Director - Programme Delivery - #1742744

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

Business Technology is Capgemini Invent’s technology consulting and transformation advisory practice. Within Business Technology, our Digital Acceleration team focuses on helping our clients to deliver technology transformation programmes for business value, and optimise the effectiveness and impact of their IT capability.

We are looking to hire a Director into Digital Acceleration to help sell and deliver large-scale transformation programmes and grow the Business Technology portfolio into our clients.

As a Director, you will be responsible for selling and delivering our Business Technology transformation programme services, working cross-sector in close collaboration with our industry teams. You will build relevant senior client relationships, help Capgemini Invent become a trusted advisor, and identify and create new opportunities to support our clients.

You will play a leadership role in our wider business, helping set the direction, driving forward the business, modelling our values and behaviours, and coaching junior members of the team.

Key expectations from this role include:

• Working collaboratively as part of the Capgemini Invent Business Technology leadership teams to drive market growth.
• In particular, driving our Digital Acceleration offerings, tools and assets into the market, including large programme transformation delivery and CIO advisory.
• Capitalising on relationships already developed with large clients, and building new routes into senior clients. Identifying and building a strong network of client contacts responsible for consulting/advisory programmes, and extending our relationships with them as clients of Capgemini Invent.
• Taking the role of Programme Leader, and overseeing the delivery of Capgemini Invent engagements with major clients.
  
  

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
  
  

Your Profile

Ideally you’ll bring:

• Strong experience of shaping transformation programmes leveraging the following capabilities: strategy and operating model, technology advisory, technology delivery, technology-enabled business transformation.
• Deep expertise in leading and delivering large-scale technology transformation programmes, including solution shaping, senior stakeholder management up to CXO level, complex issue resolution, management of third parties and external partners, and delivery of business benefits through technology.
• A proven track record in new business development across the full sales lifecycle. 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.
• Experience of developing relationships with senior level clients and acting as their trusted advisor for transformation.
  
  

You’ll also bring:

• Strong management consulting experience with proven success.
• Experience and evidence of thought leadership and a recognised reputation in the market.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Credibility and personal impact – being driven, dynamic, tenacious and possessing the will to win and deliver results.
• Versatility, with a collaborative style, empathetic in nature, confident in content and focused on outcomes at all levels in the client organisation.
• Currently working in a major consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a consulting background.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
  
  

What You'll Love About Working Here

You’ll have the opportunity to be a leader in one of the world’s foremost technology consulting providers. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organisation 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. As a Director in Digital Acceleration, you will be in the forefront of driving technology transformation delivery with our clients in the UK and helping them shape their futures.

Need to Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We 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 as 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.

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 as your 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.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.