Senior Consultant- HR & Employee Experience User Researcher

Capgemini Invent • Remote (London, ENG, GB) • 2w ago

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

In a world of rapidly evolving employee expectations, digital transformation, and new service delivery models, organisations are facing major disruptions that require HR and people practices to transform the way they think and act. Our Employee Experience & HR teams’ purpose is to help our clients rethink employee experience and build digitally driven HR functions capable of keeping up with the pace of change and delivering exceptional strategic value to the business.

As an Employee Experience Designer (Senior Consultant) in our Employee Experience & HR Team, you’ll play a key role in driving forward the business, modelling our values and behaviours, and coaching and developing junior members of the team. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Collaborate with HR stakeholders and employees to understand their pain points, challenges, and objectives related to employee experience and HR processes.

Analyse current HR processes and practices, identifying areas for improvement and optimisation.

Translate HR requirements and employee data into experience solutions, initiatives, and strategies, ensuring alignment with the client’s vision and scope of work.

Design moments that matter, current and future state experience journeys, experience strategies and process maps using employee data and requirements.

Lead workshops and meetings with employees and senior HR stakeholders to gather requirements, demonstrate solution capabilities, and solicit feedback for continuous improvement.

Provide guidance and expertise on HR and experience trends, industry best practices, and technological advancements to drive innovation and efficiency.

Foster strong relationships with HR teams, acting as a trusted advisor and consultant throughout the implementation lifecycle.

Lead project workstreams by taking ownership for delivering work against key project deadlines and guiding more junior members where necessary.

Mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing activities to enhance team capabilities and expertise in Employee/People Experience solutions.

Proactively assisting and supporting in the management and leadership of client engagements, while reporting to Managers and above.

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

Relevant experience working on HR and/or Employee Experience solutions for a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry.

Proven track record and expertise in User Research, User-Centred Design, and/or Employee Experience Transformation.

Experience in persona building, employee data gathering, journey mapping, process design, and building experience strategies.

Knowledge and/or experience working and delivering solutions for clients in the Public and Defence sectors.

Please Note: Candidates must either already possess or be eligible to apply for Security Clearance (SC level) to be eligible for the role

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

As an Employee Experience (EX) Designer you will be at the forefront of shaping positive, engaging, and meaningful work environments for employees across multiple industries and organisations. Engaging with a range of clients, you will utilise your skills in user research, user-centred design, and people experience transformation to design holistic experiences that span the entire employee lifecycle – from onboarding to offboarding – and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create experience strategies, programmes, and initiatives that drive engagement, satisfaction, and productivity. This role goes beyond traditional HR practices, utilising best-in-class methodologies and leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, and Gen AI to design targeted solutions that delight employees and meet their critical needs.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to build our Employee Experience & HR team. You will take an active role within our practice, contributing to our vision to become the UK’s leading Employee Experience & HR Advisory consultancies through co-creating a culture in which every team-member feels comfortable bringing their whole self to work and is empowered to deliver, grow, innovate, and have fun along the way.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion 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.

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 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.