Manager/Senior Manager - Digital Engineering Consulting - PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

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 part of Capgemini Invent's Intelligent Industry practice, our Digital Engineering team is seeking an experienced PLM Managing Consultant to support clients on complex transformation programmes.

Intelligent Industry focuses on creating powerful synergies between the digital and engineering worlds, helping organisations design, build, and operate intelligent products, services, and operations at scale. We work with clients to drive innovation, accelerate transformation, and unlock new value through technology, engineering, and data-driven solutions.

Summary introduction of the role 

• You will work on high profile, impactful programmes, helping clients define, design and deliver Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities that improve speed to market, product quality, regulatory compliance and cost performance.
• Our consultants bring strong PLM business consulting skills (process, data, governance, operating model and change) alongside a clear perspective on how digital continuity across engineering, manufacturing and service unlocks measurable value.
• We work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels to shape the PLM vision, target operating model and roadmap, and to translate business outcomes into requirements for people, process and technology.
• You will help clients improve core lifecycle processes such as requirements and configuration management, product data management, BOM and variant management, change control (ECR/ECO), product costing and product compliance.
• You will support selection, implementation and adoption of leading PLM and adjacent platforms, working with solution architects and delivery teams to ensure designs meet business needs and are fit for scale.
• You  will be familiar with the use of Agentic AI for digital continuity. 
• We move from ‘idea to action’ quickly, building stakeholder alignment and confidence through pragmatic delivery, value tracking and strong change management to sustain outcomes.

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’re growing our team and looking for a range of skills and experiences. We’d like to hear from you if you have held prominent roles within Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), configuration management or digital engineering domain, or have applied these in a consultancy role.
 
We are looking for entrepreneurial individuals with the knowledge and creativity to deliver truly inventive solutions to our clients.
  
Depending on the stage you are at in your career, we’re looking for appropriate levels of knowledge and/or experience in PLM and digital continuity, including one or more of the following areas:

• Experience of working in a consultancy environment and/or delivering internal business improvement initiatives, with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end product lifecycle processes and how PLM enables digital continuity across engineering, manufacturing, quality and service.
• Experience defining target operating models, governance, roles and responsibilities for PLM (e.g., data ownership, design authority, change control and configuration governance)
• Practical experience improving core PLM business capabilities such as requirements and configuration management, EBOM/MBOM alignment, variant management, ECR/ECO, and product compliance.
• Strong data and information management skills (product structures, classification, metadata, master data, data quality) and familiarity with integration patterns (PLM–ERP–MES–ALM).
• Experience supporting PLM selection, implementation and adoption, including requirements definition, fit-gap, vendor evaluation, UAT support and benefits/value tracking.
• Working knowledge of one or more PLM platforms such as Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE/ENOVIA, SAP PLM, Aras Innovator, or Autodesk Fusion Manage.
• Understanding of adjacent domains and methods such as MBSE, ALM, digital thread/digital twin, systems engineering, and model-based product definition.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organization, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience contributing to propositions, thought leadership and business development activities (e.g., proposals, RFPs, client pitches, and asset development).

What You'll Love About Working Here

As part of the Digital Engineering team in Invent you will work on high profile, impactful projects with industry leading organisations, helping them transform how they conceive, develop, industrialise and support products across the end-to-end lifecycle.

You will use your knowledge and experience to help our clients exploit digital technologies to transform the way they operate and to integrate their manufacturing operations within their organisation’s value chain. 
The work is varied and you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of client facing projects across multiple industry sectors. Projects may touch on various aspects of managing products throughout their lifecycle including product design and development, product manufacture and through life support and maintenance. 

You will use your business and technical knowledge, together with your strong understanding of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 concepts, to help clients develop the justifications for change, identify the opportunities for value realisation as well as defining the elements that need to put in place to realise their ambitions. This would typically include transformation roadmaps, business cases, operating model design and solution architectures.

Need to Know

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. 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, Newcastle 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 350,000 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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.