Banking Transformation Director - AI & Data

NTT DATA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Job summary

NTT DATA UK & Ireland is seeking a Banking Consulting Director to originate and lead transformative engagements across the UK banking market. This hybrid leadership role focuses on C-suite advisory, operating model redesign, and AI-enabled banking strategies.

You will cultivate long-term client relationships, drive revenue growth, and lead cross-disciplinary delivery teams to deliver measurable outcomes and sustainable profitability.

Qualifications

• Significant experience (typically 18+ years, or a demonstrated equivalent track record) in management consulting, business consulting, or transformation advisory within the Banking sector.
• Proven origination and account growth with Tier‑1 UK banks - opening relationships and converting them to revenue, not only delivering work.
• Credibility advising C‑suite stakeholders on business and technology transformation.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives across retail, commercial, corporate, digital, and challenger banks.
• Lead strategic discussions on operating model redesign, digital and payments transformation, customer experience, regulatory change, and the practical, governed use of data and AI.
• Facilitate executive workshops and strategic planning sessions that move clients from agenda-setting to decision and action.
• Build and sustain long‑term executive relationships that anchor key client accounts.
• Originate and convert a pipeline of strategic consulting opportunities, opening new relationships, not only delivering scoped work.
• Develop and execute sector growth strategies aligned to the Banking Consulting practice objectives.
• Lead pursuits end-to-end: qualification, proposition shaping, proposal development, and executive close.
• Expand existing accounts into multi‑year transformation partnerships and identify new market opportunities.
• Deliver against an annual portfolio target in consulting revenue, with accountability for margin and pipeline health.
• Ensure successful delivery across the portfolio: quality, client outcomes, commercial performance, and risk management.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning strategy, business, technology, data, and transformation specialists.
• Guide clients through end-to-end journeys, from strategy and design through implementation and value realization.
• Develop differentiated propositions, methodologies, frameworks, and IP - with a deliberate edge in AI-enabled banking.
• Support recruitment, capability development, and mentoring of consulting talent, raising the bar on delivery quality.

Skills

Executive engagement

Origination

Relationship management

Strategic thinking

Commercial acumen

Consultative selling

Team leadership

Talent development

Thought leadership

Practice building

Complex stakeholder management

Job description

NTT DATA UK & Ireland is seeking a Banking Consulting Director to originate and lead transformative engagements across the UK banking market. This hybrid leadership role focuses on C-suite advisory, operating model redesign, and AI-enabled banking strategies.

You will cultivate long-term client relationships, drive revenue growth, and lead cross-disciplinary delivery teams to deliver measurable outcomes and sustainable profitability.