Consumer Products & Retail - Senior Consultant

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

Due to continued growth and increased demand for our service, our Consumer Products and Retail (CPR) team are seeking to add experienced Consultants to support the continued expansion in these sectors. Our Consumer Products & Retail business brings together skills and expertise from across the Capgemini Invent capability teams and works closely with other service lines across the Group. We oversee a portfolio which covers some of the biggest names in UK Consumer Products & Retail across apparel, grocery, household and personal care, health and beauty. As a Senior Consultant, you will support the design and delivery of large‑scale transformation programmes by leveraging your sector knowledge and expertise. You will be responsible for developing trusted advisor relations with both our existing client base and new clients. Using the extensive network both within Invent and the broader firm, you will interact directly with clients to share your vision for the future of the industry and develop compelling solutions to meet our clients’ needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams and deliver high‑quality outcomes with increasing autonomy, whilst coaching and developing team members.
• Build and maintain trusted client relationships in both existing and new accounts.
• Demonstrate sector and sub‑sector experience and knowledge, inspiring and advising both our clients and our teams.
• Be proactive in driving business growth, supporting the pursuit of new opportunities through internal and external networks, collaborating across Capgemini sub‑brands.
• Contribute to thought leadership within the sector, and support the growth and expansion of our team and community.

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

Our most impactful consultants are passionate about Retail/Consumer Products and have a track record of successful delivery in that sector, ideally including experience in consulting.

Key Expectations

• Deep Retail or Consumer Products sector and sub‑sector knowledge and experience.
• This can be in one particular sector (e.g. Retail, Grocery, Food and Beverage, Household Products, Personal Care etc.)
• Depth in one or more functional areas within the consumer product and/or retail value chains e.g. deep knowledge of the workings of the Commercial function including Portfolio Strategy, Innovation/NPD, Category Strategy, Channel Strategy, Customer Experience, Digital Commerce, Pricing and Promotions, Commercial Data & Insights.
• Experience of building trusted client and stakeholder relationships through delivery excellence.
• Driving thought leadership and innovative solutions to take to our client’s which challenge and stretch their thinking in your area of expertise.
• Experience in a major consulting firm or in an industry role working closely with consulting partners, supported by strong sector expertise gained through engagements or direct operational roles.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you will support account growth and new business opportunities to grow the CPR sector.

What You'll Love About Working Here

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 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 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.

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 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.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester, Newcastle 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. 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.

About Capgemini

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 350,000 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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.