Product Manager

Job Title: Product Manager - Northampton

About the Job you are considering:

This role leads the end‑to‑end delivery of change initiatives by owning planning, execution, governance, and stakeholder alignment. It drives agile delivery disciplines, manages risks, financials, and vendor relationships, and ensures products are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality.

The position requires strong expertise in change management frameworks, sprint‑based delivery, and navigating complex regulatory and business environments. Success relies on strong influencing skills, commercial awareness, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while ensuring continuous delivery and organisational alignment.

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.

Job Role

• Define and own the content and direction of change projects to enable high‑performance, continuous delivery.
• Create and maintain delivery plans based on the Product Owner’s roadmap and Kanban workflows.
• Establish and drive delivery disciplines, cadence, and standards for the feature team.
• Own issue and blocker management, including status, resolution, and identifying/managing risks, seeking support where required.
• Own delivery status reporting, ensuring accuracy and clarity of all facts.
• Manage vendor relationships, including running RFPs and handling contract management activities.
• Control financials, including forecasting, tracking actuals, and managing to budget.
• Take overall accountability for delivering the product on time, within cost, and to expected quality, ensuring velocity is maintained and change is managed effectively.
• Ensure the wider organisation remains aligned and engaged with feature team needs, including securing timely governance approvals and dispensations.

Provide change management and project management expertise to assigned change initiatives.

Apply Agile delivery methodologies with hands‑on experience managing sprint‑based deliveries.

Job Skills

• Possess strong knowledge of change management methods and tools, particularly the Change Management method and toolkit.
• Understand the roles, responsibilities, and value proposition of Change Management.
• Demonstrate strong influencing and networking skills to build relationships and shape stakeholder opinions and actions.
• Use analytical thinking, creativity, and innovation to provide practical solutions to business‑critical issues.
• Understand, at a high level, how complex business needs interact with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Manage multiple priorities effectively, multitask, and deliver with flawless execution at pace.
• Apply sound commercial judgment with strong understanding of the financial services industry and the impact of regulation.
• Comply with Strategic Change Execution Board Standards, Group Change Governance framework, and mandated business change methods, standards, and tools.
  
  

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.

Job Description

A Product Manager defines and supports the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products balancing the needs of the client, business, design and development team over the product-market lifecycle.

Job Description - Grade Specific

Heorshe has a good knowledge of Agile, Lean, SCRUM and Kanban that can be leveraged to manage a design and development team. Heorshe builds product backlog starting from the findings from design research and stakeholder interviews. Heorshe manages feedback during design and development processes including design reviews and collaborate with Product Owners to review acceptance criteria.