Capita Experience focus on serving a blue-chip client base in the UK and across Europe, with the aim of growing within these markets and expanding to new markets. Our primary focus is to help our clients digitise their interactions with customers, members and other stakeholders, and move towards an integrated data-driven, insight-led and personalised customer experience.

As a Project Manager you will have an instrumental role supporting the Project Management function within a project services environment, this role requires a strong, well rounded, dynamic individual with proven project management capabilities.

Location: Homeworking but with a expectation to travel across UK as and where business requires

Job title:

Project Manager (IT & Business)

Job Description:

As a project manager you will be responsible for leading and managing project’s to ensure they produces the required products within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefits and risk to a successful delivery. You need to be able to demonstrate your ability to work across all levels of stakeholders and third parties within a commercial environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Day-to-day management of the project from initiation through to closure following our project management methodology
• Prepare and manage, and gaining approval where required, of baseline management products of; Proposals, PIDs, Plans, Work Packages, Highlight Reports, End Stage Reports, Closure Reports and any other product applicable to the size and complexity of the project 
• Manage the production of required products by suppliers and functions, taking responsibility for overall progress
• Liaise with portfolio, programme management or the customer to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated by related projects
• Establish and manage the project procedures of risk management, issue management, change control and communication
• Liaise with and manage internal and external suppliers to the project
• Establish and manage the project controls monitoring and reporting and develop and implement the governance for the project
• Managing the project budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs against the budget and advise project board of any deviation

Key Experience:

• Driving and delivering small projects within a matrix environment
• Delivering projects in complex and large-scale organisational environments
• Management of small scale project budgets (up to £500k)
• Management of multiple external suppliers
• Management of projects to client contractual commitments

What we’re looking for:

• Proficient user in Microsoft project
• Experience with identifying project risk (Schedule, Cost, Quality) and ensuring robust mitigations in place
• Experience in engaging and collaborating with senior level internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience in building and maintaining client stakeholder relationships ensuring they are engaged and informed
• Able to provide clear direction to project teams to achieve the required outcomes
• PRINCE 2 foundation or practitioner or industry-standard equivalent qualification

 What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary of upto £46k DOE
• Homeworking but with a expectation to travel across UK as and where business requires
• 23 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave 
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more  
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.  

What we hope you will do next

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. 

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Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.