Supply Chain Logistics Consultant/Senior Consultant

Capgemini; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Logistics Consultant/Senior Consultant to join their team in Manchester. The role involves driving logistics solutions, enhancing warehouse and transport management capabilities, and developing junior team members. Ideal candidates will have prior experience in logistics operations and project governance, along with strong stakeholder management skills to deliver impactful solutions.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in warehouse logistics and multimodal transport.
• Competence in agile and waterfall project delivery.
• Experience in managing client relationships and project budgets.

Responsibilities

• Leading logistics team and enhancing warehouse and transport capabilities.
• Contributing to business development through proposals and client engagements.
• Coaching junior team members for professional growth.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Warehouse processes

Transport operations

Project Governance

Communication

Education

Degree in Logistics or related field

Certifications in Supply Chain Management

Tools

Manhattan Active

WMS Solutions

TMS Solutions

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

An exciting opportunity to be part of a team that will form an integral part of Capgemini's Logistics squad delivering a broad set of solutions to new and existing clients. This will be made up of core capabilities of Warehouse and Transport management and many new and exciting complimentary solutions including automation, robotics and many new digital and AI based technologies. The scope of our offering will also include WMS, TMS, OMS and instore technology forming part of the wider connected supply chain.

As a Logistics Consultant/Senior Consultant in the business, you'll help set the direction, driving forward the Logistics team, developing our Operational, Warehouse and Transport capabilities, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team.

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 pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• 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 Profile

We'd love to meet someone with:

• Previous experience of warehouse operations in a Logistics environment and be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of warehouse processes and optimisation of.
• Previous experience of multimodal transport operations in a Logistics environment and be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of transport processes and optimisation of.
• To have contributed to (Consultant) and led (Senior Consultant) project teams and to understand the wider approach to project delivery and governance with experience of both waterfall and agile methodologies
• Have worked as a management consultant or have been involved in business improvement programmes including diverse teams with global or regional impact
• Ideally have experience of implementing Manhattan Active platform or other industry leading WMS solutions
• Have a clear understanding of the integrated nature of Supply Chain solutions that integrate with the WMS and onward processes once stock leaves the warehouse e.g., Planning Solutions, OMS, TMS, In store
• Ideally to have experience of implementing TMS and/ or other Supply Chain solutions (see above) To have experience of managing and developing relationships with software vendors
• Have an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of strategic Logistics software solutions
• Have experience of testing process experience and to be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of testing methods, tools and strategies
• Strong Stakeholder management/ engagement and able to demonstrate management approach
• To be able to update on progress both verbally and in written reports/ updates at different levels of the project
• To have a customer first mentality
• To have had experience of producing and managing budgets in a sales and project delivery environments and be able to demonstrate process and approach
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.

What You'll Love about Working Here

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It's really rewarding. And it's also really varied. You'll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

We are delighted to have received the "Glassdoor Best Places to work UK' accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it's like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

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.

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.