Vice President

**Who you’ll be working with**:
At Capgemini Invent we ideate and bring to life what’s next for our clients. By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

As a globally renowned technology and digital leader, we have the responsibility, the ambition, and the means to contribute to solving major societal questions that are shaping our future world. **Invent for Society **aims to value how social impact is part of the fabric of what we do.

The Retail Industry is massively disrupted. New entrants, the explosion of media touchpoints, changing consumer expectations, digital innovation and access to data has changed the playing field for many retail companies.

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**An overview of the role**:
As a global leader in strategy and transformation, Capgemini Invent provide industry-specific services and guidance to the world’s leading retail companies. Over the last 5 years, Capgemini Invent have achieved continued growth and are now seeking to recruit a Vice President to support the continued expansion in the sector.

Our retail business brings together skills and expertise from across the Capgemini Invent capability units and works closely with other service lines across the Group. We oversee a portfolio which covers some of the biggest names in UK retail, across the apparel, grocery, GM and QSR sub-sectors. As part of a joint sector unit with our Consumer Products business we work together where sector boundaries continue to blur with the rise of D2C and the face of traditional retail evolves. We believe in a ‘sustainable by default’ mindset, working closely with Capgemini Invent’s centre of excellence for sustainability to challenge our thinking and that of our clients.

**The Work**:
No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied, whether fostering our reputation within a new account, or growing and expanding our footprint within a strategic one.

We help our clients to become more customer focused, to embrace the power of new technologies, data science and the digital revolution, to explore new business models, to control costs and add value for customers and to achieve their environment and sustainability commitments. We have deep expertise across the end-to-end value chain and our teams are built with people who have ‘walked the shopfloor’ and truly understand the challenges of our clients from both sides.

As a VP in our retail sector team you will lead Capgemini’s engagement with one of more of our major accounts and help to bring together the best of Capgemini’s offers and bring to life what’s next for your client. In doing so you will work with a diverse set of colleagues from within Invent and other parts of Capgemini, drawing from our global networks and experience. Alongside this you will be pivotal to the development and implementation of our profitable growth ambition.

**Collaboration and Innovation**:
Innovation is at the heart of our retail business. Last year we opened Cornershop, an innovation store in east London, where we are trialling new concepts, partnering with start-ups and establishing co-innovation projects with new and existing clients. We believe seeing concepts in action, learning fast and scaling quick is a necessary capability for our clients to be disruptive in the market and keep pace with customer expectations. This spirit of rapid innovation transcends all our retail projects, be it the use of data science to prove complex supply chain hypotheses, building agility into core ERP landscapes or seeking new ways for retailers to engage with their customers.

**Why this role?**:
Working with the Consumer Products, Retail and Distribution Sector Head you’ll become part of a team that develops next generation solutions to transform retail companies. As a **Vice President**, you will take a leadership role in the Capgemini Invent retail business. You will be responsible for leading the growth of our Retail sector. You’ll develop our client relationships and also oversee key transformation programmes for clients. You’ll represent Capgemini Invent and develop relationships with wider Consumer Products and Retail teams and our service lines both within the UK and globally.

You’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team. Key expectations from this role include:

- Developing and executing an effective go-to-market strategy for our retail business that will position it for significant growth
- Working with the Head of Consumer Products and Retail for Capgemini Invent to ensure the co