Director - AI Transformation: Future Utility

Capgemini Invent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent seeks a Director for its Energy Transition & Utilities practice, leading AI-enabled transformation engagements and shaping senior client relationships. You will drive growth, define AI strategies and operating models, and build Centres of Excellence for scalable adoption.

You will combine Energy & Utilities expertise with strong consulting and digital leadership to guide clients through future operating models and value realization from AI at scale.

Qualifications

• Significant consulting or senior industry leadership experience in Energy Transition & Utilities.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale business, digital and AI-enabled transformations.
• Experience shaping and delivering opportunities with senior client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead major AI-enabled transformation programmes and strategic advisory engagements.
• Own senior client relationships and drive growth across Energy & Utilities.
• Develop market-leading propositions and thought leadership for AI-enabled transformation.

Skills

AI strategy

Executive stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

Business development

Job description

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:

As part of the significant growth in demand across our Energy Transition & Utilities practice, we are seeking an experienced Director to join our highly talented team, working on the pursuit and delivery of major advisory, consulting and transformation services across our sector.

Our clients within Energy Transition & Utilities include organisations across Energy Networks, Energy Retail, Energy Markets, Water and Nuclear.

Driven by unprecedented investment in digital transformation, AI and operational modernisation, our clients are seeking support to move beyond experimentation and establish AI as a core capability across their organisations. Our strong market position, deep sector expertise, transformation credentials and technology partnerships place Capgemini in a unique position to lead this change.

This role is designed to further expand and strengthen our position as a market leader in AI‑enabled business transformation.

As a Director within Capgemini Invent's Energy Transition & Utilities team, you will help set the direction, drive growth, own senior client relationships, lead major transformation engagements and build the next generation of AI‑enabled consulting capabilities.

You will combine deep Energy & Utilities expertise with strong consulting, transformation and digital leadership skills, helping clients define their future operating models and realise value from AI at scale.

Business Development

• Leading and contributing to major opportunities, proposals and pursuits across AI, digital and business transformation.
• Originating and shaping consulting engagements through existing and new client relationships.
• Building market‑leading propositions, offerings and thought leadership.
• Developing strategic relationships with technology partners and ecosystem providers.
• Supporting account growth and expansion across Energy & Utilities clients.

Project Delivery

• Leading major AI‑enabled transformation programmes and strategic advisory engagements.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders across business, technology and operations functions.#
• Defining AI strategies, operating models, roadmaps and business cases.
• Establishing AI Centres of Excellence, governance models and scaled adoption approaches.
• Supporting clients through the design and implementation of digital, data and AI‑enabled transformation.

Internal Contribution

• Leading capability development across AI Consulting, Business Transformation and Future Utility propositions.
• Contributing to practice operations, recruitment, campaign development and proposition creation.
• Developing reusable assets, accelerators and intellectual property.
• Supporting cross‑practice collaboration across Invent and the wider Capgemini Group.

Learning & Development

• Supporting the development of consulting, AI and leadership capabilities across the practice.
• Coaching and mentoring future leaders.
• Building capability communities and supporting talent development initiatives.
• Contributing to internal learning pathways and certification programmes.

Thought Leadership

• Developing market‑facing points of view and industry insights.
• Representing Capgemini at conferences, client events and industry forums.
• Building Capgemini's reputation as a leader in AI‑enabled transformation within Energy & Utilities.
• Supporting publications, whitepapers and sector research.

Your profile:

We'd love to meet someone with:

• Significant experience gained within Consulting and/or Energy & Utilities, including deep expertise across one or more of Energy Networks, Water, Energy Retail or Asset & Capital Delivery.
• Exceptional consulting skills, demonstrated through experience within a major consulting firm and/or senior industry leadership roles.
• Proven experience shaping and delivering large‑scale business, digital and AI‑enabled transformation programmes.
• Experience building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
• Experience developing propositions, services and market offerings.
• A track record of building and leading high‑performing consulting teams.
• Deep understanding of the opportunities and risks associated with AI adoption within regulated industries.
• An entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for growth, innovation and transformation.
• Commitment to developing people and building future consulting leaders.

You will bring subject matter experience, expertise and intellectual capital across a broad range of advisory, consulting and transformation services, which may include all or some of:

• AI strategy, adoption and transformation.
• AI operating models, governance and centres of excellence.
• Business, digital and operating model transformation.
• Asset, capital and operations performance improvement.
• Future workforce and organisational change.
• Design and deployment of AI‑enabled products, services and solutions.
• Emerging technologies including generative AI, agentic AI, automation, digital twins, IoT and advanced analytics.

What you'll love about working here:

At the forefront of our work to help solve some of the biggest challenges in the UK and beyond, you'll be working with like‑minded individuals as part of our leadership team.

We thrive on cooperation rather than competition. We're not perfect, we're constantly striving to improve the way we work together as an organisation, and the way we deliver for our clients.

Great team players thrive with Capgemini, and we really do live our values, including Teamwork, Honesty, Boldness and Entrepreneurship. We can promise a collegiate working environment, challenge from supportive colleagues and the space to get the future you want.

At Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to make 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.

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 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.

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 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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