Director - Energy Transition & Utilities - Energy Networks

.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 Energy Transition & Utilities practice, we are seeking an experienced senior leader to join our highly talented team, working on the pursuit and delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services across our sector.Our clients within Energy Transition & Utilities include those within the sub-sectors of Energy Networks, Energy Retail, Energy Central Markets, Water and Nuclear.Driven by major investment in the sector and the unique position of our Capgemini Invent business, we are seeing a significant increase in demand for our services and teams. Our vast utilities experience, strong strategic and business transformation skillset, a deep understanding of digital, data and a highly collaborative approach has allowed us to build a successful track record of delivering leading edge consulting services and solutions for our clients.This role is designed to further expand and strengthen our position in this market. As a Director within Capgemini Invent’s Energy Networks team, you’ll help set the direction, drive forward the business, own senior 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 energy networks sector expertise with strong consulting skills, leading client engagements and supporting the expansion of our client base across electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks. Specifically, you will deliver activities that form part of the following categories:Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, proposition development, opportunity pursuits, account plans, client presentations, client hosting at events, expert panels.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.Your profile:We’d love to meet someone with:Significant experience gained within Consulting within the Energy & Utilities sector, including with one or many of electricity and gas transmission and distribution network businesses.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.Deep understanding of sector trends, regulatory environment, and the challenges facing UK energy networks.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 in the energy networks sector, which may include all or some of:Corporate strategy, business planning and regulatory advisory services.Business and IT operating model, restructuring and performance improvement.Large scale business transformation and programme delivery, across areas including system operation, asset management, capital infrastructure, operations, customer, cyber and workforce.Design and deployment of digital transformation and AI solutions and services.Emerging business and digital trends in energy networks, such as intelligent system operations, IoT, advanced analytics, mobile applications, automation, energy management, digital twin and BIM.What you'll love about working here:The energy transition is a generation-defining challenge. But we believe it’s not just what it averts, but what it enables in our economy and society, that matters. We envision a world in which energy is clean, affordable and abundant, powering a new wave of industrial growth and social opportunity.The energy industry’s transition to clean energy is a fundamental enabler for every other industry’s ability to reach net-zero. The transition also provides a huge opportunity to positively impact the human side of business: deeper customer relationships, consumer perception and talent attraction.Helping energy and utilities organisations to harness the vast economic and societal potential of the energy transition and build a better future is our passion and purpose.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, andMeet 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 an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.Make it real. |