23 Digital Transformation jobs in the United Kingdom

A leading retail and wholesale organisation with a strong presence across Ireland is seeking a Head of Digital Transformation to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their wholesale technology landscape. This is a unique opportunity for a strategic IT leader to join a values-driven business that supports thousands of retail and food service operations across the island.
The OpportunityThe successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of wholesale operations across both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This role involves working closely with senior stakeholders to define and deliver a robust IT strategy that enhances customer experience, drives operational efficiency, and supports long-term business growth.
Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership:
  Collaborate with wholesale and retail teams to identify technology needs and opportunities, including in-store innovations.
• Technology Leadership:
  Define and implement IT strategies that align with business goals and enhance the wholesale customer journey.
• Project Delivery:
  Lead the successful delivery of complex IT projects, ensuring they are on time, within budget, and aligned with business priorities.
• Innovation & Improvement:
  Identify and implement scalable technology solutions that improve efficiency and performance.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, influencing and aligning teams around shared goals.
• Resource Management:
  Oversee budgets and resources to ensure sustainable and cost-effective technology investments.
• Emerging Tech:
  Evaluate and adopt new technologies that support long-term business objectives.

Essential Criteria

• 10+ years of experience in IT leadership roles, with a strong track record of delivering impactful technology projects.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with experience managing cross-functional and hybrid teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working in hybrid environments and managing change effectively.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess architecture and identify risks.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in retail or wholesale environments.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, or Kanban.
• A passion for customer-facing technology and software development.

What's on Offer

• Impact & Innovation:
  Be part of a forward-thinking organisation with a strong legacy and ambitious digital roadmap.
• Hybrid Flexibility:
  Enjoy a flexible working model with 2-4 monthly visits to key sites across Ireland.
• Inclusive Culture:
  Join a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture that values diversity and continuous improvement.
• Career Growth:
  Opportunities for professional development and career progression in a supportive environment.

Ready to Make a Difference?This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary IT leader to shape the future of wholesale technology in a dynamic and customer-focused environment. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply now and be part of a business where innovation, community, and excellence go hand in hand.

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A leading retail and wholesale organisation with a strong presence across Ireland is seeking a Head of Digital Transformation to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their wholesale technology landscape. This is a unique opportunity for a strategic IT leader to join a values-driven business that supports thousands of retail and food service operations across the island.
The OpportunityThe successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of wholesale operations across both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This role involves working closely with senior stakeholders to define and deliver a robust IT strategy that enhances customer experience, drives operational efficiency, and supports long-term business growth.
Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership:
  Collaborate with wholesale and retail teams to identify technology needs and opportunities, including in-store innovations.
• Technology Leadership:
  Define and implement IT strategies that align with business goals and enhance the wholesale customer journey.
• Project Delivery:
  Lead the successful delivery of complex IT projects, ensuring they are on time, within budget, and aligned with business priorities.
• Innovation & Improvement:
  Identify and implement scalable technology solutions that improve efficiency and performance.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, influencing and aligning teams around shared goals.
• Resource Management:
  Oversee budgets and resources to ensure sustainable and cost-effective technology investments.
• Emerging Tech:
  Evaluate and adopt new technologies that support long-term business objectives.

Essential Criteria

• 10+ years of experience in IT leadership roles, with a strong track record of delivering impactful technology projects.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with experience managing cross-functional and hybrid teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working in hybrid environments and managing change effectively.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess architecture and identify risks.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in retail or wholesale environments.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, or Kanban.
• A passion for customer-facing technology and software development.

What's on Offer

• Impact & Innovation:
  Be part of a forward-thinking organisation with a strong legacy and ambitious digital roadmap.
• Hybrid Flexibility:
  Enjoy a flexible working model with 2-4 monthly visits to key sites across Ireland.
• Inclusive Culture:
  Join a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture that values diversity and continuous improvement.
• Career Growth:
  Opportunities for professional development and career progression in a supportive environment.

Ready to Make a Difference?This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary IT leader to shape the future of wholesale technology in a dynamic and customer-focused environment. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply now and be part of a business where innovation, community, and excellence go hand in hand.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)

A leading retail and wholesale organisation with a strong presence across Ireland is seeking a Head of Digital Transformation to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their wholesale technology landscape. This is a unique opportunity for a strategic IT leader to join a values-driven business that supports thousands of retail and food service operations across the island.
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Location - Hybrid, London

Salary - £60-80k

Do you work in the field of digital, in the broadest sense? We’re looking for both people who consider themselves specialists (such as service designers, delivery managers or software developers) or generalists (playing a key role in making digital change or delivery happen, such as policy makers, strategists or digital team managers).

