Transport Director

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.

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.  When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

An overview of the role:

The successful candidate will be excited about the possibilities that technology brings to transform the railway. Our Invent Rail Consulting Director will be sought after as a leading advisor in the industry.  They will be a proven thought leader, who can work with clients and colleagues to bring about this transformation.  In this role you will focus on our established client accounts, helping to increase the value we deliver to our clients. 

You will achieve this by:

• Having a strong trusted network within the industry, built on delivering technology enabled change.
• Working collaboratively with our wider firm, we have an amazing global rail footprint.  You will understand what we do in rail internationally and how this is relevant to our clients in the UK.  We also have amazing technology and transformation capability within the UK and across the group.  You will work with one of the world’s most collaborative teams, to build and share in, our mutual success, taking joy from the real world changes we help our clients to realise.

Why this role?

Our Sector unit is a fast-growing team of industry specialists and we are looking for a Director with rail expertise to join the team.  The Director should be able to help colleagues across Capgemini understand how they can add value to the railway industry transformation, and to help clients understand where we can help them.

We’d love to meet someone with:

• Established Consulting track record delivering successful projects for UK rail clients.
• Experience in technology enabled transformation, strategy, and implementation projects. 
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating c.£2m of consulting revenues.

Why Capgemini is unique:

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 you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to 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.

Whilst you will have London or Manchester 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.