Vice President / Head of Practice
Job description
As Head of Practice, you will lead a passionate, diverse, and growing team of over 2,500 UK based IT professionals delivering services for our UK clients. The practice includes a variety of capabilities organised around professional communities including Engineers, Project Managers, User Experience Designers, and Architects.
- Developing our recruitment and attraction strategy and growth targets across all professional disciplines
- Designing and implementing our approach to continuously evolve our professional capabilities in line with industry trends and client demand
- Evolving our organisation structure in line with client demand and industry direction
- Creating the career framework to support individual and team growth and development through role assignments, rotations, academies, training, and mentorships
- Managing the supply of capability into our client delivery teams
- Working with UK and Global practices alongside our ecosystem of partners to source specialist skills
- Defining the methods, tools, standards, we use within each of our professions
- Creating vibrant and active professional communities that share knowledge, experience and engage with local communities, academic and industry groups
- Actively supporting our People Strategy around attracting, engaging and developing Talent
- Leading large teams of (500+) of IT Professionals in a projects/consulting service business
- A track record of running large scale (100+ people) recruitment campaigns and growing capacity including setting up academies and junior talent programmes
- Ability to run a large P&L, performance management, managing against supply and demand KPIs
- A deep understanding of industry trends and how this will influence future capability demands
- A strong network of contacts across the technology industry - particularly recruitment and potential partners
- Experience across multiple sectors including government/public services
- Professional background in the technology industry, experience across the project lifecycle
- Ability to lead design and implement cultural and behavioral change initiatives
- Collaborative, and passionate for creating a great people experience
- Outstanding communications skills and ability to communicate and influence at all levels
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An understanding of the fundamental strategies necessary to support the employee lifecycle and a positive employee experience
We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to 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
At the Capgemini we offer opportunities to contribute to society, make a difference to the world and help Architects of Positive Futures. Through our sustainability framework Capgemini is at the cutting edge of helping organisations accelerate their net zero and wider sustainability ambitions.
Get the future you want
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is. Capgemini. Get The Future You Want.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion
