Workplace AI Managing Consultant

Capgemini; Glasgow, London, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a strategic leader to drive AI initiatives in the workplace. The ideal candidate will lead complex projects, inspire teams, and develop client relationships, ensuring successful AI adoption and transformation. This role emphasizes collaboration, ethical AI practices, and continuous improvement, offering flexibility and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health & well-being communities

Mental Health Champions

Regular promotion cycles

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of consulting experience in a major consulting firm.
• Relevant technology certifications and experience with AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex AI projects, ensuring delivery excellence.
• Help clients deploy AI solutions to meet business needs.
• Inspire and coach team members towards personal growth.

Skills

Collaboration

Coaching

Communication

Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Education

Professional degree

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Amazon Q

Job description

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Setting a strategic vision for clientsinterested in AI usage in the workplace, developing offers that align with Group, and other Capgemini capabilities closely related to AI (i.e. security, data, automation, sustainability).
• Leading complex projects or programmes. Embodying accountability for delivery excellence, escalating and de-risking complex situations specific to AI project delivery.
• Helping to develop and grow a client portfolioto generate new opportunities and revenues for Capgemini, showing an ability to understand commercial frameworks and processes.
• Inspiring, building and coaching your team, leading by example towards personal growth and to contribute to shaping a positive culture, sustaining high performance.

As part of your role, you will also be expected to drive the following activities:

Client Advisory and Delivery

• Help clients realise their vision of an empowered digital workplace using AI technologies, such as Microsoft Copilot or Amazon Q.
• Coach clients through persona-driven change campaigns, to drive adoption from pilots all the way through scaling programmes, promoting a safe, secure and fair use of AI.
• Lead project planning and delivery using agile methodologies, managing risks, and delivering quality oversight throughout the lifecycle.
• Help clients identify, assess, and deploy AI-based solutions to fulfil business requirements at enterprise-level, whilst tracking value and assessing benefits realised.
• Communicate business value through design and delivery artifacts, driving alignment of senior business and technical leaders on AI technology benefits, showing mastery in presentation and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate passion for client success, striving for excellence, and proactively managing stakeholder relationships to enhance collaboration.

Capability Development

• Inspire clients with thought-leadership on AI trends for the workplace and opportunities to drive their investments towards transformative work that will unlock new value in their organisation, led by ethical principles.
• Contribute to inventing new frameworks to map benefits and metrics of using AI technology to business outcomes and metrics, to continuously support the AI business case.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate your team’s upskilling in AI, investing in new training and certifications to keep up with technology advancements.
• Stay informed of the competitive technology landscape and assess the feasibility of deploying Generative AI solutions such as Microsoft Copilot.
• Contribute to defining governance and standards for scaling AI-led technology across the different legal and compliance boundaries of global organisations.

Business Development

• Support in responding to bids, RFPs, RFIs, RFSs and proposal requests, embedding the required governance to meet deadline and quality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Capgemini to understand client business needs and provide expert solutions that shape new deals.
• Drive solution development, including providing input into staffing, skill requirements, and functional ideation throughout the client delivery lifecycle.

YOUR PROFILE

• Highly collaborative, able to expand your network within Capgemini to promote digital workplace offering whilst advocating for other team’s capabilities to your clients.
• Passion for continuous learning and a willingness to develop others around you, both clients and Capgemini.
• Drive performance and continuous improvement within the organisation, inspiring and celebrating a culture of boldness.

Leadership

• Ability to build, grow and lead cross-functional teams, to coach direct and indirect reports, drive cohesion and contribute to the wellbeing of the people working for you.
• Ease engaging with senior stakeholders to influence their investment decision in workplace technologies and champion products to be deployed.
• Upholding strong ethical values, always making a conscious decision for ‘doing the right thing’ when doing business or managing your team.

Business and Methods

• Ability to shape and convey exciting storytelling to our clients around our Workplace AI offer and business value opportunities.
• Track record of overseeing and delivering digital transformation projects, delivering tangible results and benefits for clients.
• Some experience in securing, tracking, growing consulting work sales pipeline across multiple accounts and markets through previous experience and industry contacts / network.
• Proven experience in applying strategy and innovation approaches to solve complex, analytical, and technical business problems.

Technical

• Some technical understanding of AI solutions development methodologies, trends, risks and mitigation strategies, to build credibility with senior client stakeholders.
• Understanding of ethical considerations of artificial intelligence, how it can be impacted by human bias, and techniques to resolve this.

Certification and Experience

• Professional degree (Batchelors-level or above).
• Relevant technology certifications (e.g., Microsoft) and experience with AI and Generative AI solutions (e.g., Microsoft Copilot).
• UK government security clearance (BPSS or SC) preferred.
• Currently working in a major consulting firm, with at least 4 years of consulting experience.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKNG HERE:

We are delighted to be in thetop 10 for the ‘Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK 2025’.Received this accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page.

Flexibility to Work Your Way

You will have thefreedom to structure your dayin the way it works best for you. We prioritise our output more than the number of hours we work. Hence, one of our key values is‘Freedom’.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Ourhybrid-first way of workingmeans 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.

You’d be joining an organisation which puts yourwellbeing at the top of its prioritywith over varioushealth & well-being communitiesandmonthly surveys. 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 havetrained ‘Mental Health Champions’across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will have thefreedom to express your ideasto your colleagues who are attentive to your ideas and viewpoints. This is encouraged as that’s what makes us an innovative workplace. Hence, one of our key values is‘Boldness’.

Regular Promotion Cycles

Furthermore, we truly believe in the importance of recognising people for their great work, which is why we have regular promotion cycles to compensate people.

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 andActive 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 eligibleto request flexible working arrangements.

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 organisations 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 of350,000 team membersin more than50 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 fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of€22 billion.

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