Senior Consultant - Retail & Central Markets

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is looking for a consultant in Manchester for their Energy Transition & Utilities practice. The role involves working on technical regulatory changes, assessing energy industry systems, and providing guidance on compliance. Ideal candidates should possess expertise in GB Energy Market regulation, experience with central bodies, and management consulting skills. The position offers a collaborative work environment, flexible arrangements, and supports individual well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee well-being programs

Diversity initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in GB energy market systems and regulation.
• Understanding of central market operations.
• Experience in defining digital technology requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and assess technical changes to energy industry systems.
• Ensure implementation of industry changes.
• Provide technical guidance on regulatory frameworks.
• Support development of solutions for industry challenges.
• Undertake ad-hoc projects as required.

Skills

Understanding of GB Energy Market regulation

Management consulting skills

Technical change management

Stakeholder engagement

Operational improvement

Job description

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your role:

As part of the huge growth in demand in our Energy Transition & Utilities practice, we are seeking a consultant to join our highly talented team, working on the delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services across our sector.
Our clients within Energy Transition & Utilities include those within the sub-sectors of Energy Networks, Energy Retail, Energy Central Markets, Water and Nuclear.

Driven by major investment in the sector and the unique position of our Capgemini Invent business, we are seeing a significant increase in demand for our services and teams. Our vast utilities experience, strong strategic and business transformation skillset, a deep understanding of digital, data and a highly collaborative approach has allowed us to build a successful track record of delivering leading edge consulting services and solutions for our clients.

The successful candidate will join our Central Markets sub-sector, where they will bring experience in GB energy market systems and regulation, either as a consultant, or from working within the industry for a central body, energy supplier or network operator. You will leverage this experience and insight to primarily work on technical regulatory changes. Key activities for the role include:

• Developing and assessing technical changes to energy industry central systems
• Ensuring effective implementation of industry changes from a central code body perspective
• Providing advice and guidance on technical aspects of the regulatory framework and the technical systems that support that framework
• Providing technical guidance to support the development of solutions to address industry challenges
• Providing training and support to industry parties
• Develop and implement strategies to support our clients in improving energy consumer outcomes
• Undertaking ad-hoc projects as required

As a member of the wider Energy Transition & Utilities (ET&U) sector, you will also have opportunity to get involved in initiatives across ET&U, for example, supporting revenue generation opportunities with new and existing clients.

Your profile:

You’ll have a blend of the experience below:

• Regulation – An understanding of GB Energy Market regulation, with SME level expertise in industry systems.
• Technical Operations - defining new ways of working and new processes, working with industry parties to define solutions that address industry challenges; and/or
• Central Markets experience – developed by working with or for the organisations that are in scope – such as Ofgem, DESNZ, NESO, Elexon, DCC, RECCo and more.

You will also bring management consulting skills, which may include all or some of:

• Defining and delivering digital technology requirements
• Managing technical change effectively
• Applying working knowledge of modern architecture frameworks and technologies
• Identifying and resolving client issues and problems
• Defining and delivering change programmes
• Driving operational improvement and delivery
• Managing industry change and stakeholder engagement
• Demonstrating experience in delivering within varying team sizes and collaborating with multiple stakeholders at different seniority levels to achieve tangible, positive outcomes

What you'll love about working here:

You’ll thrive in a collaborative and diverse environment that empowers you to innovate, grow your skills, and make a real impact—whether you’re shaping solutions for clients or driving positive change in society. You will be supported by a culture that values inclusion, continuous learning, and the freedom to bring your authentic self to work every day.

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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

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 a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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