Director - AI Public Sector in Newcastle upon Tyne

About Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe that difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative, and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting‑edge solutions. Join us to drive responsible transformation tailored to our clients’ challenges of today and tomorrow — informed and validated by science and data, superpowered by creativity and design, and underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

Our Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA) Capability Unit is the home of our experts in data and 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 within Capgemini Invent, contributing to leadership both across the EDA capability unit and within our client engagements. As a Director in our team, you will help government organisations understand, prioritise, and safely adopt AI to improve citizen outcomes, enhance operational efficiency, and support policy delivery. You will act as a senior advisor to public sector leaders, shaping strategic AI opportunities and guiding the responsible deployment of AI capabilities across departments and agencies.

• Shaping mission‑aligned AI strategies for government, identifying where AI can meaningfully enhance citizen services, operational efficiency, and policy delivery.
• Partnering with senior officials to prioritise high‑value AI opportunities, building clear value cases that demonstrate measurable public benefit and improved organisational outcomes.
• Ensuring safe, ethical, and responsible AI adoption while guiding public sector organisations through AI‑enabled service redesign, capability uplift, and sustainable transformation.
• Building long‑lasting senior client relationships in the public sector and creating a sustainable business‑development pipeline.
• Selling, leading, and managing large programmes with data strategy and AI transformation at their core.
• Working as part of the Capgemini Invent EDA leadership team and our Public Sector team to grow our AI capability and develop sector‑specific offerings.
• Creating thought leadership and new propositions that reflect Capgemini Invent’s position as a leading AI, data, and analytics consultancy.
• Managing performance and growing teams of data and AI consultants, supporting individual career development, guiding L&D priorities, and driving recruitment.

Role

• Business Development – Leading and contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitches, and client hosting at events.
• Internal Contribution – Supporting campaign development, internal think‑tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events and activities), and offering development.
• Learning & Development – Undertaking training to support your career development and meet evolving skills demands within the company, including certification opportunities.

Your Profile

You will already be a leader within AI consulting and ready to take your career to the next level. You will have experience operating at a similar level, leading data and AI teams within a large consultancy, and you will have established relationships at senior levels across the Public Sector.

Specifically, You Will Bring

• Strong existing relationships with senior clients, focused on areas responsible for data and AI in the Public Sector.
• Experience defining data strategies and shaping AI services and solutions that deliver a client’s vision, integrated across technology and business functions.
• A deep understanding of trends in AI and how these trends 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 and account management across the full sales lifecycle; you will carry a personal sales target of approximately £2m per annum in consulting business.
• Proven ability to succeed 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 both colleagues and clients.
• A versatile and collaborative style; empathetic in approach, confident in content, and focused on outcomes at all levels of the client organisation.
• A passion for shaping, motivating, and delivering AI across the Public Sector.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

As a Director within our EDA practice, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your own network and shape your leadership career path through access to some of the UK’s leading data and AI professionals. Through our longstanding client relationships and our impactful thought leadership on Data & AI driven business transformation, Capgemini Invent has developed expertise and market presence that is renowned across the AI, Data Science and Analytics domain. We work with a wide variety of organisations across multiple sectors and the ability to exploit our strategy, design and delivery capability means we can lead on their biggest data and AI strategy & transformation programmes. Capgemini Invent has continued to focus on growth into 2025, and we have invested heavily in building our already strong EDA practice through targeted recruitment, training and access to AI platforms and tooling. As a Director in our team, you will be part of this growth journey and you will be given the foundations to take your career to the next level as a senior leader in Capgemini Invent. Our people are what make us special, and the connections you make at Capgemini Invent in your client and internal engagements will almost certainly stay with you for a very long time.

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 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. 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 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.

Disability Confident Employer

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.