AddressAt 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, fueled 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
We are growing our Public Sector team, and the opportunities are huge. We work hand in hand with our clients to realise their goals and overcome their most complex challenges. We work very closely with the broader Capgemini group to support our clients as holistically as possible, leveraging a wealth of technical expertise. The really exciting part is that we have a start-up mentality with the backing of a well-established Global business.
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An overview of the role:
A Director in Tax, Welfare and Business, as part of the broader Public Sector Leadership team. You will be a disruptor in the market with our clients across Central Government and its enabling organisations, bringing the best of Invent, in terms of our innovation and cutting edge thinking to help tackle our client’s most challenging problems. Alongside this, you’ll be a people focussed leader, that is committed to motivating and nurturing our people and their development.
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 Director 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. Key expectations from this role include:
- To develop and expand Capgemini’s impact across Tax, Welfare and Business and its enabling organisations.
- To help our clients realise their strategic transformation agenda through leading insight and exceptional delivery.
- To develop deep, trust- based relationships with clients in a sell-deliver-sell-on model (i.e. this leader both sells and delivers work, and through the quality of their delivery, is able to sell more).
- To bring the power of the global Capgemini organisation to drive improved account delivery and client success.
- To work with the leadership team in the Public Sector, to build the team that will continue and build on our success across Central Government.
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:
- Current experience working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry / Central Government but having a Consulting background.
- Experience in delivering successful change in Central Government organisations with a maintained network of positive relationships with key decision-makers.
- Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
- The ability to create a compelling vision for their focus area that will inspire others, both to join the team, but also to gain the trust and backing of the wider Capgemini team.
- Experience in creating new propositions, translating these into consulting contracts, agreeing them with clients and seeing them through to delivery.
- Up-to-date knowledge of Public Sector trends and issues and a recognised subject matter expert in your focus area(s) for delivery.
- Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network , you’ll be generating c .£2m of consulting revenues.
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 of 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 or Manchester 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.
We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.
More information is at available at: https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/about-us/who-we-are/our-brands/capgemini-invent/
In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.
