Change Project Manager

Job Title: Change Project Manager

Location: Milton Keynes

About the Job you are considering: The Project Manager is responsible for defining, planning, and delivering business change initiatives that support the organization's strategic objectives. The role will own the content, direction, and successful execution of change projects, ensuring business outcomes are achieved through effective stakeholder engagement, governance, operational readiness, and end-to-end delivery management.

The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology teams to deliver high-quality change initiatives while ensuring compliance with governance, risk, and regulatory requirements.

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:

Project Delivery & Execution

• Take full accountability for the successful delivery and implementation of business and technology change projects.

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria aligned to business outcomes.

• Develop, maintain, and manage detailed project plans, ensuring milestones and dependencies are clearly identified.

• Ensure delivery is completed to agreed time, cost, scope, and quality standards.

• Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.

Business Change Management

• Partner with business stakeholders to establish clear project scope and business requirements.

• Support the realization of business benefits through effective change planning and execution.

• Lead business readiness activities, ensuring operational teams are prepared for change implementation.

• Develop and coordinate communication, training, and adoption plans to support successful change outcomes.

• Apply structured change management methodologies and best practices to drive user adoption and engagement.

Technology & Business Collaboration

• Work closely with Technology project teams to deliver technology solutions that enable business objectives.

• Coordinate business and technology activities to ensure successful end-to-end implementation.

• Support testing, validation, deployment, and post-implementation reviews.

• Drive pragmatic business and operational design solutions that maximize project benefits.

Your Skills:

Essential

• Proven experience managing business and technology change projects within the Financial Services sector.

• Strong experience delivering projects using both Agile and traditional project management methodologies.

• Practical experience managing Agile sprint-based delivery environments.

• Demonstrated expertise in change management principles, methodologies, tools, and frameworks.

• Experience leading business readiness, communication, training, and adoption activities.

• Strong stakeholder management experience, including senior executive engagement.

• Experience managing project governance, risks, dependencies, budgets, and reporting.

• Proven ability to deliver multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

Desirable

• Experience within Banking, Consumer Finance, Automotive Finance, or Financial Services organizations.

• Exposure to regulatory change, compliance initiatives, or operational transformation programs.

• Professional Project Management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM, Scrum Master, or equivalent).

• Change Management certification (Prosci, APMG Change Management, or equivalent).

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. Make it real | www.capgemini.com