Senior Project Manager

at  Capgemini

YOU WILL HAVE SUBSTANTIAL EXPERIENCE OF DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT OF PROJECT TEAMS AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS BOTH ON-SHORE AND OFF-SHORE.

• You will be comfortable managing technical resources, be able to grasp technical issues and to guide your team to resolve technical project issues.
• 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 have experience in delivering projects based on both structured and agile methodologies and experience of the role of a Scrum Master would be particularly valuable.
• You will have built sustainable relationships with customers at middle-top and top management level, utilising these for successful delivery and in seeking out further business opportunities.
• Recognised both internally and by clients for providing effective relationship and commercial management in complex delivery and sales environments and capable of developing and delivering formal presentations to senior clients in both delivery and sales situations.

YOU WILL TAKE OWNERSHIP FOR DELIVERING PROJECT FOR CLIENTS INCLUDING ALL ASPECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE BUDGET AND OUTCOMES.

• Take handover from Sales during the sales to delivery handover and define a project plan acceptable to the client and within the constraints of the contract and build a resource profile aligned to the project plan with an appropriate pyramid and on-shore/off-shore ratio.
• Manage projects day-to-day ensuring that risks, issues and dependencies are recorded, escalated and reported as appropriate. Manage daily project activities ensuring that on-shore and off-shore resources are aligned and working towards the common goal.
• Complete project status reports and present project status (including financials) at the monthly internal project reviews.
• Ensure that invoices are raised and cash collected in a timely manner, raise change requests to the contract as required and provide accurate project forecasts.
• Build key client relationships and improve project profitability by selling additional work and/or resources into the client and contribute to the I&D engagement management community.