At Public Digital, we’ll ask you to apply those skills as consultants, but a style of consultancy grounded in lived experience: your lived experience, and the lived experiences of the wider Public Digital team. 

Day-to-day, you’ll be an advisor and coach, you’ll facilitate, convene, write and present. If you have specialist skills, you’ll sometimes apply those skills directly as a practitioner-coach - showing by doing, whilst helping our clients learn from the skills and experience you have.

We think Public Digital offers a unique opportunity - allowing those with digital skills and experience to amplify their impact. We think it’s also a unique way to learn, working closely, day-to-day, within teams with rich and broad experience different to your own. 

You’ll be asked to be part of multidisciplinary, multi-functional consulting teams, helping our varied clients with a diverse set of challenges and opportunities. From helping them deliver impactful digital services, researching complex new domains, or make tangible progress with large-scale organisational reform and culture change.

Join Public Digital, and do the best work of your life. We are interested in speaking with digital specialists who are keen to use their expertise to help organisations drive digital change. You will be surrounded a community who are passionate about public purpose, and you will experience a culture that puts their people first.

We are Public Digital, a digital transformation consultancy and we help global institutions that matter thrive in the internet era. We apply the culture, processes, business models and technologies of the internet era to help organisations build and run excellent services. Working with the leaders doing strategy, and the teams doing delivery, we operate globally, advising large organisations and governments on six continents. 

We’re values-driven and we articulated them in our positions on the Public Digital website . 

Attitude as much as skill, is critically important to us as a team and we look for entrepreneurialism, initiative, kindness, and a willingness to pitch in. Our theory of change is: Digital. Teams. Work - we fundamentally believe transformation is about people, and that change comes from creating great teams and empowering them. 

Role overview 

We work globally and across governments, multilaterals, cultural institutions and the private sector. We are looking for exceptional people with a digital practitioner or consulting background to join our business in one of our 4 teams: UK & Europe, Americas, International and Health

Your experience will support the large, complex organisations we work with to lead in service-oriented approaches, transform services and deliver lasting change. You will build strong, pragmatic working relationships with leaders and their teams, and bring practitioner experience (for example, in product management, delivery, service design or another discipline).

Our client engagements involve coaching and supporting leaders, helping teams to deliver critical services at scale, developing strategies, and longer-term cultural transformation partnerships to improve capability and adapt ways of working in organisations.

We encourage our people to work across different regions and sectors to bring their expertise to different contexts and share approaches that can help organisations facing similar challenges.

What you’ll do with us: 

• Lead large client engagements with accountability for delivery, impact, our teams, and commercials
• Develop strong, proactive and highly trusted relationships with leaders and their teams. You’ll act as an advisor and coach, helping them to shape transformation plans and deliver measurable value
• Mobilise teams for new client engagements and look after the health of our team and performance, including financial management
• Facilitate delivery to a high standard and ensure we’re helping clients achieve their desired outcomes
• Apply your expertise to help organisations dramatically increase their digital maturity, and to deliver better experiences for their users
• Support partners and directors to seek further opportunities for us to provide value to clients, and proactively generate new leads
• Contribute to the life and growth of Public Digital as a values-led business.
• Help to build a positive working environment within your project teams and the business as a whole.

Requirements

We partner with large organisations going through fundamental changes in how they work and deliver services. We help them on their journeys and all that entails, which can be both inspiring and challenging work. At Principal level, it requires high quality judgement about when and how to support clients (drawn from your experience), resilience for the ups and downs of any transformation and empathy with the client and our team.

We’re looking for:

• First-hand experience in service delivery and transformation initiatives in UK government or public interest organisations, including in the private sector.
• Experience leading consulting projects would be beneficial, but not essential.
• Strong understanding of best practice in digital transformation, especially in the UK
• Ability to lead and empower teams to deliver excellent work, from start to finish  
• Experience of working in complex or challenging stakeholder environments, and being comfortable with ambiguity 
• Pragmatic and proactive approach to managing engagements and building relationships, including excellent levels of organisation and delivery management 
• An understanding of how teams work and collaborate, the dynamics of team delivery and how this is nurtured and developed 
• Self-starter; able to scope and lead projects independently 
• Excellent communicator, with an ability to express data and information in a clear, concise manner to a publishable standard, including articulating technical concepts.

