Senior Manager - Energy Transition & Utilities - Programme Management

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Programme Manager, where you will lead transformative digital initiatives that drive business value for clients. This role offers the chance to shape high-performing teams and foster strategic relationships, all while contributing to a culture of collaboration and innovation. With a focus on delivering successful outcomes, you will leverage your leadership skills and project management expertise to navigate complex challenges. Be part of a dynamic team that values diversity and inclusion, and enjoy flexible working arrangements that support your well-being. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a global organization committed to ethical practices and sustainability.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Training and development opportunities

Mental health support

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven track record in delivering complex projects and programmes.
• Experience in a client-facing consulting role with strong leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own delivery of digital-enabled programmes for clients.
• Develop long-term strategic relationships and support business growth.

Skills

Leadership

Client Engagement

Project Management

Strategic Thinking

Collaboration

Business Development

Education

Degree in Business or Engineering

Certifications in Project Management

Tools

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

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.

Your role:

As a Programme Manager in our ET&U business, you’ll play a key role in delivering on our strategy and continuing our growth trajectory. You’ll be able to demonstrate leadership in both a client and internal context, model our values and develop the team around you.

You will have a highly collaborative approach that is underpinned by clear and structured thinking, a solid foundation in relevant methodologies, a successful delivery track-record, senior engagement skills and a balanced focus on achieving outcomes and outputs. You’ll demonstrate a high level of drive and be able to motivate the teams around you.

In this role you will:

• Shape, lead and own the delivery of digital-enabled programmes that implement our clients’ strategic initiatives, focusing on business value and achieving successful outcomes for our Clients’ and for Capgemini.
• Create and grow high-performing delivery teams, leveraging the breadth of our capabilities across Capgemini Invent, the Capgemini Group, our Alliance Partners and our Clients’ own capabilities.
• Collaborate with our client account teams to develop long-term strategic client relationships and growth, enabled through your leadership in quality, value, and successful delivery.
• Unlock further growth through fantastic delivery, identifying and owning sell-on opportunities.
• Proactively support our key pursuits for new programme opportunities, bringing a relentless focus on winning by delivering differentiated and commercially attractive programme solutions.
• Play an active role in our Delivery Excellence community, mentoring and coaching colleagues to be their best, shaping the evolution of our delivery assets.

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 pitches.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities).
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc. We have an active global delivery community and career development programme.

Your profile:

• You’ll exhibit the Capgemini Invent DNA – blending great client-centric delivery, empowering our people to achieve a high performance mindset, highly collaborative behaviours, and ownership of delivering the outcomes that our clients and our business requires.
• You’ll demonstrate the leadership characteristics necessary to gain the trust of client stakeholders, internal stakeholders and the teams that you will lead, with the credibility and impact this requires.
• You’ll have a mix of delivery experience that covers one or more of Energy Retail, Energy Networks, Energy Markets, Nuclear, Water, and Oil & Gas, and may cover areas such as asset management, digital capital delivery, energy retail systems, control systems/control centres.
• You’ll have the behaviours, curiosity methods and techniques that drive great delivery and enable brilliant outcomes, based on a proven track record.
• You may currently be working in a major Consulting firm and/or in industry but will have client-facing Consulting experience.
• You’ll have the proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in delivering programmes and on-sell.
• You’ll have a track record of delivering projects/programmes, and in your consulting experience with a personal sales allocation KPI of £500K or £1m depending on your level.

What you'll love about working here:

We are a dynamic and high performing team, driven by our shared purpose to help our clients achieve their ambitions through transformational change. We get to work on some of the biggest, most complex, and most interesting challenges in the industry – whatever your area of interest and expertise, there’ll be a project to match, and at Capgemini you can get the future you want.

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 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 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 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.

When you join Capgemini, you don’t just start a new job. You become part of something bigger.