Senior Manager - Sustainable Technology (London/Manchester/Glasgow)
At Capgemini Invent, we bring to life what’s next for our clients.
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.
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.
Capgemini Invent combines strategy, technology, data science and creative design to solve the most complex business and technology challenges, with the mission to “unleash human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future”.
Right now, UK businesses face unprecedented pressure. With a growing public expectation to build back better; there is a clear commercial case for business to shape and lead the change required for a sustainable, regenerative future. Systemic social and environmental issues combined with the pace of technical and business innovations represent an opportunity for business to align sustainable development to their strategy; to lead with an authentic purpose to reshape the future.
It is a business imperative to create long-term value in the context of a sustainable economy.
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An overview of the role:
To deliver long term, sustainable value for Capgemini Invent UK clients, enabling them with fresh perspectives and digital solutions so that they can play a transformative role in addressing planetary, people and systems challenges through operationalising sustainability.
The work:
Our service offering, Sustainable IT, will enable you to leverage the vast power of technology to help the industry become a source for sustainable behaviour in business. Every organisation across all industries has an IT division, with the potential to lead that company to net-zero and beyond.
To help our clients on this journey, there is a requirement to establish new thinking and solutions that enable business to play a transformative role in addressing planetary, people and systems challenges.
The role will include responsibility for client facing consultation, drafting winning sustainability solutions/ technology proposals and project delivery in collaboration with UK sector and business market units colleagues for industry specific client opportunities, that embed purpose and operationalise sustainability.
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?
As an individual contributor and senior member of the team you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team. Key expectations from this role include:
• Identify sustainability strengths, gaps and focus areas in current IT architecture (As-Is), and iterate upon solutions to increase client maturity in this area (To-Be)
• Identify, partner with, and leverage emerging green technology to assist the clients in their sustainable IT transformations
• With key focus on innovation, work with the teams to identify areas and aspects of demonstrating sustainable benefits, use cases and initiatives through innovative sustainable technology ideas e.g. block chain for sustainability reporting, use of AI/ ML concepts in sustainability
• Leverage data analytics, ML, blockchain and AI to generate durable, long-term solutions which will enable clients to become leading global brands in sustainability and to plan effectively for the future
• Client facing consultation and strategy development across a broad range of sustainable business challenges and digital innovation
• Tailored analysis and assessment of client IT estate infrastructure and organisational layout across the sustainability pillars of environment, social and governance (ESG)
• Prepare reports, proposals, and presentations in response to tenders for new and existing clients
• Be a champion of sustainability within Capgemini and to proactively embed it within company culture through being a proponent of our internal sustainability strategy and leadership messages and mentoring colleagues seeking to develop experience in sustainability or other professional contexts
• Lead articulation of assigned program elements in whitepapers, reports, presentations, rating submissions.
• Has a proven track record in structuring & selling B2C and/ or B2B tech products (SaaS etc) or charitable/for-good initiatives or sustainability solutions/ tools solutions directly to businesses.
• Can learn and build upon what our clients are really after, and someone who can identify how to make propositions painkillers vs vitamins.
• Is happy to work on both smaller and larger deals simultaneously
• Is driven as much by purpose as by financials
Why you?
• Demonstrated client-facing experience within the technology industry, i.e. sales engineering, software/hardware sales, consulting, business development, implementation, partnerships, etc - ideally within the sustainability space
• Creative thinking and new ideas around how technology can become more sustainable and can accelerate organisational sustainability
• Strong knowledge - i.e. education or professional background - of the numerous, complex moving parts of the sustainability sector and a passion to make an impact
• 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.
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating and/ or contributing to £1 million in sales.
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
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.
Work/Life Harmony:
We understand that everyone has varied lives and we want you to have a great work-life balance. So, where possible, our Work Life Harmony policy will help you to work flexibly and juggle your work and home life.
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 9th 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/