Senior Project Planner | Birmingham, UK

About the job you\’re considering
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Project Management Team supporting the Cloud and Infrastructure business in the UK.
As part of the Engagement Management Community, you\’ll be leading planning sessions and creating detailed project plans for the delivery of technology enabled transformation projects across many sectors and environments, including our ever-growing Cyber practise. The team are based across the UK, with a variety of skillsets from all-rounders to subject matter experts, such as the Project Planner role. What they all have in common is the desire to deliver excellence to our varied customer base supporting the business aims and goals of those organisations.
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

• You will be responsible for all aspects of project planning.
• You will be outlining the scope of projects against contracts.
• Creating project plans using MSP, identifying and evaluating risks.
• Ensuring that the Project Management team with comprehensive project data to help them deliver more effectively.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Your skills and experience

• Build plans to support complex Projects and Programmes through Sales/Bids and Delivery and maintain and track activities on complex Project and Programme through the delivery lifecycle and lead Planning sessions and identification and design of appropriate work breakdown structures.
• Significant experience using planning software such as Microsoft Project and promote Planning Best Practice standards on all engagements
• Scenario Planning, Critical Path Analysis, milestone Reporting, Inter-dependency tracking and impact analysis.
• Promote a standard approach to planning using templates and best practices and produce required resource profiles from Microsoft Project to support resource onboarding and tracking.
• Peer review of existing plans against standards and best practice and provide guidance to colleagues on planning and use of Microsoft Project and assist Engagement Managers in risk identification.
• Confidence and gravitas in front of clients, project team and 3rd parties and experience of preparing and presenting project reports for internal and external stakeholders.

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 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.
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\’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.
Capgemini. Get The Future You Want.
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 a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations 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 fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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