Important Note: Although this ad lists out what we look for in candidates, it is likely that we are missing other skills that you may have which could make you a great fit for our business. Research shows that female candidates tend to be less likely to apply to roles where they don’t check all the boxes over other genders. What we are therefore saying is if you feel you tick the majority of the boxes we have listed above, we would welcome an application from you as it never hurts to take a chance and apply!

Benefits

What’s in it for you: 

• Opportunity to grow and progress rapidly within an engaged, supportive environment 
• Be entrepreneurial and contribute to the growth and success of Public Digital 
• Focus on enabling people to deliver high-impact work with leading institutions around the world 
• Focus on learning, development and progression 
• Ability to build and develop your expertise and profile through publishing blog posts, presenting at events and sharing knowledge and experience
• Be empowered to do your best job 
• Home and remote working, flexibility in how you deliver work 
• Buddy system and prioritised mental health 
• Generous holiday allowance of 30 days, plus an additional office closure over the Christmas period.
• Private healthcare cover.
• Additional Flexible benefits.

Do you work in the field of digital, in the broadest sense? We’re looking for both people who consider themselves specialists (such as service designers, delivery managers or software developers) or generalists (playing a key role in making digital change or delivery happen, such as policy makers, strategists or digital team managers).

At Public Digital, we’ll ask you to apply those skills as consultants, but a style of consultancy grounded in lived experience: your lived experience, and the lived experiences of the wider Public Digital team. 

Day-to-day, you’ll be an advisor and coach, you’ll facilitate, convene, write and present. If you have specialist skills, you’ll sometimes apply those skills directly as a practitioner-coach - showing by doing, whilst helping our clients learn from the skills and experience you have.

We think Public Digital offers a unique opportunity - allowing those with digital skills and experience to amplify their impact. We think it’s also a unique way to learn, working closely, day-to-day, within teams with rich and broad experience different to your own. 

You’ll be asked to be part of multidisciplinary, multi-functional consulting teams, helping our varied clients with a diverse set of challenges and opportunities. From helping them deliver impactful digital services, researching complex new domains, or make tangible progress with large-scale organisational reform and culture change.

Join Public Digital, and do the best work of your life. We are interested in speaking with digital specialists who are keen to use their expertise to help organisations drive digital change. You will be surrounded a community who are passionate about public purpose, and you will experience a culture that puts their people first.

We are Public Digital, a digital transformation consultancy and we help global institutions that matter thrive in the internet era. We apply the culture, processes, business models and technologies of the internet era to help organisations build and run excellent services. Working with the leaders doing strategy, and the teams doing delivery, we operate globally, advising large organisations and governments on six continents. 

We’re values-driven and we articulated them in our positions on the Public Digital website . 

Attitude as much as skill, is critically important to us as a team and we look for entrepreneurialism, initiative, kindness, and a willingness to pitch in. Our theory of change is: Digital. Teams. Work - we fundamentally believe transformation is about people, and that change comes from creating great teams and empowering them. 

Role overview 

We work globally and across governments, multilaterals, cultural institutions and the private sector. We are looking for exceptional people with a digital practitioner or consulting background to join our business in one of our 4 teams: UK & Europe, Americas, International and Health

Your experience will support the large, complex organisations we work with to lead in service-oriented approaches, transform services and deliver lasting change. You will build strong, pragmatic working relationships with leaders and their teams, and bring practitioner experience (for example, in product management, delivery, service design or another discipline).

Our client engagements involve coaching and supporting leaders, helping teams to deliver critical services at scale, developing strategies, and longer-term cultural transformation partnerships to improve capability and adapt ways of working in organisations.

We encourage our people to work across different regions and sectors to bring their expertise to different contexts and share approaches that can help organisations facing similar challenges.

What you’ll do with us: 

• Lead large client engagements with accountability for delivery, impact, our teams, and commercials
• Develop strong, proactive and highly trusted relationships with leaders and their teams. You’ll act as an advisor and coach, helping them to shape transformation plans and deliver measurable value
• Mobilise teams for new client engagements and look after the health of our team and performance, including financial management
• Facilitate delivery to a high standard and ensure we’re helping clients achieve their desired outcomes
• Apply your expertise to help organisations dramatically increase their digital maturity, and to deliver better experiences for their users
• Support partners and directors to seek further opportunities for us to provide value to clients, and proactively generate new leads
• Contribute to the life and growth of Public Digital as a values-led business.
• Help to build a positive working environment within your project teams and the business as a whole.

