Senior Manager - Recruitment Technology and Transformation Specialist 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 a Recruitment Technology and Transformation Specialist, you will be responsible for shaping and delivering recruitment technology strategy in response to growing client demand. This role sits at the intersection of recruitment strategy, innovation, and technology enablement, with a particular emphasis on enterprise platforms such as SmartRecruiters and SAP SuccessFactors (Recruitment Management, Recruitment Marketing, Onboarding, and Employee Central), as well as Oracle Recruitment, Workday Talent Acquisition, and the wider recruitment technology ecosystem. The role will drive credibility in the market, influence senior client stakeholders, and position recruitment technology as a core lever of future‑ready talent acquisition.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to global recruitment leaders, shaping their view of the future of recruitment and the technology required to enable it.
• Lead go‑to‑market recruitment technology propositions, specialising in SmartRecruiters implementation, optimisation, and SAP SuccessFactors to SmartRecruiters transitions.
• Design and advise on technology‑enabled recruitment strategies and operating models aligned to business growth and talent priorities.
• Provide deep expertise across the recruitment technology landscape, including ATS, CRM, AI‑driven talent intelligence and automation platforms (e.g. SmartRecruiters, Phenom, Eightfold).
• Drive innovation in recruitment technology, translating emerging trends into practical, scalable solutions for clients.

Your Profile

• 2 years of client facing experience in functional SmartRecruiters Implementation.
• Experience with SmartRecruiters is required with other system experience desirable (e.g. Phenom, Eightfold).
• Demonstrated ability supporting the successful implementation of technology solutions for talent acquisition processes.
• Experience delivering end‑to‑end Talent Acquisition transformation, including Target Operating Model (TOM) design, recruitment process and experience design, technology‑enabled service delivery, and change management.
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having 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.£2m of consulting revenues (Director) /c.4m of consulting revenues (Vice President).

What you’ll love about working here

In a world of digital transformation, the future of work, and the new normal post the pandemic, organisations are facing major disruptions that require People and HR teams to help transform the way they think and act. Our Workforce Transformation team’s purpose is to help our clients rethink the end‑to‑end people experience and support clients with embedding learning in the DNA of their organisation through deep and focused transformation frameworks, leveraging emerging technologies to deliver our client’s shared vision. In your role you will engage with a range of clients to shape and deliver sustainable business outcomes through a variety of programmes which are designed to help clients rapidly adapt to, and navigate through, complex transformations. Partnering with our clients across all industries, you will leverage your expertise to capture, analyse, and document business processes and requirements, and participate in designing solutions to address business requirements and improve people experience. You will be generating innovative ideas and frameworks to help solve problems, provide hands on delivery, and create insightful fact‑based findings and recommendations, identifying and delivering on‑sell or new sales opportunities. Through enabling clients to succeed, you will help Capgemini Invent to maintain its position as the market leader in Digital Transformation consulting. It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to build our Workforce Transformation team. You will take an active role within our practice, through co‑creating a culture in which every team‑member feels comfortable bringing their whole self to work and is empowered to deliver great work, grow and be free to innovate and have fun along the way.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 you 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.

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.

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 350,000 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.