Senior Manager - United Kingdom - Capgemini

Description

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

About Capgemini Invent

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.

Our brand promise "Get The Future You Want" reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company's commitment to inclusion and sustainability.
An important aspect of 'Get the Future You Want' is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success. When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

Get The Future You Want

Your wellbeing
You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. 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.

Shape your path
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.

An overview of the role:

As part of the huge growth in demand in our Energy Transition & Utilities practice, we are seeking an experienced Manager or Senior Manager to join our highly talented team, working on the pursuit and delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services in the Energy Networks Sector.

The work:

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It's really rewarding. And it's also really varied. You'll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Why this role?

As a Senior Manager in the business you'll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team.

Our clients within the Energy Networks Sector manage and operate the electricity and gas grids, ensuring safe, secure and reliable energy is delivered to homes and businesses. They have a critical and central role in delivering net zero, investing and innovating at scale to create networks of the future that can support more renewable energy, electric vehicles and green gases.

Driven by this investment and the unique position of our Capgemini Invent business in this sector, we are seeing a significant increase in demand for our services and teams. Our vast utilities experience, strong strategic and business transformation skillset, a deep understanding of technology and a highly collaborative approach has allowed us to build a successful track record of delivering leading edge consulting services and solutions for our clients.

This role is designed to further expand and strengthen our position in this market. As a Manager or Senior Manager in our business, you'll help set the direction, drive forward the business, shape and manager our most critical engagements and important client relationships, model our values and behaviours and coach and develop junior members of the team.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

We'd love to meet someone with:

• Experience gained within the Utilities (ideally Energy Networks) sector, including with electricity and gas transmission and distribution clients
• And understanding of the Utilities (ideally Energy Networks) sector and an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities faced by organisations within it
• Experience of working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but with a consulting background
• Project and programme delivery experience, across one or more of the broad range of capabilities described below
• Proven ability to lead and manage teams to deliver successful business and technology outcomes
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering solutions.

You will bring subject matter experience, expertise and intellectual capital across a broad range of advisory, consulting and transformation services. We are looking for a number of Managers and Senior Managers with one or more of the following backgrounds:

• Corporate strategy, business planning, market design & policy and regulatory advisory services
• Business and IT operating model, restructuring and performance improvement
• Large scale business transformation and programme delivery, across areas including system operation, control room. engineering, asset management, capital infrastructure, operations, customer and workforce
• Design and deployment of digital transformation solutions and services
• Emerging business and digital trends in energy networks, such as intelligent system operations, IoT, advanced analytics. mobile applications, automation, energy management, digital twin and BIM
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.

Why Capgemini is unique

At Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to 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.

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. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Collaboration and Innovation:

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you'll get to know the customer's needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It'll help you discover unexpected answers together.

Learning and development:

There's an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you'll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all our teams.

CSR:

We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

When you join Capgemini, you don't just start a new job. You become part of something bigger.

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