Workforce Transformation - Senior Consultant 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

• Client Engagement and Advisory: Partnering with client stakeholders to understand organizational goals, assess workforce challenges, and shape transformation agendas.
• Provide advisory services on workforce trends, talent management, leadership development, skills strategies, and workplace culture.
• Developing and implementing talent acquisition and management solutions, enhancing learning and development programs to address skills gaps and future capabilities, and advising on workforce planning that aligns with business strategy and market trends.
• Lead cultural transformation initiatives, foster inclusive, high‑performing environments and guide organizations through behavioural change.
• Lead scoping, planning, and delivery of workforce transformation projects, ensuring solutions are innovative, data‑driven, aligned with client objectives and industry best practices.
• Facilitate workshops, focus groups, and leadership sessions to co‑create solutions, build consensus, and drive stakeholder buy‑in.
• Nurture client relationships, contribute to thought leadership, monitor industry trends, innovate our offers and capabilities to ensure a forward‑thinking approach.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.

You’re not expected to be an expert in all aspects of workforce transformation; it’s preferable to have depth of experience in one area from Talent, Skills, Learning, Workforce Planning and Culture.

As an example, the types of activities that you will get involved in include:

• Conducting skills gap analyses, mapping current and future capabilities, and developing career and/or learning pathways that align with business needs and employee aspirations.
• Co‑creating and implementing career pathways, learning strategy and learning journeys that support internal mobility and talent development.
• Designing and delivering reskilling, learning and culture change programmes.
• Partnering with HR, L&D, and business leaders to align workforce initiatives with goals.
• Supporting the integration of skills and learning frameworks into existing HR systems (e.g., LMS, talent management platforms).
• Providing actionable insights and recommendations based on workforce data and analytics.
• Supporting change management and communication plans to embed new frameworks and tools effectively.

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 – 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

We’re looking for candidates who bring a combination of the following experiences and strengths. You don’t need to meet every criterion—if you’re excited by the role and have relevant skills, we’d love to hear from you.

• You will work and communicate with all levels of our organisation, be knowledgeable on market trends and challenges across HR, Learning, Skills and bring your own point of view to share with colleagues and clients.
• A growth mindset and a desire to work in a client facing role, solving complex challenges are most important.
• Skilled at establishing brilliant working relationships with clients and teams – helping us achieve the highest standards of quality and widening our reach.
• We are interested in meeting candidates that are currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in an industry with a Consulting background.
• Desirable if you have proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience in Agile Methodology, Design Thinking and Change Management is desirable.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• You need to be Security Cleared or eligible to obtain it.

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 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 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.