Project Manager (Dublin)

at  Sogeti

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and manage projects end-to-end, with full delivery responsibility, including managing project scope, schedule, financials, risk, issue, resourcing, and governance.
• Operationally drive the delivery execution utilising relevant Capgemini & Sogeti methodology, Programme & Project Management methodologies (Waterfall / Agile / CRISP-DM) and principles, and leveraging your own experiences, to ensure project execution on-time, within budget and meeting or exceeding the expected level of quality.
• Oversee day-to-day activities and task management of the project team.
• Document project scope, prepare project plan and monitor delivery, prepare project status reports, change and risk logs, manage and monitor project cost/budget, communicate with relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively communicate and manage risks and issues.
• Monitor benefits realisation in the form of key outcome metrics.
• Identify and make decisions that have a significant impact and escalate decisions that cannot be resolved within the project to the agreed governance forums.
• Accountable for project team adherence to project methodology and ensures any deviations are addressed.
• Lead, motivate, and support project teams.
• Ensure projects comply with required standards or legislative constraints.
• Collaborates across the organisation & externally, including external regulatory bodies and stakeholders. Identifies and manages cross functional interdependencies.
• Influences and negotiates project outcomes with senior stakeholders, often across multiple functions. Prepares and presents analysis, insights, and recommendation to assist agreed governance forums with decision making.
• Contribute to the development of project management methods and expanding the knowledge base within the practice.
• Take an active part in sales and pre-sales activity; lead the implementation planning of the engagement, covering the definition of methodology, delivery model, timeline, organization, governance, resourcing, roles and responsibilities, and project and program management principles, processes, and tools.
• Participate and contribute to the negotiations for contracting the engagement and take a key role in drafting the statement of work and in particular the related project plan.
• Actively manage the client relationship to ensure client satisfaction. Work with client and Capgemini / Sogeti stakeholders to develop the account strategy, and to develop the client relationship on a strategic level, via overall services portfolio management, strengthening Capgemini’s position as a strategic partner to the client.