Managing Consultant- Change Management- Consumer Products & Retail 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.

Workforce and Organisation is a core Capgemini Invent capability unit that puts people at the heart of everything we do. We combine strategy, process, people, technology, and data working across all sectors to transform technology, organisations, and society. W&O are made up of three capability teams, including Programme & Change Acceleration (‘P&CA’) which is the focus of this specific role. P&CA houses Capgemini Invent’s transformation programme delivery and change experts.

YOUR ROLE

As a Managing Consultant with expertise in Change Management, you will deliver complex client business transformation initiatives across a variety of sectors with an initial focus on delivering high impact change within Consumer Products and Retail. You will help clients to successfully navigate outsourcing and wider transformation programmes by shaping and delivering change initiatives.

You will play a key role in:

• Client Delivery: Leading the delivery of key workstreams or medium sized and complex client business transformation initiatives. Managing client contracts, budgets and resourcing profile. Leading teams on client delivery and being a mentor/coach to junior team members; enabling capability development and growth of our team.
• Business Development: Driving development of new Change Management offerings by leveraging existing assets and incorporating fresh insights to strengthen our approach and services.
• Internal Contribution: Playing a role in the Programme and Change Practice, enacting and delivering on the 2026 strategy. Contributing to business and personal growth through activities such as leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, and client hosting at events.

YOUR PROFILE

Essential skills:

• Proven experience leading global outsourcing and transformation programmes, including end-to-end design and delivery of employee transition strategies.
• Skilled in managing workforce transitions across jurisdictions while ensuring compliance and managing risk.
• Skilled in global rollouts and adapting stakeholder engagement and communications to diverse cultural contexts.
• Experience of delivering complex, multi-supplier transformation initiatives across various industries including Consumer Products and Retail.
• Expertise in strategic change management, stakeholder management and change delivery.
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm.
• Commercial acumen to determine the best way to structure a deal for mutual benefit to clients and Capgemini.
• Ability to identify opportunities to enhance our change leadership and delivery through automation, advanced tooling, and tailored methodologies.
• Proven ability to foster and grow client relationships.
• Experience and expertise of multiple delivery approaches and methodologies, particularly the adoption of hybrid delivery models that combine traditional change approaches with Agile frameworks.

Desirable skills and/or experience:

• Holds related qualifications PROSCI Change Practitioner, APMG Change qualifications or equivalent PRINCE2 Practitioner or agile equivalents MSP, MoP, and/or P3O from Axelos.
• 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 leading the transition from sales into delivery.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE:

The Programme and Change Acceleration team is at the heart of the transformational consultancy services Capgemini Invent deliver for our clients. We act as Capgemini Invent's programme and change management center of excellence, focused on the design and delivery of business transformations. Our Change Management offer helps organisations to navigate and mitigate the people-related challenges that come with complex transformations. Whilst our Programme Management offer equips organisations with the tools necessary to ensure successful delivery execution.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 5 consecutive years and voted in the top 10 for 2025.

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 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.

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.

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 on 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.