Senior Consultant - Public Sector 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.

Your role: As part of Capgemini Invent's continued growth in the public sector we are seeking proven management consultants to join our award‐winning team. Base locations can be either London, Manchester or Glasgow with an expectation of regular travel to client sites as part of our hybrid working pattern. Successful consultants need to be able to demonstrate proven ability to deliver results and drive change for public sector clients. Our focus sub‐sectors include Central Government, Health, Defence and Education. Relevant and transferable experience outside of these sub‐sectors is also welcomed.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Delivering excellent service to public sector clients as part of our project teams.
• Taking responsibility for managing smaller projects or workstreams to cost, time and quality, effectively managing risks/issues.
• Managing, supporting and developing more junior colleagues to deliver excellent client service, quality assuring their work as required.
• Interfacing with client stakeholders and building effective client relationships.
• Supporting business growth through development of your client network and proactive identification of client needs in a sell‐deliver model. You'll also support proposal development and bidding activities.
• Building strong Capgemini communities through active contribution to practice development, knowledge management and collaboration with colleagues.

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 - 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: You will already have experience of leading or supporting programmes and projects in the public sector from a major consulting firm. You will be experienced at working in a matrixed organisation. We maintain increasingly high standards for our consultants and require candidates with:

• Proven intellectual strength. You'll be educated to degree level or equivalent.
• A broad consulting skillset which is likely to include a combination of:

• Evidence of excellent project delivery in the public sector, with experience of agile and waterfall delivery methods.
• Evidence of project or workstream leadership, including management of risks/issues, managing team members and the commercial aspects of delivery.
• Evidence of a strong analytical mindset and the application of relevant frameworks to identify business pain points, user needs and develop solutions.
• Evidence an understanding of, and practical application of aspects of transformation design and delivery which may include: target operating model design and implementation; business analysis methods; operational excellence methods; change management; business case development; benefits realisation; portfolio, programme and project delivery.

What you'll love about working here: You'll thrive in a collaborative and diverse environment that empowers you to innovate, grow your skills, and make a real impact‐whether you're shaping solutions for clients or driving positive change in society. You will be supported by a culture that values inclusion, continuous learning, and the freedom to bring your authentic self to work every day.

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.

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.

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 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. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.