Workforce Transformation Specialist- Senior Consultant

Capgemini; Glasgow, London, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic transformation consultant to drive workforce initiatives. In this role, you will analyze skills gaps, design career pathways, and partner with HR to align workforce strategies with business goals. You will engage with clients across various sectors, leveraging your expertise to deliver innovative solutions that enhance employee experience and promote internal mobility. Join a forward-thinking team that values creativity and collaboration, and contribute to shaping the future of work in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Mental Health Champions

Training and development opportunities

CSR initiatives

Accolades for best workplace

Qualifications

• Experience in designing skills-focused initiatives for workforce development.
• Ability to conduct skills gap analyses and develop learning pathways.

Responsibilities

• Conduct skills gap analyses to identify capability needs.
• Design and implement career pathways and learning journeys.

Skills

Skills Gap Analysis

Career Pathway Development

Learning Pathways

Change Management

Agile Methodology

Design Thinking

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Talent Management Platforms

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

In this role you will help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team. We’re looking for someone with experience in the design and implementation of skills-focused initiatives that enable organisations to build a future-ready workforce. This role will be responsible for conducting skills gap analyses, mapping current and future capabilities, and developing career and/or learning pathways that align with business needs and employee aspirations:

1. Conduct skills gap analyses across functions to identify priority capability needs.
2. Design and deliver skills mapping exercises to visualise current talent, future skill needs, and reskilling opportunities.
3. Co-create and implement career pathways and learning journeys that support internal mobility and talent development.
4. Partner with HR, L&D, and business leaders to align workforce initiatives with strategic goals.
5. Support the integration of skills frameworks into existing HR systems (e.g., LMS, talent management platforms).
6. Monitor industry trends and workforce transformation practices to ensure a forward-looking approach.
7. Provide actionable insights and recommendations based on workforce data and analytics.
8. Support change management and communication plans to embed new frameworks and tools effectively.

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:

1. Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
2. Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
3. Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

You will work and communicate with all levels of our organisation, be knowledgeable on market trends and challenges across HR and bring your own point of view to share with colleagues and clients. A growth mindset and a desire to work in a client facing role, solving complex challenges are most important. Skilled at establishing brilliant working relationships with client and teams – helping us achieve the highest standards of quality and widening our reach. Currently holds or is eligible for security clearance.

Optional:

1. Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background.
2. Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
3. Experience in Agile Methodology, Design Thinking and Change Management is desirable.
4. Experience of proposition building and delivery.

Applicants must comply with UK security clearance requirements, including no trips longer than 28 consecutive days outside the UK in the last 5 years, in order to be eligible for security clearance, in accordance with UK law.

What you'll love about working here:

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 5 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page.

In a world of digital transformation, the future of work, and the new normal post the pandemic, organisations are facing major disruptions that require People and HR teams to help transform the way they think and act. Our Workforce Transformation team’s purpose is to help our clients rethink the end-to-end people experience and support clients with embedding learning in the DNA of their organisation through deep and focused transformation frameworks, leveraging emerging technologies to deliver our client’s shared vision.

In your role you will engage with a range of clients to shape and deliver sustainable business outcomes through a variety of programmes which are designed to help clients rapidly adapt to, and navigate through, complex transformations. Partnering with our clients across all industries, you will leverage your expertise to capture, analyse, and document business processes and requirements, and participate in designing solutions to address business requirements and improve people experience. You will be generating innovative ideas and frameworks to help solve problems, provide hands on delivery, and create insightful fact-based findings and recommendations, identifying and delivering on-sell or new sales opportunities. Through enabling clients to succeed, you will help Capgemini Invent to maintain its position as the market leader in Digital Transformation consulting.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to build our Workforce Transformation team. You will take an active role within our practice, through co-creating a culture in which every team-member feels comfortable bringing their whole self to work and is empowered to deliver great work, grow and be free to innovate and have fun along the way.

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.

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