Director - Digital Excellence (Energy Transition & Utilities market)

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Why join us?

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.

The energy transition is a generation‑defining challenge. But we believe it’s not just what it averts, but what it enables in our economy and society, that matters. We envision a world in which energy is clean, affordable and abundant, powering a new wave of industrial growth and social opportunity.

The energy industry’s transition to clean energy is a fundamental enabler for every other industry’s ability to reach net‑zero. The transition also provides a huge opportunity to positively impact the human side of business: deeper customer relationships, consumer perception and talent attraction.

Helping energy and utilities organisations to harness the vast economic and societal potential of the energy transition and build a better future is our passion and purpose.

Your role

As part of the huge growth in demand in our Energy Transition & Utilities practice, we are seeking an experienced senior leader to join our highly talented team, working on the pursuit and delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services across our sector. Our clients within Energy Transition & Utilities include those within the sub‑sectors of Energy Networks, Energy Retail, Energy Central Markets, Water and Nuclear.

Driven by major investment in the sector and the unique position of our Capgemini Invent business, we are seeing a significant increase in demand for our services and teams. Our vast utilities experience, strong strategic and business transformation skillset, a deep understanding of digital, data and A and a highly collaborative approach has allowed us to build a successful track record of delivering leading edge consulting services and solutions for our clients.

This role is designed to further expand and strengthen our position in this market. As a Director in our business, you’ll help set the direction, drive forward the business, own senior client relationships, orchestrate teams from across our business, model our values and behaviours and coach and develop junior members of the team.

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

• Significant experience gained within Consulting within the Energy & Utilities sector, including with one or many of electricity and gas transmission and distribution businesses, energy retailers, central market bodies, water companies and nuclear businesses.
• Highly developed consulting skills, meaning experience of working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but with a Consulting background.
• Substantial business development experience, with the ability to leverage your personal network and the organisation’s broader pre‑existing relationships, to generate at least £2m pa of consulting revenues and enable larger revenues across our business.
• 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, with a track record of building and leading high‑performing teams.
• Extensive experience of working with senior leadership in shaping Digital transformation programmes, designing/embedding operating models to create and embed new products.
• Experience of transforming IT and OT business functions within clients, driving programme delivery in line with business strategic goals.
• Have experience in delivering digital delivery and innovation to clients within Energy, Transition and Utilities sector, applying expertise to our business development activities.
• Have knowledge or experience implementing one (or more) of the following: Smart grid technologies, IoT asset management technologies, data platform modernisation, proactive monitoring tools, CRM systems for billing, field service optimisation, digital twin technologies.
• Be an Expert in Digital Delivery & Strategy with a specialisation in understanding how multidisciplinary teams can deliver digital transformation, new experiences and embed emerging technology, along with an understanding of business change/adoption.
• Have expert facilitation skills for Program Planning / Product Vision, Design Thinking, Strategy, Definition, Roadmap, Visioning etc.
• 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).

What you’ll love about working here

Need to know

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. 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.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations 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 340,000 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 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing. Industries – Business Consulting and Services.