Requirements

We partner with large organisations going through fundamental changes in how they work and deliver services. We help them on their journeys and all that entails, which can be both inspiring and challenging work. At Principal level, it requires high quality judgement about when and how to support clients (drawn from your experience), resilience for the ups and downs of any transformation and empathy with the client and our team.

We’re looking for:

• First-hand experience in service delivery and transformation initiatives in UK government or public interest organisations, including in the private sector.
• Experience leading consulting projects would be beneficial, but not essential.
• Strong understanding of best practice in digital transformation, especially in the UK
• Ability to lead and empower teams to deliver excellent work, from start to finish  
• Experience of working in complex or challenging stakeholder environments, and being comfortable with ambiguity 
• Pragmatic and proactive approach to managing engagements and building relationships, including excellent levels of organisation and delivery management 
• An understanding of how teams work and collaborate, the dynamics of team delivery and how this is nurtured and developed 
• Self-starter; able to scope and lead projects independently 
• Excellent communicator, with an ability to express data and information in a clear, concise manner to a publishable standard, including articulating technical concepts.

Important Note: Although this ad lists out what we look for in candidates, it is likely that we are missing other skills that you may have which could make you a great fit for our business. Research shows that female candidates tend to be less likely to apply to roles where they don’t check all the boxes over other genders. What we are therefore saying is if you feel you tick the majority of the boxes we have listed above, we would welcome an application from you as it never hurts to take a chance and apply!

Benefits

What’s in it for you: 

• Opportunity to grow and progress rapidly within an engaged, supportive environment 
• Be entrepreneurial and contribute to the growth and success of Public Digital 
• Focus on enabling people to deliver high-impact work with leading institutions around the world 
• Focus on learning, development and progression 
• Ability to build and develop your expertise and profile through publishing blog posts, presenting at events and sharing knowledge and experience
• Be empowered to do your best job 
• Home and remote working, flexibility in how you deliver work 
• Buddy system and prioritised mental health 
• Generous holiday allowance of 30 days, plus an additional office closure over the Christmas period.
• Private healthcare cover.
• Additional Flexible benefits.

About Capgemini Invent

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

As a result of increased market demand for our services, we are seeking an experienced senior consulting executive to lead on our Business Transformation advisory programmes with SAP S/4 HANA; with a solid track record of consulting business engagements and E2E business transformation delivery for clients. The role shall sit under our Intelligent Industry practice to enable the growth of this capability, therefore Industry expertise in CPRD, MALS or Utilities sectors is essential.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Growing the Business Transformation advisory with SAP S/4 HANA consulting business
• Create market awareness and launch initiatives that will help create opportunities to develop new markets/clients and adapt our business.
• Understand current and future client needs in the context of market dynamics and apply insights to recommend short and/or long-term value creation for the client.

• Programme Delivery - Lead, develop and engage the Capgemini Invent resources for the client to identify and drive value and bring the best resources to our clients.
• Play a key role as a member of the Intelligent Industry practice.

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

• Proven SAP S/4 HANA programme/project Engagement Management with a focus on business-focused transformation activities
• Extensive SAP implementation experience with SAP business applications and related technologies
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating c.£2m of consulting revenues (Director) /c.4m of consulting revenues (Vice President).

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All 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.

Can’t wait to shape the future? Neither can we.  

At Loughborough University, we are committed to academic excellence, therefore we are investing in our people. We are seeking top research talent from around the world to tackle the most pressing challenges of our time.

Creating Better Futures. Together is our ambitious strategy for the next decade, defining our purpose, values, and aspirations, while recognising our global responsibility.

Our ambitions see us leading on education and student experience, but also as an internationally recognised research-intensive University. Our research focuses on changing the world for the better, addressing society's biggest challenges.

We are committed to building a thriving and inclusive community of high calibre staff from across the globe. Whether you're at the start of your career or looking to take the next step, we offer a great opportunity to further develop and connect with global minds.

Readers in Digital Engineering and Transformation 

We are currently recruiting for Readers with expertise, and an interest in, Digital Engineering and Transformation to join us.  

Building on Loughborough’s leadership in engineering, construction, and design innovation, we’re seeking experts in:  

• Digital Twins: Applications in sport, construction, manufacturing, infrastructure management.

• Digital Construction Methods : Leverage our expertise in BIM, off-site construction, and automation.

• Digital Manufacturing Processes : Build on our strengths in advanced and additive manufacturing, robotics, smart collaborative robotics, and digital validation of products and processes.

• Creative Industries : Strengthen our expertise in immersive experiences, digital performance, interactive media, and extended reality .

