Director AI Governance

Capgemini Invent; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible benefits

Disability inclusive recruitment

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking a Director for AI Governance & Trust to drive leadership across the Analytics & AI capability and client engagements. You will sell consulting opportunities in excess of £2m per year, set strategic direction, coach junior team members, and build long-lasting relationships with senior clients across sectors.

You will shape AI strategies, ensure governance frameworks, and lead large data & AI delivery programs, while contributing to thought leadership and

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in AI Governance & Trust consulting.
• Proven ability to lead data & AI teams within a large consultancy.
• Track record of new business development with multi-million pound targets.
• Strong senior client relationships and cross-sector engagement.
• Experience working in a matrixed organization and selling consulting solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI Governance & Trust initiatives and expand capability offerings.
• Manage and grow data & AI consultants across sectors, guiding career development and recruitment.
• Build and sustain senior client relationships and develop a robust pipeline.
• Drive thought leadership and create new propositions reflecting Capgemini Invent’s leadership in AI.

Skills

AI Governance

Leadership

Business Development

Relationship Management

Consulting

Job description

Capgemini Invent: Why Join us?

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

Our Analytics & AI (A&AI) Capability Unit is the home of our experts in data & AI strategy, innovation, transformation and enablement; supporting clients in using advanced data, analytics and AI solutions to solve complex business problems.

This is a high profile role in Capgemini Invent, contributing to leadership across both across the Analytics & AI capability unit and across our client engagements. As a Director in our team, you will be responsible for new business focused on clients in all sectors and selling consulting opportunities in excess of £2m per year. You will be expected to contribute to thought leadership and team management activities across multiple capability areas but with a focus on AI Governance and Trust including regulation, ethics, risk management, controls and compliance.

In this role, you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team. Key expectations from this role include:

• Working as part of the Capgemini Invent A&AI leadership team to grow our AI Governance & Trust capability and develop our AI regulation, ethics and compliance offers
• Managing the performance and grow teams of data & AI consultants with AI Governance expertise who work cross-sector, supporting individuals’ career growth, guiding L&D priorities and driving recruitment
• Building long-lasting senior client relationships and creating a sustainable business development pipeline
• Inspiring our clients on innovating with AI safely with the right governance and controls in place
• Helping our clients to design their AI strategies and adopt robust AI governance frameworks
• Selling, leading, and managing large delivery programmes with data and AI at the centre
• Creating thought leadership and new propositions that reflect Capgemini Invent’s position as a leading AI, data science and analytics consultancy

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

You will already be a leader within AI Governance & Trust consulting and you want to take your career to the next level. You will have experience at a similar level leading data and AI teams within a large consultancy, and you will have relationships at senior levels in multiple client organisations.

Specifically, you will bring:

• Good existing relationships with Senior Clients, focussed on the areas responsible for AI Governance & Trust
• Experience of defining data strategies and shaping the AI or data science services and solutions that deliver the client’s vision, integrated across technology and business functions
• A deep understanding of trends in AI and how these are impacting our clients in terms of Governance & Trust

You will also require:

• Strong management consulting experience with proven success in AI, Data Science or Analytics and Governance, Regulation and Compliance
• A proven track record in new business development / account management in clients across the full sales lifecycle; you will have a personal sales target of circa £2m per annum of consulting business.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Credibility and personal impact; you will be respected by colleagues and clients
• Versatility and collaborative in style, empathetic in nature, confident in content and focussed on outcomes at all levels in the client organisation.
• A passion to shape, motivate and deliver AI, Data Science and Analytics work

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion 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.

Disability Inclusive Recruitment

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.