Manager/Senior Manager - Transport

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

Capgemini Invent is hiring an experienced Senior Manager for our Transport sector.

We advise Travel and Transport Infrastructure clients and national infrastructure operators on the design, sourcing, transformation and operational improvement of transport infrastructure and services.

The role of Senior Manager is a key role encompassing both entrepreneurial business development/personal sales, with hands-on project delivery/management. This role would suit a technically savvy and commercially minded transport specialist who enjoys developing great client relationships and understands how to meet clients’ needs with great consulting solutions.  You will deliver what you sell helping clients transform their travel and transport infrastructure services, technology and by delivering business-critical change.

To do this, we would expect you to have strong contacts in the transport and travel infrastructure sector and be passionate about leveraging your network and your technical knowledge to meet client’s needs.  We are especially keen to have colleagues join our team with a solid track record for driving transformation in UK Rail, Road and Aviation Transport. This is an exciting chance to drive technology change across industry sectors through helping client organisations navigate this ever-changing space.

Your Profile

• Knowledge and keen interest in one, or more, front-of-mind transport and travel sector topical areas of challenge for our times (examples include, but are not limited to, public transport policy and implementation, transport economics, digital transformation of public transport services, decarbonisation, etc.)
• Strong commercial acumen and management experience. You should be able to manage P&L’s and costs for programmes and projects
• Prior experience in a management consultancy environment
• Excellent business development, self-starter skills, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills in multi-cultural environments
• A deep understanding of current affairs, public sector challenges and technological trends within this context
• An interest in developing new business (this activity can take a number of different forms depending on relative experience and rank)
• A drive for personal and professional progression

Some Key Duties:

• Develop strategic client relationships, working at the senior levels to sell value adding consulting assignment
• Lead and deliver large scale and complex projects – managing project teams (2-10 people) being actively involved and taking ownership of delivery
• Develop commercially viable consulting market offerings
• Driving Go-To-Market and other specialist teams to develop propositions, develop existing client accounts and build new accounts
• Work within mixed consulting and client teams, planning, managing and delivering work

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

The Transport sector within Capgemini Invent is at a stage of rapid growth and opportunity, so we are looking for individuals with the passion and ambition to join this wave and make the most of it, as part of a very enthusiastic and energetic team who like to have some fun whilst doing what we like the most.

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

Your wellbeing 
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 

Shape your path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
 

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 Invent

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 fuelled 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.