Director & Data & AI (Telecoms & Media Sector)

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - GBP 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a Director of Data & AI to drive transformation in the Telecoms & Media sector. You will manage large business opportunities, lead a team of consultants, and foster client relationships. This role requires strong management consulting experience with a focus on data strategy, AI innovation, and a proven ability to develop business. The position offers a flexible working environment and emphasizes personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing data and AI teams.
• Strong ability to develop client relationships in Telecoms & Media.
• Experience in selling consulting business of circa £2m annually.

Responsibilities

• Drive the business strategy for data and AI.
• Grow teams of data & AI consultants.
• Manage senior client relationships to develop business.

Skills

Relationship management with Senior Clients

Data strategy definition

Understanding of AI trends

Management consulting experience

New business development

Cross-functional team leadership

Education

Experience leading data and AI teams in consultancy

Job description

Director - Data & AI (Telecoms & Media Sector)

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend 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 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 across 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.

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 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 grow 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 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

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, focused 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

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

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 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.

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 Manchester 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.

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.

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