About the Role

We work closely with clients and partners to take full advantage of the opportunities of technology. We mobilize expert teams that create custom solutions from existing and emerging technology to deliver viable outcomes at speed. We call this 'Value in the making.'

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti are currently looking for a Business Development Manager to join our expanding sales function to focus on growing our new business revenue where you will be responsible for B2B sales, driving customer acquisition, and converting leads into sales. You'll play a critical role in helping businesses save time and money and delivering overall business growth for Sogeti.

You will be responsible for various new business building activities, typically:

• Driving new business within existing named accounts and new logos acquisition from your professional network and in conjunction with our Lead Generation and Pre-Sales Team.
• Development of winning propositions and solutions to meet client needs, across all of Sogeti’s delivery capabilities and ultimately bringing new customers to Sogeti UK.
• Driving our Microsoft services portfolio across Application and Cloud Technologies

As you develop, you will build up a broad base of knowledge for your future with us. Across all of these areas you will be expected to use your initiative and drive to produce successful results and it goes without saying that team-working will be crucial to your success.

Essential for the Business Development Manager to have:-

• Experience of successfully hitting new business targets over a considerable period of time adopting levels of resilience and tenacity that go with a hunter mentality/existence.
• Good commercial knowledge for making T&M (Time & Material) / fixed Price / managed services deals.
• Experience driving Microsoft transformational deals in collaboration with Microsoft
• Experience of working with a global delivery model – offshore is a big positive.
• The ability to work own proposals, presentations, articulation of value to prospects.

The successful candidate will be:

• Passionate for knowledge, as this is a fast paced, constantly evolving technology market.
• A strong, honest communicator who possesses excellent oral, listening and written skills.
• Able to demonstrate consultative behaviour.
• Tenacious, determined and resilient.

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 Management or, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Flexibility to work your way

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means 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.

Security Clearance requirement

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means 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.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what is possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

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 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.