Product Transformation - Consultant/Senior Consultant - Digital Excellence

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 are looking for a management consultant who specialises in product-centric transformation and product coaching. This dynamic role requires product management expertise and a consultancy mindset. You will be required to balance business knowledge and stakeholder management with an understanding of product transformation.

As part of the role, you will:

• Engage with clients to define and shape their transformation strategies
• Design and implement product operating models
• Design and manage change management activities to support implementation
• Mentor and coach other product managers

We are in the Digital Excellence tribe, part of Capgemini Invent's Business Technology unit. Our team is a growing and dynamic community of digital professionals. We're passionate about user-centred design, critical thinking, and innovative digital services and products.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Product-centric transformation

• Partner with senior client stakeholders to define and shape product transformation strategies.
• Support the end-to-end transformation.
• Assess current-state capabilities and design future-state product operating models.
• Lead discovery and framing sessions to align transformation goals with business outcomes.
• Champion the adoption of Agile and product-centric delivery models and standards of re-use.
• Align with business goals to improve processes, user experience, and scale efficiencies.

Product Operating Model Design

• Define and implement product-centric structures, roles, and governance models.
• Introduce and embed agile, lean, and DevOps practices tailored to client contexts.
• Support the shift from project to product funding and delivery models.

Change Leadership

• Act as a change agent to influence mindset shifts across business and technology teams.
• Design and deliver enablement programs to upskill client teams in product management and agile delivery.
• Coach product managers, product owners, and cross-functional teams.

Delivery Oversight

• Oversee the delivery of transformation roadmaps, ensuring measurable progress and value realisation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to pilot and scale new ways of working.
• Track KPIs and OKRs to monitor transformation success.
• Community and practice development.
• Actively contribute to Capgemini Invent's product community of practice.
• Share knowledge and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Engage in business development activities.
• Help shape the future of our practice and contribute to the wider growth of Capgemini Invent.

Future trends and innovation

• Support design and delivery approaches to the transformation and optimization of product management
• Guide clients in leveraging AI and automation to enhance product functionality, streamline development processes, and drive data-driven decision-making.
• Embrace emerging technologies such as machine learning, blockchain, and IoT to further innovate product solutions.
• Support delivery of user experiences that reflect Capgemini Invent's commitment to user-centric design.

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'd love to meet someone with:

• Proven experience leading product-centric transformations across public and private sector organisations.
• Deep understanding of agile, lean, and product management principles.
• Strong consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience designing and implementing product operating models.
• Ability to influence and coach at all levels.
• Hands-on experience in implementing Agile and DevOps methodologies in legacy environments.
• Familiarity with addressing complex challenges and business needs through tailored approaches.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and a track record of building lasting relationships.
• Experience coaching and mentoring product owners, implementing product ways of working and operating models.
• Leadership experience and practical knowledge of project management and financial forecasting.
• Familiarity with collaboration tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Miro and Confluence.

Ideally you will also have:

• Knowledge of industry trends and their impact on business strategies
• Relevant Agile (e.g. Scrum Alliance), IT service management and/or project management certifications.
• Experience in a people or line management role.

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. Capgemini Invent offers Consultants a culture of learning, ownership, and focus on value.

• You'll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies.
• Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array for different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client's outcomes.
• Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed.
• We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients.
• There are monthly team drinks, and it's a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

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 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.