Overview
PROGRAMME MANAGER – SR. MANAGER – London
Reference Code: 393050-en_GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Professional Communities: Business Analysis
Job Title: Programme Manager – Sr. Manager – Cards – Northampton
About the Job you are considering:
Purpose of the Role as a “Programme Manager” is to lead and manage complex change programmes ensuring delivery on time within scope and budget and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies This role drives strategic transformation initiatives platform migration digital issuance tokenization scheme certifications while embedding robust governance risk management and change adoption across the enterprise
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:
- Programme Delivery Manage end to end delivery of Issuing Transformation projects ensuring scope timelines budget and quality standards are met
- Planning Governance Develop and maintain integrated programme plans resource models and governance frameworks aligned to strategic objectives
- Stakeholder Engagement Communicate effectively with senior management project teams and external partners processors schemes vendors to ensure alignment and transparency
- Team Leadership Manage project teams and vendor resources ensuring capability capacity and clarity of roles to deliver programme objectives
- Budget Management Control programme budgets track variances and ensure financial discipline
- Risk Compliance Identify assess and mitigate risks assumptions issues and dependencies ensure adherence to regulatory and internal control frameworks PCI DSS PSD2 FCA EMV SCA
- Reporting Produce accurate timely reports on progress risks and benefits realization for SteerCo and executive stakeholders
- Change Adoption Facilitate training communications and operating model changes to embed new processes and technology into BAU
Expectations
- Strategic Contribution Shape strategy defines requirements and recommends solutions for Issuing Transformation plan resources budgets and policies
- Leadership Demonstrate LEAD behaviours Listen be authentic Energise inspire Align across the enterprise Develop others
- Risk Control Own risk management and strengthen controls within programme scope escalate breaches promptly
- Collaboration Build strong partnerships across business and technology functions influence decisions and align priorities
- Analytical Leadership Apply sophisticated analytical thinking to define problems evaluate alternatives and develop innovative solutions
- People Development If managing a team define roles coach talent and contribute to performance and pay decisions if an individual contributor act as SME guiding technical direction and mentoring others
Your Skills:
You should have experience with
- 8-12 years in payments issuing transformation programmes including platform migrations and scheme certifications
- Strong knowledge of card issuing lifecycle BIN management tokenization VTSMDES EMV 3DSSCA fraud disputes personalization fulfilment
- Proven ability to manage multi-vendor delivery and regulatory compliance PCI DSS PSD2 FCA
- Expertise in hybrid delivery Agile stage gate and large-scale change governance
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels
Skills Competencies
- Programme leadership and governance
- Payments technology and integration APIs microservices
- Risk and control frameworks
- Vendor and commercial management
- Tools JIRA MS Project Power BI Confluence”
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 Manage Mentor, 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.
Make it real | www.capgemini.com
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