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What is the Corporate Experience Pathway? 

The Corporate Experience (CE) pathway of the Accelerate programme is designed for talented individuals, passionate about devising innovative and sustainable strategies across a range of industries and structuring how an organisation operates to deliver on its strategy. Our core capabilities – Strategy and Business Architecture, Value Strategy and Modelling, Operating Model and Organisation Design, Finance Transformation – seek to address our end-to-end corporate and technology-focused transformations from strategy through to operating model. 

The Accelerate Programme consists of 2 parts:  

  • The Institute (circa 3 months) 
  • The Academy (circa 18 months) 

Your first 3 months of the Accelerate Programme will be spent within The Institute, where you will learn core consulting skills and gain a broad understanding of everything we do at Capgemini Invent within a feed-back rich environment. 

Following your time in The Institute, you’ll then join the Corporate Experience Academy where you’ll work across a range of our capabilities to help you develop and flourish through common interests, developing new skillsets, and learning through new experience 

The Focus of Your Role

As an Associate Consultant, you’ll embark on an exciting and impactful journey, developing key skills that influence how our clients evolve their ways of working and achieve their goals. Your day-to-day tasks may include designing cutting-edge strategies and operating models, modelling financial data to assess the performance of investments, or facilitating workshops to support clients to make strategic decisions. This role will allow you to kick-start your career in consulting and will provide you with opportunities for you to make an immediate impact with our clients. 

The types of work we do:  

Below, we take a deeper diver into our core capabilities which form the basis for client engagements:
 

  • Strategy & Business Architecture: defining an organisation’s vision and aligning it with their overarching business objectives. Adapting business models for success in a changing industry and identifying the capabilities required to execute a strategy.
  • Value Strategy & Modelling: building financial models to evaluate transformation initiatives, quantify business benefits, and assess commercial viability 
  • Operating Model & Organisational Design: organising resources and structuring an organisation’s components to deliver their strategy and business model. 
  • Finance Transformation: developing and implementing new tools, technologies, or ways of working in the finance function of organisations

What you will need

We are looking for candidates with an interest in our core capabilities, who are eager to kickstart a career in an environment where they can drive change. We are keen to hear from graduates, as well as candidates with work experience from internships, placement years, or in early careers. 

Ideally, you will have some or all of the following: 

  • A natural curiosity in end-to-end enterprise transformations and an inquisitive mindset to learn about our primary offerings 
  • A desire to operate in a fast-paced environment alongside senior stakeholders to articulate the value of transformations to our clients  
  • The ability to effectively communicate and simplify complex ideas in a digestible and accessible way for our clients 
  • A logical mindset and strong problem-solving abilities 
  • Demonstrates proactivity and ownership, working collaboratively with others to support team objectives and goals 
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise in a fast-paced work environment 

At Capgemini Invent, although academics form part of our overall hiring decision, we do not select candidates purely on academic performance. We will assess your suitability for a role using several tools including video interviewing and assessment centres. 

Learning & Development

When you enter the Corporate Experience Academy, there is a heavy emphasis on your development and being able to learn a variety of skills in a multitude of environments. 

During the programme you will benefit from wider learning opportunities and can select from a suite of professional qualifications and accreditations. 

Professional qualifications to choose from include: 

  • Agile Scrum Master 
  • Product Owner 
  • CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accounting) 
  • PRINCE2 / Lean Six Sigma (6σ) (Yellow Belt) 
  • Information Management Fundamentals (DMBOK) 
  • TOGAF Business Architecture 

Training and accreditations available include: 

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

What you can expect

Working alongside a team with a wealth of consulting and industry experience, you will begin to create relationships across the organisation. You’ll acquire a foundation of core consulting skills, tools and methodologies to accelerate your career. You’ll be part of a project team at the heart of a client’s organisation, supporting them in transforming their business and changing their ways of working. You’ll gain early responsibility and build your skills through engaging, interesting and challenging work.  

Jenson Harris  

 June 2024 Intake 

“The Corporate Experience Academy has been the perfect environment to gain broad experience early in my career. In just one year, I’ve worked on projects across Public Sector, Energy, and Life Sciences. Currently, I’m supporting a global pharmaceutical company in streamlining clinical trial timelines. The Academy’s continuous support and high-quality training have helped me expand my expertise. Beyond professional growth, team and company-wide events have offered valuable opportunities to build connections and strengthen relationships across the business.” 

Ella Parry

April 2022 Intake

“The Institute provided a safe space to gain new skills and apply them across internal assignments. Weekly ceremonies offered regular chances to present to peers and receive feedback from coaches, helping me identify areas for growth. The fast-paced environment and varied training helped me quickly build core consulting skills. I’m now supporting a leading supermarket retailer in redesigning supply chain operations to improve efficiency and unlock valuable technological capabilities.” 

Why Capgemini Invent?

 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. 

Within the Corporate Experience Academy there are a variety of roles that you may take on, that include but are not limited to:

As an Operating Model & Organisation Design Consultant, you will support organisations to design their people, process and technology transformation. You will facilitate workshops and engagements with all levels of the organisation and be responsible for the delivery of artefacts that will deliver their strategy. 

As a Strategy Consultant, you will work closely with senior stakeholders to define the strategic choices that will steer the organisation, as well as the transformations they need to put in place in order to deliver their new strategy. 

As a Business Model Consultant, you will work closely with senior stakeholders to help them understand the details of how their organisation generates value and how this could change in the future. 

As a Value Strategy & Decision Modelling Consultant, you will help Capgemini and our clients make smarter investment and transformation decisions. You will build clear financial models to show where value lies, define the business case for change, and track delivery to prove real impact. 

As a Business Analyst, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with our stakeholders, translating requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria.   

As a Change Consultant, you will work closely with stakeholders to understand the vision for change and identify the impacts of the change on the business, communicating these impacts to wider stakeholders. 

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