Project Manager - Cards

About the Job you are considering: Purpose of the Role as a Project Manager to manage change projects focused on TSYS Issuing platform and related product enhancements, ensuring delivery on time, within scope and budget, and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies. This role will lead projects that enable strategic objectives such as platform upgrades, new card product launches, scheme mandate compliance, and operational improvements.

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:

• Manage end to end delivery of TSYS Issuing projects, ensuring scope, timelines, budget, and quality standards are met.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans outlining scope, objectives, timelines, resource requirements, and dependencies.
• Engage with senior management, project teams, and external partners (TSYS, card schemes, vendors) to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Coordinate project teams and vendor resources, ensuring appropriate skills and capacity to deliver objectives.
• Track and manage project budgets, ensuring financial discipline and timely reporting of variances.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies; maintain RAID logs and escape as needed.
• Produce accurate, timely reports on progress, risks, and benefits realization for governance forums.
• Facilitate training, communications, and process updates to embed TSYS changes into BAU operations.

Your Skills:

• 6-10+ years in payments/card issuing projects, with hands on experience in TSYS Issuing platform.
• Strong understanding of card issuing lifecycle: BIN management, embossing/personalization, tokenization, EMV, 3DS/SCA, fraud/disputes.
• Proven ability to manage vendor delivery and scheme compliance (Visa/Mastercard mandates).
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (PCI DSS, PSD2, FCA) and operational resilience requirements.
• Experience in hybrid delivery (Agile + stage gate) and large scale change governance.

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.