About the job you're considering

The Engagement Manager is one of the key roles on a project. The Engagement Manager is:

“Accountable and Responsible for: delivering against contracts, meeting (or exceeding) Client expectations, achieving Engagement Targets, identifying and actioning opportunities for additional business, and ensuring that the Project Management Rules are followed on the engagement.”

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.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

The Engagement Managers key responsibilities include:

• Ensure 100% Compliancy with UK UPM, UK Project Management Rules and UK Mandatory Requirements
• Delivering against the contract: Conversant with the contract, managing the contracts and the change control process.
• Overall responsibility for engagement success and achieving engagement targets e.g. margin (as defined in the Internal View) and delivering to agreed timescales.
• Management of the engagement through its lifecycle: Specifically, the project baseline, Risks and Issues in Pre project start-up, start-up, execution and closedown.
• Management of the monthly financial reporting process including preparation of the ‘Monthly’ Engagement Status in e-Monitoring, attendance at the M Review, management of Client invoicing and supplier payments.
• Ensure the local mandated methods and tools are utilised e.g: UK UPM, e-Monitoring and e-Collaborative.
• Timely raising and effective management of Security and Data Protection Incidents and Breaches should they occur.

Your skills and experience

An Engagement Manager should demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Thorough understanding of methods and tools
• Development of resourced based project plans and tracking of project plans, using a standard scheduling tool e.g. MS Project / Open Workbench
• Leadership and motivational skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong influencing skills and conflict resolution skills with analytical problem solving and structured thinking.
• Ability to identify, manage and mitigate project risks, manage and resolve project issues, manage Client obligations, understand the detail and manage the project’s finances and manage internal and external project dependencies.
• Consistent accurate management of project scope via the Change Control process, escalation of project issues and risks in a timely manner. Effective supplier management e.g. selecting suppliers, developing supplier agreements, managing supplier performance and delivery and ability to mentor and coach project resources

.It is expected that Engagement Managers will have demonstrated successfully the following:

• Years of Oracle full lifecycle implementation experience
• Experience of requirements identification, design, build and implementation.
• Experience of managing custom build and/or ERP/Package engagements (e.g. SAP, Oracle) through requirements definition, design, build, test and implementation.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does "Get The Future You Want" mean for you?

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’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.
You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to 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. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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