Capgemini Invent
Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner - Director Hiring
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About Capgemini Invent
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:
You will lead complex, niche and leadership hiring across assigned areas of Capgemini Invent UK. You will act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, combining hands-on end-to-end recruitment with strategic sourcing, market intelligence and strong recruitment governance. The role is focused on delivering high-quality senior appointments in a fast-paced, high-demand environment, while building sustainable talent pipelines and reducing avoidable agency reliance.
Recruitment delivery
- Own the full recruitment lifecycle for senior, niche and leadership roles, from requisition and briefing through to offer.
- Manage multiple complex requisitions and hiring campaigns simultaneously, maintaining pace, quality and transparency.
- Define recruitment strategies with hiring leaders, including sourcing, attraction, assessment and candidate engagement approaches.
- Match experienced candidates to critical business roles and maintain clear momentum throughout the selection process.
Stakeholder management
- Act as the primary TA partner to Invent leadership and hiring managers across assigned areas.
- Challenge hiring requirements, assumptions and role design where appropriate, bringing an external talent market perspective.
- Influence hiring decisions through credible advice, market insight, recruitment data and evidence-based recommendations.
- Build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders, HR colleagues and relevant internal partners.
Strategic talent acquisition
- Lead and support strategic hiring initiatives aligned with business priorities.
- Provide recruitment insight on active and upcoming senior hiring priorities.
- Use recruitment analytics, market intelligence and talent mapping to shape hiring strategies.
- Identify delivery risks early and propose practical sourcing or assessment solutions.
Candidate attraction and sourcing
- Directly source experienced consulting, transformation and technology talent.
- Develop creative and targeted sourcing approaches for scarce or senior talent.
- Build and maintain engaged pipelines for recurring and business-critical capabilities.
- Represent the Capgemini Invent employer brand professionally in the UK market.
Process and governance
- Ensure recruitment processes, approvals, compliance requirements and policies are followed.
- Maintain accurate ATS and CRM activity to support governance and reporting.
- Provide clear recruitment updates, market feedback and hiring insights to stakeholders.
- Work closely with HR, onboarding and business leadership to support a consistent candidate journey.
- Mentor TA colleagues and coach hiring managers on effective recruitment and selection practices where required.
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Your Profile:
Essential skills and experience:
- Significant experience recruiting senior talent in the UK IT consulting sector. This is an essential requirement; applicants without this specific market experience will not be considered.
- Proven delivery of senior, niche or leadership recruitment.
- Fluency in direct sourcing, talent mapping and proactive candidate engagement.
- Experience partnering with and influencing senior business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated use of recruitment analytics and market insight to inform decisions.
- Expertise using ATS and CRM systems and maintaining high-quality recruitment data.
- Excellent organisational, communication, influencing and prioritisation skills.
- Demonstrated resilience, pace and adaptability while managing competing senior hiring priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Desirable Experience
- Broader recruitment exposure across management consulting, professional services or technology transformation.
- Employer branding, EVP or senior talent-pipelining experience.
- Experience coaching recruiters or hiring managers.
- Advanced familiarity with Power BI, generative AI, Boolean search, SuccessFactors/GetTalent and Phenom.
Core competencies
- Strategic partnering: influences senior leaders, challenges assumptions and aligns recruitment activity with agreed business priorities.
- Senior recruitment expertise: applies deep sourcing, attraction, assessment and offer-management capability to complex appointments.
- Market and data insight: translates external intelligence and recruitment analytics into clear recommendations.
- Stakeholder leadership: manages competing demands with credibility, judgement and transparency.
- Candidate experience: creates a responsive, inclusive and professional journey for senior candidates.
- Governance and delivery: balances strategic advice with disciplined operational execution and accurate systems.
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.
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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 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.
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 on the 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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