Consulting Programme / Solutions Director: Key Deals - Energy Transition & Utilities

Capgemini; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Leader in London to drive transformation within the Energy Transition & Utilities sector. This position requires extensive consulting experience, a successful track record in delivering digital transformation programmes, and strong skills in business development and team leadership. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, contributing to client engagements and managing teams to deliver high-quality results. Flexible working arrangements are available, promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Training and development programs

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of project and operational performance.
• Successful track record in digital transformational programmes.
• Experience in large complex programmes as a director or manager.
• Significant consulting experience in energy and utilities sector.
• Proven ability to create solutions collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Shape and win new opportunities and programme structures.
• Define and deliver digital-enabled business transformation programmes.
• Lead teams to achieve high quality delivery.
• Contribute to propositions and practice development.
• Build strong client relationships.

Skills

Business development

Project management

Consulting experience

Team leadership

Client relationship management

Education

Relevant degree or professional qualification

Job description

Why Join Capgemini Invent?

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.

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 highly collaborative approach has allowed us to build a successful track record of delivering leading edge consulting services and solutions for our clients.

You will combine deep sector expertise with strong consulting skills, leading client engagements and supporting the expansion of our client base across electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks. Specifically, you will deliver 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.
• Project Delivery - Leading engagements with our clients and delivering them with quality, on time and on budget.
• 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 key responsibilities will include:

• Shape and win new opportunities, defining and delivering the programme structure, resourcing, delivery approach and competitive commercial model to successfully deliver the change that solves our clients' most pressing challenges.
• Define and deliver digital‑enabled business transformation programmes to implement our client's strategic initiatives.
• Lead and manage teams to achieve high quality delivery focused on client value.
• Contribute to our propositions, in conjunction with our global network, to enable our success in the market.
• Contribute to growing and leading our Energy Transition & Utilities business and our team.
• Model the values of Capgemini across internal and client relationships.
• Leveraging the power of our global Capgemini organisation to drive high quality delivery and client success.
• Build strong, long‑lasting client relationships as a trusted advisor at all levels.

Your Profile

You will be someone who is excited by working on challenging projects and building a team and business that will grow together, someone that has:

• A strong understanding of what drives project and operational performance and experience in deploying scalable business and technology solutions.
• A successful track record in the definition and delivery digital transformational programmes.
• Broad experience of delivery within large complex programmes, typically in programme director, programme manager and project management roles.
• Significant experience gained within consulting in the energy and utilities sector.
• The ability to collaboratively create winning solutions – taking a client issue, and working with the client, account team and across Capgemini to create a solution that the client can approve.
• The ability to develop and lead diverse teams, spanning the client environment, multiple business unit and multi‑national.
• The ability to build enduring relationships, at all levels of an organisation based on high integrity and trust.
• An entrepreneurial flair and a willingness to take calculated risks, alongside a keen appetite to develop new skills.

We'd love to meet someone with:

• 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.
• The ability to collaboratively create winning solutions – taking a client issue, and working with the client, account team and across Capgemini to create a solution that the client can approve.
  • 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 inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring your 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.

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.

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.

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 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.