Manager/Senior Manager - Water Sector

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:

We are looking for an experienced leader who will help identify, shape and spearhead strategies addressing critical challenges in the UK water sector during the PR24/AMP8 period. This will involve tackling pressing issues such as climate change adaptation, infrastructure resilience, leakage reduction and digital transformation.

Understanding the sector to enable us to support our clients through their toughest challenges is at the heart of how we help our clients succeed, and will be a key requirement of your role with us.

In this role you will play a key part in building, and owning, senior client relationships with our clients and developing a detailed understanding of their needs so as to shape, secure, guide and deliver leading edge Water Sector programmes for them. In doing so you will help our clients:

• Identify, map and deliver a step change in operational performance in areas across their business, such as Capital Delivery, Leakage, Field force management, Flooding response and Water and Waste Operations.
• Navigate through complex change roadmaps to deliver real, well-orchestrated and sustainable change.
• Balance business change with technology change in a way that delivers benefits for them, their stakeholders and their customers.
• Through working within our matrix organization, bring the capabilities of Capgemini UK Group, as well as Global capabilities, to our UK client base.

As well as a delivery role, you will be leading the development of new business, utilising a combination of our broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, to enable our growth ambitions.

Your role will also provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the broader 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:

As an experienced Senior Hire, ideally you will:

• Sector experience – Experience working within a UK water company or as part of a Consulting organization focused on the UK Water Sector. An understanding of the current trends and issues in the Sector and broader ecosystem, their impact on organizations and society including the anticipated shifts in AMP8 capability requirements.
• Excellent presentation and articulation skills – outstanding written, oral communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex problems, quantitative analysis and solutions in a way that can be quickly understood both at operational and Senior Leadership level.
• Business relationship building – demonstrated ability to develop and maintain relationships at senior and executive level within UK Water Organisations.
• Commercial Acumen – experienced in managing project finances, as well as constructing client proposals.
• Learning and Coaching – demonstrated desire to continue developing not only your own skills, but also those around you, both for clients and Capgemini Invent colleagues.

What you\’ll love about working here:

With a big company capability, but a small company feel, working within the Capgemini Invent Water Sector Team offers an array of personal and professional development opportunities. No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It is both rewarding and varied. As a Director / Senior Manager, you will lead on market-defining initiatives, working alongside senior clients, forming dynamic teams, and delivering impactful results.

Our Water team comprises deep industry expertise at a national and global level as well as career consulting experience and expertise. Coupled with our heritage of leading some of the largest industry digital transformations, we have the unique position of being able to offer our clients both industry thought leadership and proven experience in end-to-end digital delivery. We strive to understand our client’s business needs as well as individual motivations, forming long term strategic partnerships.

Need to know:

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 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, 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. 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 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.

Ref. code: 149529

Posted on: 16 Jan 2025

Experience Level: Experienced Professionals

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: London, GB

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