What we’re looking for

Successful candidates will have a sustained and continuing record of excellence which has contributed to the furtherance of knowledge in their discipline and is recognised in a well-established and high-profile international reputation. Evidence of significant academic leadership and a PhD, or equivalent research experience, are also essential.   

Full details about what we’re looking for, and how your application will be assessed are available on our academic recruitment website.

Why you should apply

Loughborough University is a great place to work, so much so that we have recently been named as one of the highest-ranking universities for employee experience in the Inspire HE Rankings, showcasing our commitment to our people. We’re proud of our welcoming, supportive, and successful community.

We are consistently ranked among the UK’s top universities, recognised for our outstanding student experience, cutting-edge facilities, and global influence in research and innovation. It’s also why our graduates go on to shape industries, advance knowledge, and create positive change worldwide.

View more about our range of rewards and benefits .  

Application and Assessment

You are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. View the specific application review dates .

Full details about how your application will be assessed are available on our academic recruitment website.

Further Information

Location : It is anticipated that the majority of the academic roles we have available as part of the campaign will be located at our East Midlands campus in Loughborough. Should you be particularly interested in working at our London campus please state this in your application.

Job description : View the generic job description for the position of Reader, which includes an overview of the role and responsibilities.

Informal enquiries : We welcome enquiries for further information about the role. Please contact Professor Malcolm Cook, Dean of the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering by email on . 

Reasonable adjustments: We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact Professor Malcolm Cook, Dean of the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering by email on . 

Security Clearance: Some of our roles may involve working in partnership with third-party organisations that require access to government assets. If this applies to a role that you are interested in, please note that you will require security clearance to the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) level or higher. If you apply for, and are subsequently offered a role, we will let you know if this is required as part of the background checking procedure. Further information can be found on the Government website.

Employment of Ex-Offenders: We are committed to equality of opportunity for all of our colleagues, and we welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. Some of our roles may involve working with children or vulnerable individuals, or may require individuals to assume positions of particular trust. If this applies to a role you are interested in, and you are subsequently offered such a role, we will inform you if a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required as part of the background checking procedure. Further information can be found on the Government website .

Can’t wait to shape the future? Neither can we.  

At Loughborough University, we are committed to academic excellence, therefore we are investing in our people. We are seeking top research talent from around the world to tackle the most pressing challenges of our time.

Creating Better Futures. Together is our ambitious strategy for the next decade, defining our purpose, values, and aspirations, while recognising our global responsibility.

Our ambitions see us leading on education and student experience, but also as an internationally recognised research-intensive University. Our research focuses on changing the world for the better, addressing society's biggest challenges.

We are committed to building a thriving and inclusive community of high calibre staff from across the globe. Whether you're at the start of your career or looking to take the next step, we offer a great opportunity to further develop and connect with global minds.

Professors in Digital Engineering and Transformation 

We are currently recruiting for Professors with expertise, and an interest in, Digital Engineering and Transformation to join us.  

Building on Loughborough’s leadership in engineering, construction, and design innovation, we’re seeking experts in:  

• Digital Twins: Applications in sport, construction, manufacturing, infrastructure management.

• Digital Construction Methods : Leverage our expertise in BIM, off-site construction, and automation.

• Digital Manufacturing Processes : Build on our strengths in advanced and additive manufacturing, robotics, smart collaborative robotics, and digital validation of products and processes.

• Creative Industries : Strengthen our expertise in immersive experiences, digital performance, interactive media, and extended reality .

What we’re looking for

Successful candidates will have a sustained and continuing record of excellence which has contributed to the furtherance of knowledge in their discipline and is recognised in a well-established and high-profile international reputation. Evidence of significant academic leadership and a PhD, or equivalent research experience, are also essential.   

Full details about what we’re looking for, and how your application will be assessed are available on our academic recruitment website.

Why you should apply

Loughborough University is a great place to work, so much so that we have recently been named as one of the highest-ranking universities for employee experience in the Inspire HE Rankings, showcasing our commitment to our people. We’re proud of our welcoming, supportive, and successful community.

We are consistently ranked among the UK’s top universities, recognised for our outstanding student experience, cutting-edge facilities, and global influence in research and innovation. It’s also why our graduates go on to shape industries, advance knowledge, and create positive change worldwide.

View more about our range of rewards and benefits .  

Application and Assessment

You are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. View the specific application review dates .

Full details about how your application will be assessed are available on our academic recruitment website.

Further Information

Location : It is anticipated that the majority of the academic roles we have available as part of the campaign will be located at our East Midlands campus in Loughborough. Should you be particularly interested in working at our London campus please state this in your application.

