Corporate Experience
Pathway

What is the Corporate Experience Pathway?

The Corporate Experience pathway is for graduates who are curious about how organisations set direction, make decisions, prioritise investment and transform to deliver meaningful outcomes. You’ll become part of a team that helps clients tackle complex business challenges.

Our work spans the full transformation lifecycle, from defining future direction and designing how organisations operate to helping clients make informed investment decisions and realise value.

We help clients answer some of their most important questions:

• How do we translate strategy into action and make it stick?
• Which investments will create the greatest value, and how should we prioritise them?
• What capabilities do we need to deliver our strategy?
• How should we organise ourselves to achieve our ambitions?
• How can we build a compelling case for change and secure investment?
• How do we modernise finance and improve performance and decision-making?
• How do we ensure transformation delivers measurable and lasting value?
• How will AI reshape organisations, workforces and operating models?

This pathway could be right for you if you’re interested in strategy, business transformation, organisational change and helping clients make better decisions that deliver measurable outcomes.

Your Accelerate Journey

The Institute: First three months

The Institute is a unique and immersive part of Capgemini Invent UK’s award-winning Accelerate Programme, designed to help you build the foundations of a successful consulting career. Following a three-week induction, you’ll spend 12 weeks developing core consulting skills through structured learning, practical assignments and real business challenges. With dedicated coaching, support and regular feedback, you’ll build confidence and gain hands-on experience before moving into client-facing work and live projects within your chosen pathway.

The Academy: Next 18 months

Following the Institute, you’ll join the Corporate Experience Academy, where you’ll gain hands-on consulting experience, follow a structured learning pathway and receive support from a community of peers, mentors and leaders. Alongside client work, you’ll have opportunities to explore different areas of Corporate Experience through rotations, internal roles and capability-specific learning

Where Could the Corporate Experience Pathway Take You?

Corporate Experience brings together specialist capabilities that help organisations move from strategic ambition to sustainable outcomes and measurable impact.

Strategy & Business Modelling

Helping organisations define their strategic direction and understand how they create value and how this could evolve.

Business Architecture

Defining the capabilities and structures organisations need to turn their strategy into action.

Strategic Portfolio Management

Helping organisations prioritise investments and manage transformation portfolios effectively.

Operating Model & Organisation Design

Helping organisations prioritise investments and manage transformation portfolios effectively.

Operating Model & Organisation Design

Designing organisations, processes and ways of working that enable strategy delivery.

Value Strategy & Modelling

Supporting smarter investment and transformation decisions through financial modelling and value assessment.

Business Case Development

Building compelling cases for change and helping organisations secure investment.

Finance Transformation & Value Realisation

Helping organisations modernise finance, improve performance and ensure transformation delivers measurable benefits.

Career opportunities

Associate Consultant role	What you’ll be doing
Business Analyst	Helping clients to understand problems, structure information and turn stakeholder input into clear requirements or recommendations.
Operating Model & Organisation Design Consultant	Supporting organisations to design their people, process and technology transformation, including facilitating workshops and engagements with all levels of the organisation and being responsible for the delivery of artefacts that will enable their strategy.
PMO or Delivery Support Consultant	Supporting the programme delivery stay organised and on track through planning, governance, actions, risks and reporting, all whilst learning the fundamentals of how a programme works.
Value Strategy & Modelling Consultant	Enabling our clients to make smarter investment and transformation decisions through building clear financial models to show where value lies, defining the business case for change, and tracking delivery to prove real impact.
Business Model Consultant	Working closely with senior stakeholders to help them understand the details of how their organisation generates value and how this could change in the future.
Change Consultant	Working closely with stakeholders to understand the vision for change, identify the impacts of the change on the business, and support clients to embed new ways of working through engagement, communications, training or adoption activities.

The roles you take on will depend on the client challenge, project and your development priorities. Following successful completion of the Institute and Academy, you’ll be eligible for promotion from Associate Consultant to Consultant.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for people who are curious about the world around them and interested in the challenges organisations face as they navigate change.

You might find yourself reading about AI, discussing how businesses are responding to new pressures, questioning why organisations are structured in a particular way or exploring how leaders make investment decisions.

You don’t need to arrive with every skill or all the answers. We’re looking for people who demonstrate some of the following qualities and are motivated to continue developing them.

We’re looking for people who are curious about:

• How organisations adapt and respond to change, whether that’s new technologies, market shifts or changing customer expectations
• How businesses make decisions, set priorities and balance competing demands
• How strategy becomes reality, turning ideas and ambitions into practical action
• The impact of technology, data and AI on organisations, industries and the way people work
• How organisations create value, improve performance and deliver better outcomes for customers, employees and society

These individuals also demonstrate the following attributes:

• Curiosity and a desire to learn, with the ability to self-reflect and seek out development opportunities
• Problem-solving skills, with the ability to approach challenges logically and think critically
• Strong communication and collaboration, with the confidence to share ideas and work effectively with others
• Adaptability and resilience, thriving in new situations and responding positively to change
• Ownership and initiative, taking responsibility for outcomes and proactively seeking opportunities to contribute

Learning & Development

How will I develop?

Throughout the Corporate Experience pathway, you’ll develop the behaviours, capability expertise and technical knowledge needed to become a well-rounded consultant.

Through project work, internal contributions and professional qualifications, you’ll gain practical experience alongside regular feedback, coaching and mentoring. You’ll build on your strengths, identify development priorities and apply new skills across different projects and activities.

Dedicated Corporate Experience learning pathway

The Corporate Experience Academy learning pathway includes capability specific trainings across our core capabilities:

• Strategic Analysis 
• Strategic Portfolio 
• Business Model Transformation 
• Operating Model Practitioner 
• Public Sector Business Case 
• Commercial Modelling & Financial Modelling 
• Understanding Generative & Agentic AI 
• Organisation Design

There are also professional qualifications to choose from, including:

• CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accounting)
• Leading SAFe
• Information Management Fundamentals (DMBOK)
• TOGAF Business Architecture

Building your core consulting skills

You will continue to develop six core soft skills throughout the programme:

• Collaboration: Building trusted relationships and working effectively with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: Analysing challenges, evaluating options and developing evidence-based recommendations.
• Proactivity: Taking ownership, showing initiative and delivering work independently.
• Communication: Listening actively, asking questions and communicating ideas clearly.
• Adaptability: Responding positively to change, navigating ambiguity and learning from feedback.
• Curiosity: Expanding your knowledge through continuous learning and development.

You’ll also have opportunities to build technical skills. Depending on your projects, interests and development goals, these may include:

• Insight Generation: Conducting research, identifying patterns and turning findings into clear recommendations.
• Quantitative Analysis: Interpreting data, building models and supporting commercial decision-making.
• Visualisation: Creating impactful presentations, dashboards and other visual materials.
• Delivery Methodology: Developing an understanding of transformation, agile and process improvement approaches.
• Using AI/Automation: Leveraging AI, data and low-code tools to improve processes and accelerate delivery.

What You Can Expect

The Corporate Experience pathway combines varied client experiences, structured development and opportunities to take on responsibility early in your career. You’ll work alongside experienced consultants while building your network, exploring different areas of the team and developing the skills needed to progress your career.