Consultant - Logistics

Capgemini Invent; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Capgemini Invent in the UK seeks a Logistics Consultant to shape and deliver innovative supply chain solutions, including warehouse and transport operations, automation, robotics, and AI-enabled technologies.

You will lead the Logistics team, drive operational capabilities, and contribute to business development, internal campaigns, and learning initiatives, while coaching junior staff.

Qualifications

• Experience in warehouse operations within a logistics environment and ability to optimise operations.
• Experience in multimodal transport operations and process optimization.
• Familiar with project delivery governance and both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Background as a management consultant or in business improvement programmes with diverse teams.
• Ideally, experience implementing industry-leading WMS solutions.
• Understanding of Supply Chain solutions integrating with WMS, OMS, TMS.

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to proposals, RFPs, bids, and client pitches.
• Develop and deliver logistics capabilities including warehouses, transport, and related digital solutions.
• Coach and develop junior team members and support internal practice development.
• Collaborate with software vendors and manage relationships across a matrixed organisation.

Skills

Warehouse operations

Multimodal transport operations

Waterfall and agile methodologies

Management consulting

WMS integration

TMS/OMS integration

Testing methods and tools

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Matrixed organisation experience

Tools

WMS

TMS

OMS

Job description

Capgemini Invent

The Strategy and Transformation consultant supports Capgemini clients to innovate and develop new strategies, services and products. He/she designs and implements new business and operating models and brings to life the organizations of the future. He/she develops customer insights, organizational knowledge and market perspectives.

Your Role

An exciting opportunity to be part of a team that will form an integral part of Capgemini’s Logistics squad delivering a broad set of solutions to new and existing clients. This will be made up of core capabilities of Warehouse and Transport management and many new and exciting complimentary solutions including automation, robotics and many new digital and AI based technologies. The scope of our offering will also include WMS, TMS, OMS and in-store technology, forming part of the wider connected supply chain.

As a Logistics Consultant, you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the Logistics team, developing our Operational, Warehouse and Transport capabilities. You will model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team.

Role

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'd Love To Meet Someone With

• Previous experience of warehouse operations in a Logistics environment who can demonstrate a clear understanding of warehouse processes and optimisation of operations.
• Previous experience of multimodal transport operations in a Logistics environment who can demonstrate a clear understanding of transport processes and optimisation of transport operations.
• Experience of contributing toproject teams to understand the wider approach to project delivery and governance, with experience of both waterfall and agile methodologies
• Experience as a management consultant or experience in business improvement programmes, including working in diverse teams with global or regional impact
• Ideally, experience of implementing industry leading WMS solutions
• A clear understanding of the integrated nature of Supply Chain solutions that integrate with the WMS and onward processes once stock leaves the warehouse e.g., Planning Solutions, OMS, TMS, In store
• Ideally, experience of implementing TMS and/ or other Supply Chain solutions (see above), and with experience of managing and developing relationships with software vendors
• An understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of strategic Logistics software solutions
• Experience of testing process experience and who can demonstrate a clear understanding of testing methods, tools and strategies
• Strong Stakeholder management/ engagement skills and ability to demonstrate management approach
• Ability to update on progress, both verbally and in written reports/ updates at different levels of the project
• A customer first mentality
• Experience of producing and managing budgets in a sales and project delivery environment and who can demonstrate process and approach
• The ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.

What You'll Love About Working Here

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), with a wide variety of clients and sectors, so you will gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

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 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. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.