Senior Manager (Learning Specialist) - Workforce Transformation

Capgemini Invent; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking a Senior Manager to lead workforce transformation programmes across varied sectors in the UK, shaping strategy through execution. You will drive enterprise-wide change, influence senior stakeholders and oversee multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-impact solutions with credibility and impact.

You will also contribute to evolving service offerings, build long-term client relationships, and mentor rising leaders while advancing business development and market

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale workforce transformation programmes and selling on to further work.
• Experience and best practice using AI in learning ecosystems.
• Experience and best practice implementing learning technology.
• Experience managing teams and multiple workstreams in complex delivery environments.
• Building productive client relationships with senior leadership to identify opportunities.
• Business development experience driving new business and go-to-market initiatives.
• Brand and market eminence; being a visible business leader in the consulting community.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale workforce transformation programmes and sell on to further work.
• Apply AI in learning ecosystems and leverage learning technology.
• Manage teams across multiple workstreams in complex delivery environments.
• Develop client relationships with senior leadership to identify opportunities.
• Drive business development and contribute to go-to-market initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

People analytics

AI in learning

Business development

Job description

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 a Senior Manager in the Workforce & Organisation practice, with a focus on Workforce Transformation, you’ll work with clients across a wide range of industries, from Government and Financial Services to Retail, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, and Energy & Utilities. You’ll help them address critical challenges around future skills, talent strategies, organisational culture, and the impact of technology and automation on the workforce. Drawing on your consulting expertise, you’ll lead teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions that drive meaningful, lasting change.

You’ll take a hands‑on role in shaping and delivering complex transformation programmes, guiding clients from strategy through to execution. As a trusted advisor, you’ll influence senior stakeholders, manage cross‑functional teams, and ensure solutions are both innovative and practical. Your leadership will be key in helping organisations navigate disruption and build resilient, future‑ready workforces.

It’s an exciting time to join our rapidly growing Workforce Transformation team. You’ll contribute to our ambition to become the UK’s leading Transformation advisory practice helping to build a culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole self to work, deliver exceptional outcomes, and grow professionally while having fun and driving innovation along the way.

This Position Will Offer You The Opportunity To

• Shape the strategic direction of workforce transformation programmes, influencing C-suite stakeholders and driving enterprise-wide change.
• Take ownership of complex client engagements, leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative, high‑impact solutions that redefine the future of work.
• Play a pivotal role in developing and evolving our service offerings, bringing market insights and thought leadership to strengthen our position in the industry.
• Build and nurture long‑term client relationships, identifying opportunities for growth and guiding clients through transformation journeys with confidence and credibility.
• Contribute to the growth of a high‑performing, inclusive team, mentoring future leaders, fostering collaboration, and helping build a culture of excellence and innovation.

Role

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

• Business Development – Lead proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitches and hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Lead campaign development, internal think‑tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Access training and certifications to support your career growth and align with evolving business needs.

YOUR PROFILE

As a Senior Manager in Workforce Transformation, you’ll bring a minimum of 10 years of consulting or relevant industry experience, including at least 2 years in a management consulting role. You’ll be ready to lead the delivery of complex transformation programmes for large organisations, while actively contributing to business development and the growth of our practice. Working alongside a team of agile problem solvers with deep consulting and industry expertise, you’ll help clients tackle their most pressing workforce challenges, from strategy through to execution.

Specific Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Experience leading large scale, complex workforce learning transformation programmes and initiatives with demonstrable ability to sell on to further work.
• Experience and best practice using AI in learning ecosystems.
• Experience and best practice implementing learning technology.
• Experience managing teams and multiple workstreams in complex delivery environments, fostering practice development, team building, and mentoring junior colleagues.
• Building productive and lasting client relationships senior leadership levels by identifying and discussing key issues with our clients, to identify potential opportunities.
• Business development experience driving the development of new business in the market, and providing advisory services across disciplines including business strategy, market growth strategy, lead go‑to‑market initiatives and operational improvement.
• Brand and market eminence; being a visible business leader in the Consulting and Industry community, speaking at conferences, authoring thought leadership, participating in multi‑client industry round tables.
• Utilising a combination of our organisation’s broader pre‑existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating c.£1m of consulting revenues.

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

• Delivered a range of technology driven Workforce Transformation projects and solutions 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 generative 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.
• Experience delivering end‑to‑end organisational culture transformation projects and/or culture projects as part of implementing a new technology, an operating model or ways of working (i.e., agile, hybrid).

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 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.

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.

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.