Job description : View the generic job description for the position of Professor, which includes an overview of the role and responsibilities.

Informal enquiries : We welcome enquiries for further information about the role. Please contact Professor Malcolm Cook, Dean of the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering by email on  

Reasonable adjustments: We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact Professor Malcolm Cook, Dean of the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering by email on

Security Clearance: Some of our roles may involve working in partnership with third-party organisations that require access to government assets. If this applies to a role that you are interested in, please note that you will require security clearance to the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) level or higher. If you apply for, and are subsequently offered a role, we will let you know if this is required as part of the background checking procedure. Further information can be found on the Government website.

Employment of Ex-Offenders: We are committed to equality of opportunity for all of our colleagues, and we welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. Some of our roles may involve working with children or vulnerable individuals, or may require individuals to assume positions of particular trust. If this applies to a role you are interested in, and you are subsequently offered such a role, we will inform you if a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required as part of the background checking procedure. Further information can be found on the Government website .

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

The Digital Operating Model team is part of Capgemini Invent’s growing Business Technology practice.  

We are looking for talented individuals to join the team, and to support our clients transform their digital operating models, from analysis of the AS IS to experience-led recommendations and design.  

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Leverage your extensive experience of shaping digital operating models to work with C-suite and senior leadership teams and help them define their digital vision and case-for-change  

• Work across different sectors and types of organisations, from government departments to global organisations 

• Analyse the impact of new technologies on digital operating models and facilitate discussions with clients, bringing the best of Capgemini capabilities  

• Lead teams delivering digital operating model design engagements, which could include: 

  • Defining operating model design options, and working with the client team to select the “best-fit” option for elaboration 

  • Identifying challenges and opportunities for improvement, using benchmark-data and/or best-practice concepts 

  • Defining multi-year transformation roadmaps, underpinned by evidence-based business cases 

  • Defining organisational changes 

• Help talented individuals grow into experienced operating model practitioners 

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

We are looking for some or all of the following experience and core capabilities from our Senior Manager-level candidates: 

• Evidence of having advised and worked with Executive level clients, and how you influenced key digital operating model decisions, such as central vs local, Business/IT ways interface, CoEs, retained organisation etc. 

• Experience of product-centric operating models 

• Experience of service-led models and the challenges of defining service ownership   

• Experience in leading and delivering digital operating model engagements, covering some or all of the core dimensions (i.e. processes and tooling, organisational structure, data, governance, accountability and decision-making leadership and culture.) 

• Experience working with large Government organisations and/or global private companies 

• Experience in defining transformation roadmaps and supporting business cases  

• Broad knowledge of digital technology industry trends, including but not limited to: AI/GenAI/Agentic AI , Agile at Scale, DevSecOps, journey-to-cloud, low code/no-code solution development, etc.  

• Experience in IT Service Management/ SIAM Transformation is desired but not required 

• Demonstration of core management consulting skills , including storyboarding, comparative and analytical analysis, project and workstream management, written and oral presentation skills, gaining buy-in and the ability to quickly build productive and trusting relationships 

In addition to the capabilities mentioned above, we are looking for an additional set of experiences to help grow our people, sales and internal capabilities: 

• Evidence of managing teams , in complex (e.g. large scale, political, multi-speed) environments  

• Evidence of supporting the growth of junior colleagues and the development of internal capability 

• The ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders 

• Evidence of having successfully delivered positive client outcomes, and developing opportunities for follow-on work ; experience in leading and supporting sales efforts, as well as shaping deals and engagement commercials  

• Evidence of achieving sales targets of at least £1Mio per annum 

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE:

You’ll be free to make your role and your career what you want it to be.  Proactivity and ambition flourish at Capgemini Invent. There are countless opportunities available to propel your development forward: seek out those that suit you, and we will back you all the way.  In summary, we believe the following make this a great place to work: 

• Show how single minds make for better teams:  Work alongside fierce intellects who love to collaborate. 

• Be comfortable outside your comfort zone:  Self-stretchers thrive in our environment. 

• Build momentum in your career: Make your role and your career what you want it to be. 

• Stay true to who you are: Play to your strengths and bring your individuality. 

• Aim for nothing less than leading edge: We thrive on the knowledge that the Digital work we do has real impact. 

• Give your curiosity freedom and focus:  A place where inquisitiveness and entrepreneurial thinking are encouraged. 

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All 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.

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 2024 global revenues of €22.5 billion.