Management Consultant - Water & Biodiversity Specialist

As a Water and Biodiversity lead, you will play a key part in scaling our impact and building our wider growth story. Your work will be client-focused, building through leadership, identifying challenges and opportunities for driving systemic change and supporting teams in building and implementing viable business driven solutions.

In joining the Sustainable Futures team, you will be contributing to publications and events, and lead / be part of collaborative business plans, engagements and proposals to help our clients act on climate issues.

Your work will be underpinned by innovation, across a wide spectrum from analysis to solution design, post-project monitoring and evaluation.

Typically, you will lead or be part of an integrated multidisciplinary environmental, strategy and team. In your targeted accounts, you will build strong relationships and an understanding of the sustainability strategy and client business, becoming a trusted advisory partner.

The work :

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It's really rewarding.

And it's also really varied. You'll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Why this role?

As a Water and Biodiversity Lead, Senior Consultant in Sustainable Futures you will be expected to :

• Help set the direction to be driving forward our business and scale our impact together with our clients.


• Model our values and behaviours, coach and develop members of the team.


• Become a strong industry voice, creating thought leadership content (white papers, articles, reports) and participate in industry facing events.


• Utilise your expertise in water and biodiversity to solve complex and ambiguous client challenges, bringing structure, rigour and creative thinking to deliver high quality, effective work with little management oversight.


• Lead / contribute to business development activities for the Water and Biodiversity practice, including opportunity identification and proposal development and presentation.


• Balance between the high level and technical aspects of water and biodiversity, with the skill to cover strategy, reporting, and implementation of change programmes.


• Run all aspects related to our business on your subject area (costing, contracting, invoicing etc.)


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.
  
  University degree preferably at Masters level in a technical, analytical or business discipline


• Practical experience of working on sustainability engagements, with proven business development and consulting experience in a top-tier strategy or boutique sustainability consulting firm


• Strong technical expertise in biodiversity and water, with proven ability to translate highly technical insights into innovative solutions to drive change


• Experience working with international stakeholders with excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills


• A highly entrepreneurial individual, that is collaborative and innovative while technically grounded


• Confidence in articulating innovative solutions and a proven ability to enlist support and commitment from peers, ideally in a matrixed organisation
  
  At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.


By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

About Capgemini Invent :

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 2022 global revenues of €22 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.

Get The Future You Want

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An overview of the role :

Water and biodiversity are vital for all life. This role provides the opportunity to make a difference through a rewarding career dedicated to managing our precious resources in the environment while balancing the increasing pressures from climate change for people, businesses, industry and agriculture.

Join the Capgemini Invent Sustainable Futures team to work at the forefront of technology and innovation to create businees driven solutions that will help adapt and accelerate the resilience of water and biodiversity for planetary and human systems., 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.

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.

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.

Collaboration and Innovation :

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you'll get to know the customer's needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems.

It'll help you discover unexpected answers together.

Learning and development :

There's an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you'll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of.

Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all our teams.