Company: Capgemini
Location: London
Posted: May 1st, 2026
As Engagement Director, you will operate at the pinnacle of Capgeminis Public Business Unita trusted leader shaping the future of public sector transformation. Youll be at the helm of major client engagements, steering strategic business growth and orchestrating complex, high-impact programmes that touch millions of lives across the UK.
This is not just a leadership roleits an opportunity to influence the direction of national services by partnering directly with senior Public Sector stakeholders, earning their trust as a strategic advisor.
If you are ready to make a lasting markdelivering transformation at scale, growing the business, and building trusted relationships at the highest levelsthis is your opportunity. Join us and help define what excellence looks like for the UK public sector.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time. For this role it is expected that you will work from the London, Telford or Worthing office 3 days per week.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)
Client Engagement & Relationship Management: act as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders, building trusted advisor relationships and ensuring satisfaction across all touchpoints. This senior leadership role is responsible for driving company-wide impact by leading multiple teams and strategic initiatives, aligning strategies with organisational priorities and client value creation.
Programme Delivery: Lead the delivery of complex transformation programmes, ensuring they meet client objectives, are delivered on time and within budget, and are aligned with Capgeminis quality standards.
Accountability & Impact: This role is accountable for driving long-term outcomes across multiple practices, business lines, and markets, ensuring significant client and commercial impact. The position focuses on delivering excellence, maintaining high client satisfaction, and optimizing operational efficiency.
Solution Development: Shape and refine Capgeminis public sector propositions, integrating digital, data, and emerging technology capabilities to address client challenges.
Strategic Growth: Drive business development activities, including identifying new opportunities, leading proposals and bids, and growing consulting revenues through both existing and new client relationships
Governance & Risk: Oversee engagement governance, proactively manage risks and issues, and ensure compliance with all regulatory and contractual obligations, particularly those relevant to public sector delivery.
Stakeholder Management: Navigate complex stakeholder environments, both internally and externally, to ensure successful engagement outcomes.
Leadership / People Management: The role requires a distinguished leader with a proven reputation for demonstrating advanced leadership dimensions and behaviours. The successful candidate will lead large, complex, cross-functional teams or major business functions, typically managing senior leaders and directors.
Internal Contribution: Contribute to practice development through thought leadership, internal campaigns, recruitment, and participation in key business initiatives.
Subject to experience, support global flying squads on new business opportunities and engagement recoveries.
You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Capgemini is proud to be aDisability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
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To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
Your wellbeing
Youd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
Impactful Experiences
You will reimagine whats possible: creating value for the worlds leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.
Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, youll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine whats possible. Its why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses, and its how youll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, youll build the skills you want. Youll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of 22.5 billion.
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