Capgemini Invent: Why join us?

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Role Overview

The Director of Education will be a strategic leadership role within Capgemini Invent’s Public Sector practice in the UK. This individual will be responsible for establishing, growing, and managing the Education sector across Public Sector, both from a technical and sales perspective. The role will involve a mix of sales, programme management, and technical leadership, with a focus on driving delivery across clients, and ensuring the success of education initiatives within the business.

YOUR ROLE

In this role you will play a key role in:

• • Establish and scale Capgemini Invent’s Education practice in the UK, building the operational foundation required for success.
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive Education 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 education-related skills across the organisation.
  • Ensure the Education capability remains cutting-edge and competitive through ongoing research and by cultivating relationships with DfE, HE, Award Bodies, and their affiliated ecosystem of partners.
  • Lead and oversee the successful delivery of large, complex Education programmes from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with client objectives, on-time delivery, and within budget.
  • Identify market trends and client needs, aligning Capgemini Invent’s Education 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 Education practice or similar capabilities within a consulting or technology firm.
  • Significant experience in programme management, including overseeing large-scale implementations in Education.
  • Expertise in selling and delivering solutions across multiple Education 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 Education transformation programmes.
  • A deep understanding of DfE, HE, and Award Bodies required solutions, with the ability to lead and guide teams in their technical implementation.

• 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 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 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 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.