Forward Deployed Manager - ED&A

Capgemini Invent; Diegem; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or mobility budget

Fringe benefits

Flexible working and teleworking

Job summary

Capgemini Invent’s Data & AI team is seeking a Forward Deployed Manager to bridge AI ambition and business value at client sites. You will embed with client teams, translating needs into prototypes, validating concepts, and delivering measurable outcomes.

You’ll design AI-enabled solutions using Claude, n8n, and the Microsoft ecosystem, balancing speed, cost, and quality. Fluency in English and Dutch or French is required, with strong collaboration across business and tech stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience across general/advisory roles.
• Experience advising senior client stakeholders and building trust.
• Fluency in English and Dutch or French.
• Hands-on background as a software/AI engineer or technical delivery professional.

Responsibilities

• Translate high-value business challenges into working prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Act as technical counterpart to client stakeholders, delivering tangible outcomes.
• Design, build, and deploy AI-enabled solutions (LLM apps, automations, agentic workflows).
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between scope, speed, cost, and maintainability to maximise delivery impact.
• Apply a product mindset: define success metrics, gather feedback, iterate solutions.
• Ensure solutions are documented, supportable, and ready for production handover to IT.
• Support client adoption and identify reusable patterns for scale across engagements.
• Collaborate with Industry Leads to turn delivery into stronger offerings and reusable assets.

Skills

Strong communication

Client relationships

Delivery decisions

English fluency

Dutch/French language

Tools

Claude

n8n

Microsoft ecosystem

Job description

Are you passionate about turning business needs into transformative technology? Are you energised by working side-by-side with client teams to turn those needs into working prototypes, collect feedback, and prove value? If so, join Capgemini Invent’s Data & AI team as a Forward Deployed Manager. This role is at the heart of our mission to bridge the gap between AI ambition and tangible business impact. Many organisations have AI ambition. Fewer have a clear path to measurable impact. Capgemini Invent, the strategy, consulting, and transformation brand of Capgemini, helps company leaders find that path. More than 1,000 strategists, data scientists, designers, and technologists globally define where AI will change a business and build the roadmap to get there, with data and AI at the core of every strategy. Capgemini is a leader in enterprise AI, with strong relationships across the wider AI ecosystem. We support clients end to end, from AI strategy to enterprise-scale deployment, bringing together consulting, data, engineering, operations, and change management. Beyond off-the-shelf tools, we build tailored AI layers on top of our clients’ existing systems, so that AI works within their real processes, data, and controls. As a Forward Deployed Manager, you will be the person who makes that real on the client’s side. YOUR ROLE As a Forward Deployed Manager, you operate at the intersection of engineering, consulting, and delivery. You embed directly with client teams, taking AI and automation solutions from early validation to stable, adopted systems, often as part of a broader AI transformation programme. You choose the right technology for each client based on their needs, trust requirements, and business impact, drawing on tools such as Claude, n8n, and the Microsoft ecosystem. What matters most is taking an idea from prototype to a working solution that is integrated into real enterprise environments and adopted in day-to-day operations. Your role includes:.

• Translating high-value business challenges into working prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Acting as the technical counterpart to client stakeholders, building trust through tangible outcomes.
• Designing and building AI-enabled and automated solutions (e.g. agentic workflows, decision-support tools, LLM applications) using tools such as Claude, n8n, and other low-code/no-code platforms.
• Making pragmatic trade-offs between scope, speed, cost, and maintainability to maximise delivery impact.
• Applying a product mindset by defining success metrics, gathering feedback, and iterating solutions.
• Ensuring solutions are documented, supportable, and ready for production handover to IT.
• Supporting client adoption and identifying reusable patterns that can be scaled across engagements.
• Collaborating with Industry Leads and internal experts to turn delivery experience into stronger offerings and reusable assets across the firm

YOUR PROFILE We are looking for managers with 3-5 years of experience across several of the following: General and advisory

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience advising senior client stakeholders and building lasting client relationships grounded in trust, credibility, and delivered outcomes.
• Willingness to contribute beyond individual engagements and support broader consulting initiatives.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound delivery decisions.
• Ownership mindset and a bias for action.
• Fluency in English and Dutch or French.

Technical

• Strong hands-on experience as a software engineer, AI engineer, or technical delivery professional, including client-facing engagements.
• Proven ability to design, build, and deploy solutions from concept through to business adoption.
• Practical experience building AI-enabled solutions (e.g. LLM applications, automations, agentic workflows) using tools such as Claude, n8n, or the Microsoft ecosystem.

If you're excited by the role and believe you can make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. What You’ll Love About Working Here At Capgemini, we actively embody our motto: 'Make it real':

• A challenging role within a leading consulting company
• An attractive salary package, including a company car or mobility budget and fringe benefits
• A clear career path with ample growth potential in a diverse team
• The opportunity to grow and shape the teams you lead
• Autonomy to shape your growth path and work on initiatives that match your interests
• Training and development, including certifications from our partner network
• Flexible working: teleworking, flexible hours, and opportunities to work abroad
• Personalised mentoring from a dedicated counsellor
• A collaborative atmosphere with team events and after-work get-togethers