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Manager/Senior Manager - Water

Capgemini

Capgemini

United Kingdom
Posted on Jan 27, 2026

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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:

As part of the huge growth in demand in our Water Sector Practice, we are seeking an experienced leader to join our highly talented team, working on the pursuit and delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services across the sector.
Our clients are some of the largest UK Water companies with whom we have longstanding relationships.

This role is designed to further expand and strengthen our position in this market. As a Senior Manager or Manager within Capgemini Invent’s Water Sector Team (Part of Energy Transition & Utilities) you will help drive our business, own client relationships, take a leading role in orchestration across our business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team. You will combine deep Water sector expertise with strong consulting skills, leading client engagements and supporting the expansion of our client base.

Specifically, you will be able to hit the ground running across the following areas:

  • Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
  • Project Delivery – Leading engagements with our clients and delivering them with quality, on time and on budget.
  • 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.
  • Thought Leadership – help grow our market thinking, positioning, including attending/presenting at Industry Events and supporting publications.

Your profile:

We’d love to meet someone with:

  • Significant experience gained within Consulting within the Water sector, including with one or more of the UK Water Companies, strong relationships with existing UK Water Companies
  • Exceptional consulting skills, meaning experience of working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but with a Consulting background
  • Experience of proposition building and delivery, with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams
  • Experience of digital programme delivery, design, across at least one of Capital Delivery, Waste and Water Operations and Back office.
  • Experience of managing senior client relationships within a UK Water company.
  • Deep understanding of sector trends, regulatory environment, and the challenges facing UK Water Companies.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive, and able to work independently as well as in teams.
  • Commitment to personal and team development, with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.
  • Flexibility to travel and work at client sites as required.

You will bring subject matter experience, expertise and intellectual capital across a broad range of advisory, consulting and transformation services, which may include some or all of:

  • Water and Waste Operations, Asset Management and/or Capital Delivery
  • Business Development Experience
  • Design and deployment of digital transformation and AI solutions and services
  • Emerging business and digital trends in Water sector, such as intelligent system operations, IoT, advanced analytics, mobile applications, automation, digital twin and BIM

What you'll love about working here:

At the forefront of our work to help solve some of the biggest challenges in the UK and beyond, you’ll be working with like-minded individuals as part of our leadership team.

We thrive on cooperation rather than competition. We’re not perfect, we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work together as an organisation, and the way we deliver for our clients.

Great team players thrive with Capgemini, and we really do live our values, including Teamwork, Honesty, Boldness, and Entrepreneurship. We can promise a collegiate working environment, challenge by supportive colleagues, and the space to get the future you want.

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 your 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.

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.

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.

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 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.