Director - Data Science Leader

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to drive innovation and transformation to achieve their goals.

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

About Capgemini Invent

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast-evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

Our brand promise "Get The Future You Want" reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company's commitment to inclusion and sustainability.

An important aspect of 'Get the Future You Want' is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognize that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success. When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

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Our Analytics & AI (A&AI) practice is a cornerstone of Capgemini Invent's digital capability. Together with our research partner MIT, we have presented our views on the market challenges and how organizations can transform themselves using the power of digital.

The companies that compete most successfully are those who have data as an integral part of their business model. This allows them to use analytics to identify customer needs, and to use AI to optimize and automate the speed and quality of their decision making. However, constant change means even the most mature organization needs to focus on innovation and optimization to realize the opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence & Automation.

In the A&AI team, we are Capgemini specialist business analytics and strategic modeling capability. We deliver analytical solutions and advisory services to a wide range of sectors and clients, using our industry knowledge and data & analytics to help our clients realize the emerging possibilities of analytics AI and automation.

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An overview of the role:

As a Director in our Analytics & AI practice, you will be responsible for 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 optimize 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'd love to meet 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 organizations.

Specifically, you will bring:

• Good existing relationships with Senior Executives of large organizations in the UK, focused 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 optimization, 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 organizations

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 organization 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 organization.

Why Capgemini is unique

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 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 organization. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organizational 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.

Collaboration and Innovation:

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.

Learning and development:

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.

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.

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.