Director Public Sector Central Government Consulting

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.

Role Overview

The Director of Regional Growth will be a strategic leadership role within Capgemini Invent’s Public Sector practice in the UK. This individual will join an established team with responsibility for growing and managing the Public Sector presence across the North-West. The role will involve a mix of people, community, sales, programme management and technical leadership, with a focus on building client relationships, driving delivery across clients, and ensuring the success of regional initiatives within the business.

YOUR ROLE

In this role you will play a key role in:

· Maturing and scaling Capgemini Invent’s practice in the region, building the operational foundation required for success.

· Develop and implement a comprehensive regional strategy, including defining the portfolio of services, operationalising solutions, and building out the team.

· Mentor and lead cross-functional teams, ensuring technical excellence, alignment with client needs, and the continuous development of skills across the organisation.

· Ensure the practice remains cutting-edge and competitive through ongoing research and by cultivating relationships with regional clients and their affiliated ecosystem of partners.

· Lead and oversee the successful delivery of large, complex programmes from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with client objectives, on-time delivery, and within budget.

· Identify regional market trends and client needs, aligning Capgemini Invent’s offerings with those insights to drive sales growth.

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

Proven experience in leading the development of a regional practice or similar capabilities within a consulting or technology firm.

· Significant experience in programme management, including overseeing large-scale regional implementations, leading and guiding teams.

· Expertise in selling and delivering solutions across multiple programmes, with a strong track record of securing large and complex contracts.

· Experience in client-facing roles, ideally working with C-level executives to advise on and drive transformation programmes.

· A regional network combined with a deep understanding of the specific challenges and opportunities in the North West.

· Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a consulting background.

· 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.

· 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 (Director)

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

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 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.

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.

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.