Management Consultant - Manufacturing Systems Engineering - Strategy and Transformation

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 12,000+ 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 325,000 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, fuelled 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

Get The Future You Want

As a globally renowned technology and digital leader, we have the responsibility, the ambition, and the means to contribute to solving major societal questions that are shaping our future world. Invent for Society aims to value how social impact is part of the fabric of what we do.

 

An overview of the role:

As part of the Digital Engineering team in Invent you will work on high profile, impactful projects with industry leading organisations to helping them to define the journey to transforming the way in which organisations develop and manufacture products and then support and maintain those products throughout their lifecycle.

 

The work is varied and you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of client facing projects across multiple industry sectors. Projects may touch on various aspects of the management of products throughout their lifecycle ranging from product design and development, product manufacture and through life product support and maintenance.

 

You will use technical and business knowledge together with Industry 4.0 and 5.0 concepts to help clients develop the justifications for change together with defining the aspects they need to put in place to realise their ambitions which would cover transformation roadmaps and business cases, operating model design and solution architectures. 

 

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.

 

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. 

 

Why this role?

Through your work you will continually be challenged and will gain new skills and experiences through undertaking high profile projects which complement and improve your core expertise, enabling you to make a positive, lasting impact for Capgemini and our clients 

 

You’ll work on projects that transform every aspect of a clients’ product development, manufacturing and product support operations to deliver sustained business benefits across profitability, efficiency, quality and embed new behavioural change. You will be able to work with colleagues from other parts of Capgemini including Capgemini Engineering, Hybrid Intelligence and Cambridge Consultants to develop compelling and comprehensive propositions to our clients.  

 

Within the UK, we are amongst the fastest growing and most successful consultancies, a testament to the tangible results that we continue to deliver with our clients.  To continue this exciting growth, we are looking to recruit high calibre Digital Engineering experts who can really make a difference for our clients on their Intelligent Industry journey. 

Why you?

We’re growing our team and looking for a wide range of skills and levels of experiences. We’d like to hear from you if you are early on in your career, just as much if you have management consulting experience or indeed have held senior manager roles in Digital Engineering.  

We are looking for entrepreneurial individuals with the knowledge and creativity to deliver truly inventive solutions to our clients. 

You’ll bring engineering, manufacturing transformation, and/or product lifecycle management or equivalent experience.  This experience could have been gained through operational, technical or leadership roles in industry, or through delivering major consulting assignments for blue-chip consulting organisations. 

Depending on the stage you are at in your career, we’re looking for appropriate levels of knowledge and/or experience of engineering and ideally manufacturing operations, including one or more of the following areas: 

 

• Bachelors or master’s in Engineering or Manufacturing related degree
• Good knowledge of manufacturing operations from one or more of the following industry sectors – Automotive, Aerospace and Defence, Engineering, FMCG and Life Sciences
• Strong understanding of the technologies underpinning manufacturing operations and their respective capabilities this should include one or more of the following – MRP, MES, SCADA, IT/OT
• Appreciation of digital twin concepts and their applications to manufacturing 
• Value Stream Mapping, Manufacturing Capacity Audit and/or Operations Strategy 
• Lean manufacturing toolbox familiarity, Lean Six Sigma Green / Black Belt Certificate as a plus  
• Process and capability models for engineering, manufacturing and through life support
• Innovation and product lifecycle management processes and value drivers 
• Agile and Lean based delivery methods 
• Experience in either/both TPM and TQM would also be beneficial
• Professional Systems Engineering certification from an organisation such as INCOSE, or the desire to work towards it

 

Personal attributes:

 

• Comfortable using data and analytics to drive decision making, implement new ways of working and change operational behaviours.
• You’ll be experienced in consulting methods and approaches, or have skills that are readily transferable such as agile methodologies, lean six sigma and statistical process control 
• You have a passion and understanding of Intelligent Industry and how Digital Engineering transformation manifests in the ever-changing digital world, with a thirst for thinking ‘what is next’.
• You’re able to articulate your views on the future of Intelligent Industry and Digital Engineering, and the future of specific industry sectors. 
• You bring a solid track record of successful and profitable project delivery, can work independently as well as in teams - in our collaborative but sometimes demanding project environment.
• You have a passion for development, coaching others and improving performance.
• You have the ability to identify business issues, developing possible solutions and taking those into client proposals; and have some experience in selling work to clients.
• You possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly and efficiently across all levels of Capgemini, client, and 3rd party organisations.
• You demonstrate professionalism, flexibility, and resilience – being able to adjust positively to situations that involve changing tasks and/or location, shifting priorities or ambiguity.

 

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. So you’ll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (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/