Project Manager - Cards

Job Title: PROJECT MANAGER

Location: Northampton

About the Job you are considering:

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives while ensuring that projects are delivered on time within budget in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures

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.

Your Role

Project Delivery

• Manage end-to-end delivery of change projects and strategic initiatives.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and delivery roadmaps.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
• Monitor project progress and drive timely resolution of delivery challenges.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with senior leaders, business stakeholders, technology teams, operations, and external partners.
• Provide regular updates on project status, risks, issues, and key decisions.
• Facilitate effective collaboration across multiple functions and business areas.

Governance and Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Ensure adherence to governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Escalate critical risks and issues through appropriate governance channels.

Resource and Financial Management

• Coordinate project resources to ensure successful delivery.
• Manage project budgets and track expenditure against approved plans.
• Support resource planning and allocation activities.

Change Management

• Lead business readiness, communications, and training activities.
• Support successful implementation and adoption of change initiatives.
• Ensure new processes, products, and capabilities are effectively embedded within the organization.

Reporting and Controls

• Prepare and present project status reports for stakeholders and governance forums.
• Track milestones, deliverables, and benefits realization.
• Maintain project documentation and control artefacts.

Your Skills

• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale business or technology transformation programs.
• Strong project management and delivery expertise.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent risk, issue, and dependency management skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing abilities.
• Experience managing project budgets, timelines, and resources.
• Knowledge of change management principles and implementation practices.
• Understanding of governance, regulatory, and compliance requirements within financial services.

Preferred Experience

• Commercial cards, corporate issuing, payments, or banking experience.
• Product simplification, product rationalization, or transformation program experience.
• Experience delivering initiatives across product, technology, operations, risk, and compliance functions.
• Familiarity with agile and waterfall delivery methodologies.

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.

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.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

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.
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