AI Strategist - Senior Consultant

Capgemini Invent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking an experienced AI Strategy leader in the UK to drive growth and transformation across client enterprises. You will shape AI opportunities, build practical strategies, and oversee delivery from discovery to execution.

Based in Manchester or other UK offices, you will collaborate with senior clients and cross‑functional teams, embedding responsible AI practices and governance while scaling AI capabilities across functions.

Qualifications

• As part of the Data & AI Strategy Team, you’ll shape the future of AI consulting through strategic thinking, technology understanding, and delivery experience.
• You’ll help organisations unlock AI value by combining business and technology insights and supporting implementation to drive outcomes.
• Role focuses on strategy through to execution and enterprise‑wide transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements from strategy through to execution.
• Define AI opportunities and practical strategies aligned to business goals.
• Support implementation to drive real outcomes and measurable impact.
• Contribute to the growth of Capgemini Invent’s AI Strategy practice.

Skills

Growth mindset & AI curiosity

Strategic problem solving

Communication & stakeholder engagement

Data & AI expertise

AI strategy & delivery experience

Capability building & responsible AI

GenAI & agentic systems

Workshop design & facilitation

Executive storytelling

Delivery of AI strategies & prototypes

Job description

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.

Join our AI Strategy team and be part of the future of AI consulting. We are redefining how organisations adopt and scale AI by embedding Generative AI, agentic systems, and copilots into every aspect of how they operate, compete, and create value.

We are looking for experienced Strategy and AI leaders with strong commercial acumen, individuals who understand AI technologies and can translate them into enterprise‑wide transformation. You will lead engagements from strategy through to execution, enabling the shift toward AI‑enabled enterprises whilst contributing to the growth of our AI Strategy practice.

YOUR ROLE

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and delivery, perfect for someone who thrives on solving complex problems. From Agentic AI in risk governance, to AI sovereignty in enterprise architecture, to enabling the AI‑empowered workforce of tomorrow, you’ll be working at the cutting edge of what’s next.

We REDEFINE strategy – You will work with clients to define their ambition for AI, identify high‑impact use cases and design prioritisation frameworks that guide investment to ensure AI initiatives are aligned with business goals and built for scale.

We ENABLE business transformation with AI – You will help clients disrupt their business model to embed AI and automation into core business processes to unlock new capabilities, drive efficiency, and deliver measurable impact.

We BUILD scalable AI capability - You will help organisations develop and scale AI across functions, embedding the right skills, tools, governance and culture to enable sustainable adoption. From operating models to talent strategy, we ensure AI becomes a core part of how the business operates.

We DRIVE responsible AI adoption - You will help organisations design and implement robust frameworks to safely and responsibly deploy, monitor and assure AI. We ensure AI is used transparently, securely, and inline with core business values.

We SUPERCHARGE delivery - We leverage the power of AI to accelerate delivery and drive innovation for our clients and our business. As part of this role you will be encouraged to experiment with new AI and automation technologies to build proof of concepts, augment research and automate tasks.

Role

As part of your role alongside client work you will 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

As a member of the Data & AI Strategy Team, you’ll be part of shaping the future of AI consulting. You’ll help organisations unlock value from AI by combining strategic thinking, technology understanding, and delivery experience. Working at the intersection of business and technology, you’ll define AI opportunities, shape practical strategies, and support implementation to drive real outcomes.

Key Skills

Growth mindset & AI curiosity – Actively explore emerging technologies (especially GenAI and agentic systems) and apply them to solve real business challenges.

Strategic problem solving – Structure complex, ambiguous problems and develop clear, actionable AI strategies and roadmaps aligned to business goals.

Communication & stakeholder engagement – Confident working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex concepts into clear, compelling narratives for senior audiences.

Data & AI expertise – Strong understanding of data ecosystems and AI capabilities (e.g. ML, GenAI, analytics), with the ability to connect technology to tangible business value.

AI strategy & delivery experience – Experience across the lifecycle from discovery and use case definition through to delivery and implementation support.

Capability building & responsible AI – Experience developing AI capabilities (operating models, readiness, training) alongside awareness of AI ethics, risk, and governance.

Technology & Delivery Experience

Understanding of GenAI, LLMs, and agentic systems, and their practical application

Workshop design and facilitation to drive ideation and alignment

Strong presentation, storytelling, and executive communication skills

Delivery of high‑quality outputs (e.g. strategies, business cases, prototypes)

Awareness of end‑to‑end delivery, linking strategy through to execution

Senior Consultants

Bring proven experience delivering AI strategy and transformation projects, with the ability to own workstreams, engage clients independently, and bridge strategy and delivery to drive measurable outcomes.

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

Our team drives business transformation by designing the organisations of the future, delivering end‑to‑end blueprint for AI‑enabled enterprises. We are at the cutting edge of the 4th industrial revolution and are uniquely placed to leverage the broad, market‑leading capabilities of Capgemini Group.

We work across a wide range of industries, delivering outcomes that make a real impact on society. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, innovate and shape your own career path, supported by mentoring from our leading experts in data and AI.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK” accolade for 5 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 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 At Cap 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.

Capgemini Is Proud To Be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) Under The UK Government’s Disability Confident Scheme. As Part Of Our Commitment To Inclusive Recruitment, We Will Offer An Interview To All Candidates Who Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

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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 an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations 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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