Manager/Senior Manager - Energy Networks in Manchester

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 the huge growth in demand in our Energy Transition & Utilities practice, we are seeking an experienced individual to join our highly talented team, working on the pursuit and delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services across our sector. Our clients within Energy Transition & Utilities include those within the sub‑sectors of Energy Networks, Energy Retail, Energy Central Markets, Water and Nuclear. Driven by major investment in the sector and the unique position of our Capgemini Invent business, we are seeing a significant increase in demand for our services and teams. Our vast utilities experience, strong strategic and business transformation skillset, a deep understanding of digital, data and a highly collaborative approach has allowed us to build a successful track record of delivering leading edge consulting services and solutions for our clients.

As a Manager or Senior Manager within Capgemini Invent’s Energy Networks team, you will play a pivotal role in driving growth, delivering real transformation solutions, and shaping the future of the UK’s energy infrastructure. You will combine deep sector expertise with strong consulting skills, leading client engagements and supporting the expansion of our client base (TOs, DNOs, NG, GDNs) across electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks.

Your profile: We’d love to meet someone with:

• Significant experience gained within Consulting within the Energy & Utilities sector, including with one or many of electricity and gas transmission and distribution network companies.
• Highly‑developed consulting skills, meaning experience of working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but 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, as part of a high performing team.
• Commercially astute, with strong financial acumen and a drive to achieve sales and growth targets.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Demonstrable experience of leading teams and delivering successful projects or programmes.
• Deep understanding of sector trends, regulatory environment, and the challenges facing UK energy networks.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive, and able to work independently as well as in teams.
• Commitment to personal and team development, with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.
• Flexibility to travel and work at client sites as required.

You will bring subject matter experience, expertise and intellectual capital across a broad range of advisory, consulting and transformation services in the sector, and your role at Capgemini will include the following key responsibilities:

• Bringing your experience to bear to identify, shape and lead and deliver complex advisory, transformation, and digital projects for clients in the UK energy networks sector.
• Leading the pursuit of new frameworks, opportunities, and projects within the Energy Networks sector.
• Leading engagements with our clients and delivering them with quality, on time and on budget.
• Corporate strategy, business planning and regulatory advisory services ideally within electricity and gas network companies.
• Business and IT operating model, restructuring and performance improvement.
• Large scale business transformation and programme delivery, across areas including system operation, asset management, capital infrastructure, operations, customer and workforce.
• Design and deployment of digital transformation and AI solutions and services.
• Emerging business and digital trends in energy networks, such as intelligent system operations, IoT, advanced analytics, mobile applications, automation, energy management, digital twin and BIM.

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 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.