As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.
Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability.
An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success. When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.
An overview of the role:
We partner with some of the largest banks in the world on a variety of transformation engagements and work with the banking C-Suite in shaping and delivering their strategic priorities. Capgemini Invent is growing and is seeking to hire a Vice President for the Banking team, who will develop our FS relationships and be responsible for leading key transformation programmes for clients.
As a Vice President you will be responsible for building client relationships, helping Capgemini Invent become a trusted advisor, identifying and creating new opportunities to support our clients.
Why this role?
You will play a leadership role in our wider business, helping set the direction, driving forward the business, modelling our values and behaviours, and coaching junior members of the team. Key expectations from this role include:
1. Working as part of the Capgemini Invent leadership team within our business.
2. Capitalising on relationships already developed with large retail banks. Identifying and building a strong network of contacts at the Client responsible for consulting/advisory programmes, and extending our relationships with the Banks, ensuring they become key clients of Capgemini Invent.
3. Leading/coordinating Capgemini Invent offerings, tools and assets.
4. Taking the role of Programme Leader, overseeing the delivery of Capgemini Invent engagements with major client(s).
We’d love to meet someone with:
Experience with a recognised consultancy, leading relationships with a large banking client and managing significant programmes. In addition, you may also have been a senior member of an operational function within a Bank. Intellectually capable of developing and holding peer level relationships at all levels.
Ideally you’ll bring:
5. Good existing relationships with Senior Executives of major banks operating in the UK.
6. Experience of some of the following: Digital, Customer & Channel Innovation/Customer Proposition, Regulatory Risk & Compliance, Operational Excellence, Analytics and Business Change.
7. Experience of developing relationships with senior level client contacts.
8. Experience of programme/project management.
9. Ideally, experience in Agile design, as well as working in a DevOps environment.
10. A proven track record in new business development / account management in major banks across the full sales lifecycle.
You’ll also bring:
11. Strong management consulting experience with proven success in Retail and/or Commercial Banking.
12. Experience and evidence of thought leadership and a market recognised reputation in the market.
13. Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
14. Credibility and personal impact – being driven, dynamic, tenacious and possessing the will to win and deliver results.
15. Versatility and collaborative in style, empathetic in nature, confident in content and focussed on outcomes at all levels in the client organisation.
Why Capgemini is unique
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. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to 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.
Whilst you will have London 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.
In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.