Consulting Manager – Front-End Advisory, Birmingham

About the job you're considering

Organisations across all industries are navigating increasingly complex technology and transformation agendas, often needing clear, pragmatic advice to help them make confident decisions and turn ambition into action. Senior leaders are looking for advisors who can frame problems effectively, bring clarity through insight, and shape realistic pathways to change. Within Capgemini's Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) Projects & Consulting, we work with clients across the financial services, public and private sectors to support front‑end advisory, transformation design and programme mobilisation. Our work spans early‑stage assessments and business cases through to the set‑up and assurance of larger change initiatives.

Hybrid working

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of company offices, client sites, and your home, noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

As a Manager or Senior Manager in the CIS Projects & Consulting Advisory team, you will:

• Lead and deliver front‑end advisory engagements, helping clients understand challenges, options and next steps
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, combining consulting judgement with technology awareness
• Shape engagement scope, approach and outputs, ensuring work is commercially sound and outcome‑focused
• Support the transition from advisory into larger transformation, delivery and managed services programmes
• Contribute to practice growth, including go‑to‑market activity, proposition development and mentoring
• Continuously develop skills of the future, staying current across technology, ways of working and consulting approaches

Your skills and experience

You will bring a strong foundation in consulting, alongside the ability to engage with technology and develop future‑focused skills, including:

• Experience in a consulting or advisory role, operating at Manager or Senior Manager level
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous, front‑end consulting work, from problem definition through to recommendations
• A good grasp of technology and digital concepts, with experience across some of the following domains: Enterprise Service Management (ESM) and Employee Experience, Cloud and infrastructure services, Engagement management and service operations, Data centre transformation and networks, Cybersecurity and resilience, Data, analytics and AI‑enabled decision making
• Strong storytelling and communication skills, translating complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives
• Experience contributing to business development activity, including client conversations, proposals and credentials
• A learning mindset, with the ability to pick up new topics quickly and stay relevant as client needs and technologies evolve

We are a Disability Confident Employer

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.

Your security clearance and pre‑employment checks

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process. If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre‑employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and an unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

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