Agile Coaching - Consultant / Senior Consultant (London/Manchester/Glasgow)

Who you’ll be working with:

 

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.

 

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

 

About Capgemini Invent

 

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion

 

Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability. 
An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable).  We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success.  When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

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An overview of the role:

 

This is an opportunity to join an exciting and fast-growing Agile transformation team that is spearheading Agile and Scaled Agile transformations across a number of our strategic clients. This team has helped organisations improve their ability to deliver iterative change at the pace they need to succeed. The team consists of consultants who specialise in culture change, tooling, training and coaching to embed Agile practices and Agile ways of working to help achieve the organisations’ business objectives.

We take our clients on a journey from strategy through to execution that enables them to:

•    Develop an Agile culture to improve business outcomes 
•    Create lean-Agile, market-leading operating models
•    Embrace and drive significant value from new technologies
•    Deliver digital solutions reliably at scale, cheaper and faster

We are looking for talented candidates with prior experience in roles such as Product Owner, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Business Analyst etc.  to join our Agile transformation team to coach our clients in embracing the shift to Agile and Scaled Agile ways of working.  
 

What you’ll do:

 

As a Consultant, you will coach a team and produce high-quality deliverables, providing key inputs to shape new ways for working for our strategic clients. You will also be involved in running workshops with client leadership teams, coaching teams around Agile ways of working, and leading Agile ceremonies for large client teams. Consultants will also contribute to wider digital transformation initiatives within the client strategic transformation.

As a Senior Consultant, in addition to the above you will be an able to lead a workstream and steer client teams in decisions on agile related topics. You will also have the stakeholder management skills for working with senior clients, up to C-suite level.

For more senior Agile practitioners, with further relevant experience, please apply via the “Management Consultant - Agile Coaching and Transformation – Senior / Experienced Practitioner
 

Why you?

 

You will have acted as a Coach or worked within an Agile team or in roles such as a Business Analyst, Scrum Master or Product Owner. You’ll have a passion for innovative thinking, and the ability to drive change in the ways a client operates, whilst having a good understanding of what is required to embed agile ways for working. Confident working in a technology-driven environment (but not necessarily from an IT background or an expert in IT), you will bring proven skills and experience in delivering within an agile team or scaled agile delivery model.

Ideally, you will have experience within one or more of Financial Services, Government, Utilities, Consumer Products, Retail, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Telecommunication or Media. 

 

You will bring some of the below:

•    Hands-on experience of introducing and embedding agile and scaled agile practices, such as Kanban, Scrum of Scrums and PI Planning 
•    Experience of working with business and IT teams in shaping Agile ways of working and undertaking Agile coaching; running agile ceremonies, creating Agile adoption roadmaps
•    Experience of assessing Agile maturity and coming up with an improvement plan
•    Knowledge of how to accelerate Agile adoption by managing the cultural, governance, environmental and organisational changes
•    Experience in coaching leaders to adopt agile ways of working and a servant leadership mindset   
•    Experience with agile tooling such as such as Jira, Confluence, Target Process, Rally, Azure DevOps etc.   
•    A proven coaching, training and mentoring skillset in Agile delivery and Agile rollout, being able to show a Lean-Agile mindset and customer centricity
•    Potentially have a relevant industry certification such as Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Agilist, Agile Coaching (ICAgile)

We are hiring all levels of experience. Whether you have been working as part of a small team or leading large complex engagements, we have the role for you. If you have the right mindset and you are passionate about the role, we will provide you with bespoke training and the support to build all the skills you require. 
 

Why us?

 

You’ll be free to make your role and your career what you want it to be.  Proactivity and ambition flourish at Capgemini Invent. There are countless opportunities available to propel your development forward: seek out those that suit you, and we will back you all the way.  In summary, we believe the following make this a great place to work:

•    Show how single minds make for better teams:  Work alongside fierce intellects who love to collaborate.
•    Be comfortable outside your comfort zone:  Self-stretchers thrive in our environment.
•    Build momentum in your career: Make your role and your career what you want it to be.
•    Stay true to who you are: Play to your strengths and bring your individuality.
•    Aim for nothing less than leading edge: We thrive on the knowledge that the Digital work we do has real impact.
•    Give your curiosity freedom and focus:  A place where inquisitiveness and entrepreneurial thinking are encouraged.

 

The work:

 

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time. We help some of the largest and most complex organisations as well as start-ups wanting to scale at pace.  
 

Collaboration and Innovation:

 

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you’ll get to know the customer’s needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It’ll help you discover unexpected answers together. 
 

Diversity

Capgemini positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We are committed to hiring, developing and retaining the best people to deliver innovative, world-class solutions for our clients.  We foster an inclusive culture that enables everyone to achieve their full potential and enjoy a fulfilling career with us. Our comprehensive flexible benefits package and lifestyle policies enable our employees to balance their individual, family and work-life needs.
 

Learning and development:

There’s an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. Specifically for Agile, we will provide you the opportunity to upskill in scaled Agile and other Agile related training and certifications. So, you’ll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaines (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all of our teams.
 

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 an 8th 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.

 

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.
 

More information is at available at: https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/service/invent/