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Your role:

Our clients in defence and aerospace are facing unprecedented change, facing into a world of uncertainty and increasing risk. Within Europe alone we are witnessing a significant rearmament phase, driven by geopolitical shifts and increasing investments across the defence landscape.

We are seeking talented consulting professionals to join our growing defence and aerospace team within Capgemini Invent. As a key member of our team you will work with colleagues and partners to build and deliver solutions for our clients that enable them to increase their defence outputs, drive efficiency and utilise the latest enabling digital technologies.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to both client and personal growth by engaging in activities including:

• Developing new client solutions by working across Capgemini to bring together a unique combination of tech enabled, people centred and output centric solutions.
• Shaping project outcomes that enables Capgemini to deliver major programmes linked to client challenges.
• Working with colleagues across Capgemini to deliver business than can including customer experience, digital and engineering offerings.
• Operating as a delivery owner on major defence programmes, including shaping proposals, designing parts of transformation programmes and rolling up your sleeves to see changes delivered through front-line, on-site implementation.
• Developing both yourself, your team and your clients to continually improve and push the boundaries of what is possible. Humility is a key value within Capgemini, we see this as a fantastic foundation for self-learning and development.

Your profile:

We are seeking consultants with the following experiences:

• Proven background in a consulting environment where you have delivered parts of transformation programmes, ideally for Aerospace and Defence major clients
• AI curiosity and ideally experience in creation of AI augmented propositions
• Experience being client facing and developing client relationships, fostering trust and building credibility across your domain of expertise.
• Curiosity and interest of defence programmes and experience solving problems in areas across the enterprise, which could cover either the public and/or private sector.
• Passion for solving your clients most pressing challenges, achieving tangible outcomes through a mix of technical expertise and strong people skills.
• Knowledge of tracking and delivering outcomes for clients and being able to deliver the change management capabilities needed to engage clients on delivering outcomes and sustaining results.
• Importantly an ability to work within teams and manage individuals, demonstrating both the integrity and humility needed to engage a diverse group of talent, bringing out the best performance for our clients.

What you'll love about working here?

Glassdoor Recognition
We are delighted to be in the top 10 for the ‘Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK 2025’. Having received this accolade for four consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page.

Flexibility to Work Your Way
You will have the freedom to structure your day in the way that works best for you. We prioritise our output more than the number of hours we work – which is why one of our key values is ‘Freedom’. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed flexible working in all that we do, and all UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Your Wellbeing
You’d be joining an organisation that puts your wellbeing at the top of its priorities, with a range of health & wellbeing communities and regular listening surveys. We have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. You will have the freedom to express your ideas to colleagues who are attentive to your viewpoints – which is what makes us an innovative workplace, and why another of our key values is ‘Boldness’.

Regular Promotion Cycles
We truly believe in the importance of recognising people for their great work, which is why we have regular promotion cycles to reward and compensate our people.

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, 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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