Director - Industry 4.0 & Asset Management

Capgemini Invent: Why Join us?

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

We lead the digitisation of global manufacturing and asset intensive companies across a broad range of industries including Consumer Goods, Aerospace & Defence, Life Sciences and Energy Transition & Utilities.  Our blend of strategy, transformation, engineering and cloud skills makes us unique in our field.  We work with many multi-national clients, using our scale and breadth of skills to grow Smart Asset projects from Proof of Concept through to adoption at-scale.

As a Director in our Intelligent Industry practice you will lead the sales and delivery of projects to create autonomous operations for our clients through the adoption of digital technologies and AI.  You will work with leaders in Operations and Engineering functions to define the digitisation strategy, calculate the business case, design the transformation roadmap to achieve the strategy and lead client teams in adopting new ways of working.  You will lead teams of consultants working closely with operators and technicians to make changes sustainable thus assuring long-term benefits.

Our consultants typically work directly alongside our clients at their sites, keeping the focus of digitisation on the user experience and the business outcomes.  As a Director, you will build teams to deliver such projects and take responsibility for the personal and professional development of the practitioners.  You will typically work with colleagues from Capgemini’s Engineering, Data and Cloud Services businesses and frog, our Digital Agency.  You will lead teams collaborating to design, build and implement digital solutions that enable our clients to improve service levels, reduce costs and improve sustainability outcomes.  As part of the Intelligent Industry extended leadership team you will share responsibility for the growth of our practice and practitioners.

As an Industry 4.0 & Connected Assets leader you will play a key role in:

• Growing Capgemini Invent’s business through building our Industrial Asset Management capabilities;
• Developing our people through training the next generation of consulting leaders;
• Building the competitiveness and resilience of our clients in their marketplaces; and
• Leading the adoption of AI and associated transformation of business models in key sectors of the UK economy.

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 are looking for a candidate at Director level, or ready to make that step, who can demonstrate:

• A background in transforming manufacturing and/or utilities operations to deliver a step-change in performance in asset intensive industries through the implementation of digital technologies and AI;
• The business acumen and skills to create compelling business cases for investment and change;
• A passion for leading operational improvements with a focus on employee engagement and empowerment; and
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organization through enlisting support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions;
• 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 annual consulting revenues.

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.

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 an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.