Director - Data Science Leader

4 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Capgemini Invent Full time
About the Role

As a Director in our Analytics & AI practice, you will be responsible for driving new business and selling data science opportunities in excess of £2m per year. You will play a leadership role across our AI, data science, and analytics capabilities, shaping our strategy, defining our ambition, and developing junior members of the team.

The Work

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses, and lives. It's really rewarding. And it's also really varied. You'll potentially work on a huge variety of projects, so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Why This Role?

You want to be part of a rapidly growing team delivering some of the most exciting AI, Data Science, and Analytics work across both the Private Sector and the Public Sector.

You want to accelerate your own career and take on a wide range of responsibilities that include:

  • Working as part of the Capgemini Invent A&AI leadership team to grow our practice and develop our offers
  • Inspiring our clients on exploiting the potential of AI, data science, and analytics in their businesses
  • Helping clients embed data science solutions and use insight to optimise and automate business decision making at scale
  • Selling, leading, and managing large delivery programmes with data science at the core
  • 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.
We're Looking for Someone with:

You will already be a leader within the field of data science, and you want to take your career to the next level. You will likely have experience 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 Executives of large organisations in the UK, focussed on the areas responsible for AI, Data Science, and Analytics
  • Experience of 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 the AI, data science, or analytics market and how these are changing
  • Experience in the application of analytical techniques, for example, customer analytics, supply chain optimisation, intelligent automation, machine learning, or deep learning
  • Experience in the uptake and adoption of cloud services in the deployment of data and analytics services; experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Experience storytelling and insight generation to inform and influence decision making across client organisations

You will also require:

  • Strong management consulting experience with proven success in AI, Data Science, or Analytics
  • A proven track record in new business development/account management in large 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.
About Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, 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. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to 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.

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you'll get to know the customer's needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions, and quickly solve problems. It'll help you discover unexpected answers together.

There's an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you'll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all our teams.

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.

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc, you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.

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