Director AI Governance

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm in Manchester seeks an experienced Director in AI Governance & Trust to lead client relationships and manage significant business development efforts. The position involves driving AI strategy and governance frameworks while coaching junior consultants. The ideal candidate has a strong background in consulting with proven leadership abilities and a track record of achieving business targets, particularly in AI and Data Science. Flexible working arrangements and a commitment to diversity are emphasized in the workplace culture.

Benefits

Flexible benefits options

Wellbeing support programs

Hybrid working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in AI Governance & Trust consulting.
• Strong consulting experience in AI, Data Science or Analytics.
• Track record in business development with a personal sales target of £2m per annum.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth in AI Governance & Trust capabilities.
• Manage teams of data & AI consultants.
• Build client relationships for sustainable development.
• Inspire safe AI innovation with governance controls.
• Lead and manage delivery programmes in data and AI.

Skills

Relationship management with senior clients

Defining data strategies

Understanding AI trends

Sales lifecycle management

Management consulting experience

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&A) 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 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&A 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 your 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.

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.

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.

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.