Senior Project Manager

Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will work with Sogeti’s clients across different industries on governing and managing a wide range of projects. You’ll have the chance to utilise Sogeti's best-practice procedures as a part of a valued team. By applying diverse methodologies, you'll ensure that processes are being followed and deadlines are being met. You will also have the opportunity to engage in pre-sales planning and mobilisation activities and will be responsible for end-to-end project management of our projects.

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.

• 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.