Director - Data & AI (Telecoms & Media Sector)

Capgemini Invent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Mental Health Champions

Variable remuneration package

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Director in the Data & AI sector to manage teams, build client relationships, and drive business development within the Telecoms & Media sector. This high-profile role involves contributing to thought leadership and managing significant consulting opportunities. Applicants should possess experience leading data and AI teams, strong management consulting skills, and a proven track record in new business development. Flexible working arrangements are available, and contribution to employee wellbeing is emphasized.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience within Data & AI consulting at a large consultancy.
• Strong relationships in the Telecoms & Media sector.
• Experience defining data strategies and shaping AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Grow data and AI capability within Telecoms & Media sector.
• Manage teams of data & AI consultants for career growth.
• Build senior client relationships and develop business pipeline.
• Lead and manage large data and AI delivery programmes.

Skills

Data & AI consulting experience

Senior client relationship management

Business development

Management consulting

Understanding of AI trends

Job description

Your Role

Our Enterprise Data Analytics (EDA) Capability Unit is the home of our experts in data & AI strategy, innovation, transformation and insights; 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 EDA capability unit and across our client engagements. As a Director in our team, you will be responsible for new business focused on clients in the telecoms & media sector 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 data, insights and AI including data management, business intelligence, data science and AI innovation.

Key expectations from this role include:

• Working as part of the Capgemini Invent EDA leadership team and our Telecoms & Media Sector team to grow our data and AI capability and develop our sector‑specific offers
• Managing the performance and growing teams of data & AI consultants who work cross‑sector, supporting individuals’ career growth, guiding L&D priorities and driving recruitment
• Building long‑lasting senior client relationships in the Telecoms & Media sector and creating a sustainable business development pipeline
• Inspiring our clients on innovating with AI and getting value from their data
• Helping our clients to design their AI strategies and adopt a robust approach to data management
• 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

Business Development & Learning

As part of your role you will 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 Data & AI 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 the Telecoms & Media sector.

Specifically, you will bring:

• Good existing relationships with Senior Clients, focussed on the areas responsible for data & AI in the Telecoms & Media sector
• 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

You will also require:

• Strong management consulting experience with proven success across data and AI
• 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 focused on outcomes at all levels in the client organisation.
• A passion to shape, motivate and deliver AI, Data Science and Analytics work

Employee Benefits

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.

Whilst you will have Manchester as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as this role 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 on grade and on company and personal performance.

EEO Statement

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.