Capgemini Invent
Senior Manager - Public Sector - Water, Environment, Food and Biosecurity
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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:
We are seeking a Senior Manager to help public sector clients tackle complex challenges spanning water, the natural environment, climate resilience, food systems and biosecurity. You will combine consulting rigour with an understanding of science, engineering and policy, bringing curiosity and systems thinking to shape practical transformation. Working with senior clients and multidisciplinary teams, you will turn evidence into strategy, connect policy intent to delivery, and lead programmes that deliver resilient services, healthier ecosystems and better outcomes for people and places.
In this role you will play a key role in:
- Helping clients address interconnected challenges across water, the environment, climate, food and biosecurity, translating scientific evidence and policy objectives into clear strategies and deliverable transformation plans.
- Leading complex consulting engagements from problem definition through to implementation, integrating policy, operating model, data, digital, engineering and organisational perspectives.
- Using systems thinking to understand dependencies, trade-offs, risks and unintended consequences across organisations, sectors, places and supply chains.
- Building trusted relationships with senior clients and working effectively with scientists, engineers, policy professionals, operational leaders and digital specialists.
- Growing our environment-focused consulting business through insight-led propositions, high-quality bids and thought leadership, while coaching multidisciplinary teams and contributing to an inclusive, curious culture.
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.
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Your profile:
A strong consulting background, with experience shaping and delivering complex strategy, transformation or operating model work in the public sector or another highly regulated environment:
- Relevant experience across one or more of water, the natural environment, climate adaptation or mitigation, food and farming, or biosecurity, supported by a grounding in digital transformation, environmental science, engineering, economics, regulation or public policy.
- A curious systems thinker who can connect evidence, policy, technology, organisations and delivery, make sense of ambiguity, test assumptions and communicate complex issues clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Collaborative leadership skills, with the ability to bring together multidisciplinary teams, build trusted client relationships, develop others and maintain momentum from insight through to measurable outcomes.
A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in environmental science, engineering, economics, public policy or a related discipline is desirable.
What you'll love about working here:
At Capgemini Invent, you’ll join a team that sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, data, and transformation, helping some of the world’s leading organisations solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful change.
We offer the opportunity to work on high-impact projects across industries, collaborate with talented and diverse colleagues, and leverage the global scale and capabilities of the wider Capgemini Group.
Our culture encourages innovation, continuous learning, and entrepreneurial thinking, empowering individuals to develop their careers while making a tangible difference for clients and society. Whether you are shaping business strategy, driving digital transformation, or designing future-ready solutions, Capgemini Invent provides an environment where curiosity, creativity, and ambition can thrive.
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.
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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 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.
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