Roles
As a Business Technology Consultant on our graduate programme you will get to work on a diverse range of projects all within the IT lifecycle. Working on a variety of projects allows you to develop your team working and communications skills as well as allowing you the opportunity to work with key clients and senior project sponsors within Capgemini.
Information Management
Roles in the Information Management(IM) practice at Capgemini vary enormously, which is part of the appeal. Consultants working in IM need to have skills in many disciplines and technologies. Broadley it includes Document Management, Records Management, Business Process Management and Enterprise Search.
As an IM consultant you may be gathering requirements, designing processes, configuring technology or customising it with your programming skills. IM roles allow graduates to experience both business and technical aspects of a project. Communication, presentation and organisation skills will develop quickly whilst working with a client. IM teams are often small which means that you are guaranteed responsibility and variety.
Sales
If you are looking for a challenge, there is certainly a no more dynamic environment to find yourself in than the ‘Proposal Studio’. It acts as the focal point for incoming bids, where they are evaluated for content, and redistributed to a relevant person who assumes the role of the assigned bid manager. The preliminary stages of a bid require careful analysis of the clients’ needs, from which a ‘solution’ is then generated
Once placed in a team working on a specific bid, your designated responsibilities could span a broad spectrum of tasks and roles, which could involve collating information, managing a specific area of expertise or deciding on the most effective manner for information to be communicated to the client.
Accelerated Solutions Environment
The Accelerated Solutions Environment combines world-class facilitation teams, patented, decision-making processes, global knowledge bases and innovative workspaces to enable clients to make better and faster business decisions. Working in the ASE provides you with an opportunity to bring out your creative side from helping choose graphics to choosing music for an event. As a facilitator you work closely with the client to ensure they are getting the most out of the event.
Project Management Office
If it’s an insight you want of what really takes place behind the scenes of large and complex projects, then a role within the Project Management Office (PMO) will provide you with the ideal opportunity to gain exposure to the everyday running of a project.
The responsibilities of a project analyst within the PMO can vary greatly, but common ground can be found around activities including the management of project plans, management of risks and issues, forecasting of resources and change management to name but a few. With such a spectrum of activities, your opportunity to liaise with key stakeholders of your project from Project Managers, Client Directors, Account Mangers is almost a certainty. At the same time, you’ll gain experience around how projects are managed through different phases of the project lifecycle.
It is exactly this experience that a role within the PMO can make you a well rounded individual, as understanding why certain processes are in place is vital across all involved in a project.
Business Analyst
Fancy yourself facilitating client workshops where you are in control of the outcome? Business Analysis roles can give you the extensive opportunity to define the process in which an end deliverable is achieved.
Business Analysis is a great opportunity for people who really like to interact with both processes, and people. Although the type of work can vary considerably, the fundamental functions of a Business Analyst are transferable.
It gives you the opportunity to be responsible for understanding the core business processes. You will be involved in arranging workshops to capture information often working one to one with clients. and the design of new processes using industry standard mapping tools to discover the “as is” state of the business as well as designing the” to be” processes.
The role provides a fantastic opportunity to practice your people skills working closely with clients and to apply your knowledge of industry standard tools.
Implementation Manager
The Implementation Management role consists of managing all the clients’ releases of developed software into the live environment. This includes managing the production of an implementation management plan; collecting the relevant quality documentation from the client, ensuring conformance to process and liaising with various groups to locate resource and expertise.
Whilst on this role, two skills are essential and also greatly enhanced, they are effective communication and organisational skills. are vital as the implementation process has very strict controls in place and these are required to be planned around the release and completed to the client and Aspires satisfaction
Architecture
If you are looking for a challenging and problem solving role then the area of architecture can provide some exciting opportunities. Working as a tool model manager acts as a fantastic starting point to this area of expertise. The role sits within a Strategy and Innovation team and allows you to gain first hand experience of the work that architects carry out on a daily basis. It can build a solid foundation for furthering your career as a business or IT architect.
This experience allows you to meet a large number of contacts at all levels of the internal and client organisation. It helps to develop and improve a large number of core consulting skills including, communication, through liaising with colleagues, clients and suppliers on a regular basis; presentation and training skills; technical and organisational skills. Above all the team of people around you make the role both enjoyable and rewarding as it serves a real purpose to the organisation and client.
