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What is the Accelerate Intelligent Industry Pathway?

The Intelligent Industry pathway of the Accelerate programme is designed for talented graduates passionate about leveraging a human-centric approach to transform and reinvent our ways of working, our connection with each other and our customers and suppliers.  

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 will join the Intelligent Industry Academy. Intelligent Industry is made up of 5 capability teams. A more in-depth view of the teams can be found below:

The Focus of Your Role

As an Associate Consultant you will embark on a stimulating and exciting journey where you will develop key skills that influence how our clients evolve the way they work, perform, and achieve their goals. You’ll have the opportunity to work on large scale transformation programmes. You will ensure the smooth delivery of end-to-end projects by working flexibly, demonstrating intellectual capability, and delivering innovative solutions for clients.

The day-to-day tasks can vary from engagement with senior stakeholders, conducting analysis of data or business requirements, designing business strategies through to delivering workshops and collaboratively working in cross-functional teams to drive continuous business performance improvement.

What you will need

We are interested to hear from you if you have experience working in the industries we operate in and are keen to start a career in an environment where you can drive change. 

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

  • A passion for problem solving and eager to optimise and increase the effectiveness of operational models that increase value for businesses 
  • Natural curiosity about how technology can solve business and world problems 
  • A curiosity or familiarity with emerging and innovative technology such as: AI, IoT, Edge Computing, 5G, digital twins and more c
  • A strong desire to work in a fast-paced environment alongside senior client stakeholders to articulate the value of using intelligent data to customers as a key part of any business’ growth and transformation strategy 
  • An interest in any of our target sectors for where we work with leading multinational companies: 
    • Consumer Products & Retail 
    • Energy, Utilities & Nuclear
    • Manufacturing, Automotive & Life Sciences  
    • Life Sciences 
    • Financial Services 
    • Public Sector 

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 (all currently being held virtually). 

Learning & Development

When you enter the Intelligent Industry Academy, a heavy emphasis is placed on your development and being able to learn a variety of skills in a multitude of environments. Capgemini has an existing suite of trainings with 3600+ courses from 160+ internationally recognised universities to support your development across all industry critical topics. 

During the programme you will benefit from wider learning opportunities and can choose from a suite of accreditations and courses including: 

  • Agile Scrum Master & Agile Product Owner 
  • Robotic Process Automation (AutoCertif) 
  • Business Analyst Process Mapping 
  • Process Mining 
  • Lean Yellow Belt & Green Belt 
  • Data Visualisation with PowerBI and Tableau 
  • Consulting Sales Foundations 

Alongside the above courses you will have the opportunity to deepen your content knowledge in your specific areas of interest through our Accelerate Core Consulting Pathways, designed to upskill you in areas such as strategic analysis, operating model transformation and cloud computing among other topics. You’ll also benefit from Leadership Connect sessions to help you learn more about your leadership team in Intelligent Industry and bring you closer to the team, alongside monthly deep dive sessions into the work we conduct in our Intelligent Industry sub teams. 

What you can expect

Working alongside a world-class team with a wealth of consulting and industry experience, you will begin to create relationships across the organisation and acquire a foundation of consulting skills, tools and methodologies to help you accelerate your career. You will be part of a project team, building trust-based relationships at the heart of a client’s organisation, helping them change the way they work and transforming their business to achieve their goals. You’ll get early responsibility and build your skills through interesting and challenging work. 

Amelia Otley

Intelligent Process and Performance
March 2023 Intake

“The variety of opportunities across Intelligent Industry and the Accelerate scheme has allowed me to develop capability specific skillsets and utilise this understanding to solve a range of complex client challenges. My most recent challenge being the acceleration to market in the pharmaceutical industry. The Accelerate scheme fosters a learning environment and trainings range from external Agile qualifications to process mapping to automation and vendor specific sessions. I’ve also has opportunities to lead internal initiatives, develop client offers and hone wider consultation skillsets such as stakeholder management and workshop facilitation, all underpinned with the support and guidance from Intelligent Industry.”

Wilfred Nokes

Digital Engineering
November 2022 Intake

“Having the support of a people manager, a buddy, and coaches in the programme provides a learning environment that allows the accelerated development of consulting skills in a safe environment, rich in feedback. There are also a plethora of relevant training opportunities to boost your career growth. These are both internal courses and certified qualifications such as the Agile Scrum Master and Product Owner, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, and Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.”

Why Capgemini Invent?

As a team, we value:

Engagement: We believe in providing a stimulating working environment where our consultants are empowered to share their values and are engaged in purposeful work.

Inclusiveness: We are building a diverse and inclusive environment that embraces and values different points of view. We run regular meetups, alumni events, and away days twice a year – all as chances to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

Diversity: Capgemini positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We are committed to hiring, developing and retaining the best people to deliver innovative, world-class solutions for our clients. We foster an inclusive culture that enables everyone to achieve their full potential and enjoy a fulfilling career with us. Our comprehensive flexible benefits package and lifestyle policies enable our employees to balance their individual, family and work-life needs.

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

As an Agile Business Analyst, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, having responsibility for understanding client needs, and using Agile methodology to continue to define, adapt and build our client’s solutions. 

 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. 

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 Process Consultant, you will be responsible for a understanding a specific client process/function/set of activities. You will understand how the client currently completes various business activities, conduct analysis and provide recommendations for improvement. 

As a PMO, you will support the Project/Programme Manager with the overall programme coordination. You build detailed project plans, keep projects on budget, track progress, and analyse project data to identify areas of improvement.   

As a Scrum Master, you will guide teams and organisations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices. You will facilitate reviews, retrospectives, daily stand ups and planning meetings, working closely with the scrum team and stakeholders, dealing with blockers and impediments. 

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