Graduate Client Account Manager

Capgemini; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the digital and sustainable transformation sector is seeking a Client Account Manager for its Manchester office. In this role, you'll help develop relationships with clients, drive new business, and foster innovation. You'll gain exposure to diverse areas including sales, technology, and client management, with an initial focus on building your sales skills within a structured programme designed for growth.

Qualifications

• Strong verbal, written, listening, and presentation skills.
• Experience: Placement year or 6+ months in a similar business environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, qualify, and close sales opportunities.
• Manage customer relationships and support business growth.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Self-Management

Technology Awareness

Industry Insight

Resilience

Collaboration

Digital & Cloud Knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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Base Locations: London, Birmingham and Manchester

Intake: October 2025

Salary: £30,000

About The Job You’re Considering

You’ll join one of our UK market units:

• Public Sector,
• Energy Transition and Utilities,
• Manufacturing Automotive and Life Sciences
  
  

Working within market-facing teams, primarily made up of Client Partners who manage client relationships, working as a trusted advisor with clients to drive new business, and foster innovation for complex business issues.

Firstly, you’ll develop an understanding of how Capgemini works with its clients to deliver positive outcomes that solve their challenges.

As you develop, you’ll build a broad base of knowledge across a range of areas including sales, technology, delivery, commercial, and finance to support your growth.

At an appropriate point in your move into a full account management role, taking on responsibility for your own client contacts (as part of a wider account team or for your own account) and you will be expected to carry a sales target which you will be measured against.

You'll also be involved in a variety of activities with the focus on winning new business.

Your role

This will include the following areas, although you will grow into this as part of your development: Capgeminis, partners to create and deliver leading-edge business and technology solutions that drive results and excite our clients.

Use your own initiative and personal drive to produce successful results whilst working effectively in a team. At an appropriate point in your development, having absorbed the various aspects of the business you will move into a full account management role, taking on responsibility for your own client contacts as part of a wider account team or for your own account and you will be expected to carry a sales target which you will be measured against - You will be involved in a variety of activities with the focus on winning new business.

• Identify, develop, qualify, and close sales opportunities.
• Build and manage relationships with clients, internal teams, suppliers, and partners.
• Lead on contractual, delivery, and commercial matters for your clients.
• Manage CRM pipelines and prepare key month-end reports.
• Create account plans, including market and competitor analysis.
• Review, analyse, and respond to tenders, working closely with delivery teams to shape solutions.
  
  

Your Skills And Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree.
• Work Experience: Placement year or 6+ months in a similar business environment.
• Communication: Strong verbal, written, listening, and presentation skills.
• Relationship Building: Eager to connect with clients and colleagues.
• Self-Management: Confidence in setting and managing goals and workload.
• Technology Awareness: Understanding of how technology drives business transformation and a desire to expand knowledge.
• Industry Insight: Awareness of market trends, competition, and sector challenges.
• Resilience: Ability to thrive under pressure.
• Collaboration: Works well both independently and in teams.
• Digital & Cloud Knowledge: Some understanding of their role in today’s market.
  
  

Your programme

Capgemini’s Empower Programme is designed around 6 Power Skills required to succeed in this rapidly changing world of work, developing skills such as resilience, adaptability, and critical thinking. You’ll experience virtual and in-person workshops, hackathons & business challenges throughout the programme as well as community and volunteering opportunities.

With fun as one of our seven core values, we balance work with laughter & celebrations and as a part of Capgemini’s Emerging & Early Talent (E&ET) community you’ll get to enjoy awards, social events, and conferences alongside your structured programme and development.

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergoBaseline Personnel Security Standard checks.

There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.

There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Note:You will have lived in the UK for the last five years with no more than 6 months out of the country (in order to meet security clearance requirements). You may be required to work away from home during the week after the initial training period.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want’ mean for you?

Impactful Experiences:You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Shape Your Path:You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Capgemini. Get The Future You Want.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

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 fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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