Service Designer (SC Eligible) - Consultant/Senior Consultant - Digital Excellence

Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Select your locationSelect your locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.London, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle# Service Designer (SC Eligible) - Consultant/Senior Consultant - Digital Excellence# 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 You will champion inclusive design practices throughout our project lifecycles, ensuring solutions are accessible to as many users as possible. This includes engaging with diverse user research, applying accessibility guidelines and legislation, and advocating for inclusive design principles in your deliverables.Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working with major clients in both public and private sector. Our offices are in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working, however depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations. As a Service Designer you will: Maximise the value we deliver for our clients right from the inception to real life application of Service Design. Support our clients through the end-to-end service design process to design and develop innovative products and services. This process will be all the way from ideation and inception through to solution build and testing. Champion user-centricity - with a set of tools and methods you can draw upon to embed design thinking / user-centricity Work on new ideas and work alongside solution team to design and develop innovative products and services Use current and emerging trends to identify and lead improvements to existing services as well as introduce innovative and industry first service experiences influencing service managers, user researchers, UI/UX designers and programme directors to understand the value as a result of user focused transformation As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories: Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events. Internal contribution - Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development. Learning & development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc. YOUR PROFILE You will bring below skills and experience: Proven experience working across a service design process, autonomously with minimal support Experience working with Government Digital Service ( GDS ) service standards, applying GDS design principles Ability to create service design artefacts and outputs , such as current and future-state user journeys, personas, service concepts, service blueprints and other artefacts Ability to identify potential accessibility barriers for complex user groups Client readiness', with experience facilitating workshops, design sprints, ideation sessions or similar Ability to visualise complex services in an easy-to-understand format for varying audiences Ability to adopt a curious and inquisitive mindset - with a passion for asking 'why' Ability to critically break down complex problems in a fast-paced environment, with a knack for storytelling Strong understanding and experience of working in an agile (scrum) environment in a cross-functional team including but not limited to user researchers, UX/UI designers, business analysts, product owners, delivery managers and developers Ability to manage competing priorities in a tight timeframe with a proactive mindset Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance competing views as part of the design process Aptitude for being an advocate for user-centricity , with the ability to develop and translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs and engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users SC (Security Check) Clearance or being eligible for this level of clearance (by being a UK resident for at least 5 years and not having left the country for more than 28 consecutive days during this period) You'll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies. Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array for different training and certifications in a variety of areas: cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Spring Boot), DevOps (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM) and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client's outcomes. Les Fontaines : Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought-leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed. We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. There are monthly team drinks, and it's a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.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. In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK. More information is at available at: levelExperienced ProfessionalsLocationLondon, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle