream leads to plan for work;
• Provide resource and financial forecasts based on the delivery pipeline across the program
• Coach on maintain RALLY/JIRA Hygiene,
• Promote Agile way of working amongst team members;
• As a part of the role, have the ability to build productive team culture and dynamics across a complex program
• As a part of the role, coach teams for performance and build a “high performance” culture
• Have an ability to facilitate alternative solution approaches using a consultative style and obtain agreed consensus across a broad stakeholder group
• Proven experience in building and managing communities of Practice
• Foster adoption of proven best practice in Agile from Industry
• Work with teams to set up delivery measures, baseline them and drive to continuous improvement
• Have the ability to influence and change if required existing delivery practices to allow efficient business value delivery
• Clear obstacles and impediments blocking the team and protect the team from external interruptions and distractions;
• Demonstrate deep experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Track record in delivery by leading through engagement, influencing stakeholders, motivating others and foster synergy
• Have strong communication skills
• Successfully implement program/value stream delivery
• Be able to establish delivery measures/metric