Senior Manager- IT Cost & Value in London

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.

The Business Technology practice is one of the leading CIO & CTO advisory and technology innovation teams in the UK and Europe. Our consultants deliver tangible outcomes across business and IT‐oriented environments, working collaboratively with major FTSE 100 and government clients to help them achieve their strategic goals and leverage technology as a key driver of sustainable growth and ambitious change.

Our IT Performance (ITP) team is part of the growing Business Technology practice. We are structured across three core disciplines: (i) Technology Strategy; (ii) IT Cost & Value; and (iii) IT Mergers and Acquisitions.

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated IT M&A Senior Manager to support the continued development and growth of our fast‐paced and forward‐thinking team. The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise that includes IT due diligence, deal closure, and Day 2 transformation to ensure successful mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. You will support transactions across all industry sectors and all aspects of the Technology Strategy, Cost & Value, Digital and Transformation agenda.

The responsibilities of the Senior Manager role in IT M&A typically include the following:

• Developing our IT M&A offer and building capability within the ITP team, supporting market unit teams to have M&A conversations and developing winning proposals for their clients.
• Driving complex technology assessments of IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, cybersecurity posture, cloud environments, and digital platforms to uncover risks, quantify technical debt, and identify integration or separation challenges that could materially affect deal value.
• Leading and delivering post‐merger integration strategies including harmonising IT operating models, consolidating ERP and core systems, planning cloud migrations, and designing digital transformation roadmaps that accelerate synergy capture and enable scalable growth.
• Leading tech carve‐out and separation planning incl. defining Transitional Service Agreements (TSAs), orchestrating data migration strategies, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and security requirements while maintaining business continuity during divestitures.
• Providing leadership on emerging technologies and digital capabilities: AI, advanced analytics, cybersecurity and cloud‐native architectures – evaluating scalability, interoperability, and alignment with the client's investment thesis and long‐term digital strategy.
• Advising clients on translating complex technical findings into actionable commercial insights, quantifying IT‐related costs and risks, and supporting negotiation strategies to maximise deal value and minimise execution risk.

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 are looking for Senior Manager level candidates who can demonstrate the following:

• Evidence of leading delivery of IT M&A engagements, driving positive outcomes and developing opportunities to deliver follow‐on work.
• Evidence of specialism in IT M&A including IT due diligence, integration and separation planning, and technology assessments for complex, high‐value transactions.
• Evidence of deep technical and strategic expertise, including enterprise IT architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), cybersecurity frameworks, ERP systems (SAP, Oracle), and emerging technologies – combined with the ability to translate technical complexity into actionable commercial insights for clients.
• Evidence of managing teams, including multiple workstreams in complex delivery environments and the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to quantify and optimise technology‐related deal value, including cost modelling, synergy identification, risk mitigation, and aligning technology strategies with business priorities to maximise transaction success.

Desirable Experience

• Currently working in a major consulting firm, and/or in industry with 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.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation's broader pre‐existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you'll be generating c.£1m of consulting revenues.

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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.

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.

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.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations 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 fuelled by its market‐leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.