Managing Consultant (Manager) - Workforce Transformation

Capgemini; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Management Consultant to work on Workforce Transformation projects. You will collaborate with clients across various industries to address skills gaps and develop effective workplace strategies. This role requires a background in consulting and strong communication skills, offering opportunities for business development and project leadership. Join us to help organizations navigate complex workforce challenges and achieve impactful transformations.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support

Inclusive company culture

Qualifications

• Background in consulting, preferably with experience at Capgemini.
• Experience leading large-scale workforce transformation programmes.
• Strong communication skills to engage various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape workforce strategies to tackle skills gaps and development.
• Lead cross-functional teams to effect change.
• Deliver workforce transformation programmes across sectors.

Skills

Consulting background

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Experience in workforce transformation

Business development

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

People analytics tools

Workforce planning tools

Job description

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.

Our brand promise "Get The Future You Want" reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company's commitment to inclusion and sustainability. An important aspect of 'Get the Future You Want' is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work‑life balance and feel empowered to achieve success.

YOUR ROLE

As a Management Consultant in the Workforce & Organisation practice, specifically in Workforce Transformation, you'll work with clients across a broad range of industries from Financial Services to Retail, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, and Energy & Utilities. Your role will involve helping organisations tackle critical challenges related to current and future skills, talent strategies, workplace culture, and the impact of technology and automation on the future of work.

You'll be part of a collaborative team of problem solvers with diverse consulting and industry experience, supporting clients from strategy through to execution. Together, you'll help them navigate complex business issues and deliver meaningful, lasting change.

This Position will offer you the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with clients to shape workforce strategies that address skills gaps, talent development, organisational culture, and the impact of emerging technologies.
• Influence senior stakeholders and lead cross‑functional teams through change, fostering collaboration, capability building, and sustainable outcomes.
• Deliver complex, large‑scale workforce transformation programmes across sectors, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Design and implement future‑focused workforce strategies that respond to evolving organisational goals, skills requirements, and employee expectations.
• Support the adoption of new ways of working that enhance employee experience, wellbeing, and performance across diverse teams.

As part of your role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Lead/contribute to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Lead 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

You will take an active role within our practice, working collaboratively to co‑create an inclusive, future‑ready function, that we love working for and our clients both enjoy and value partnering with. In your role, you will contribute fresh ideas and conceptual frameworks to help solve complex challenges, deliver hands‑on support, and generate insightful evidence‑based findings and recommendations to help clients rapidly adapt to, and navigate through, complex Workforce Transformations.

Key Expectations from this role include:

• A background in consulting, either currently in a consulting firm or having transitioned from industry with prior consulting experience.
• We deliver across all Capgemini's market sectors but skills and experience in Energy & Utilities, Defence, Financial Services and Consumer Products is advantageous.
• Ability to thrive in a matrixed environment, gaining buy‑in from peers to sell and deliver impactful solutions.
• Experience in business development, including leading or supporting bids, proposals, and deal structuring.
• Proven track record in developing and delivering consulting propositions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels and share informed perspectives on workforce trends and challenges.
• Experience leading large‑scale workforce transformation programmes, delivering measurable outcomes and identifying opportunities for continued engagement.
• Capability in managing teams and multiple workstreams in complex delivery settings, while contributing to practice growth and mentoring junior colleagues.

You will have proven experience in one or more of the following key areas of expertise:

• Delivered a technology‑enabled people transformation initiatives with experience across People Strategy, Skills Based Organisation, Workforce Skilling Strategies, Competency Frameworks, Digital Skills Academies, Learner Experience, Learning Management Systems.
• Deep understanding of leveraging technology and AI for key workforce interventions such as workforce and DEI strategies, learning, up/reskilling, culture interventions, hybrid working policies and target operating models, and organisational design.
• Delivered a range of Workforce & People Transformation projects and solutions with experience of working on complex People datasets and models, people analytics tools, workforce planning tools and business intelligence tools.
• Managing end‑to‑end organisational culture transformation programmes, including those linked to new technologies, operating models, or ways of working (e.g. agile, hybrid).
• Lead teams in the design and delivery of culture change programmes, bringing expertise in behaviour change, assessment tools, and user adoption. Combine hands‑on delivery with thought leadership to shape impactful client solutions and grow internal capability.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE:

You'll be joining a fast‑growing Workforce Transformation team at Capgemini Invent, where we're shaping the future of work through bold thinking, cutting‑edge technology, and people‑first solutions. Our projects are dynamic, high‑impact, and span industries giving you the opportunity to work on meaningful transformations that help clients thrive while building a practice that's inclusive, collaborative, and genuinely exciting to be part of.

We're proud to be recognised as one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work in the UK for four consecutive years, a reflection of our vibrant culture, inspiring leadership, and commitment to employee wellbeing. As part of our Workforce Transformation team, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues, exciting opportunities, and the chance to make a real impact. Visit our Glassdoor page to hear directly from our people.

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.

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.