Senior Manager/Director - Government, AI

About the company: the company is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Our Government practice is looking for experienced Senior Managers and Directors to join our growing AI team, working across government departments and public sector organisations – with Health as one of our core areas of focus. We are looking for a high-agency leader who champions practical, real-world AI adoption and can translate emerging AI capabilities into impactful client outcomes and sustainable business growth. You will help senior leaders develop and embed enterprise-scale AI strategies, shape new operating models, reimagine public services, and build lasting organisational capability.

What you will be doing:

• AI Transformation Leadership: Lead complex AI transformation programmes across government departments and public sector organisations, helping clients move from isolated experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption and sustainable transformation.
• Strategic Client Advisory: Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor on AI adoption, operating model transformation, governance and organisational change.
• Proposition & Capability Leadership: Lead the evolution of the company's AI adoption proposition across Government, developing market-leading frameworks, playbooks, methodologies and reusable assets that support both client outcomes and business growth.
• AI-Enabled Service Transformation: Work with senior leaders to reimagine services, processes and operating models in an AI-enabled world, helping organisations unlock new opportunities for effectiveness, productivity and citizen outcomes.
• Executive-Level Engagement: Use compelling demonstrations, workshops and leadership discussions to translate AI opportunities into practical actions, creating confidence and momentum among executive stakeholders.
• Business Development & Growth: Identify, shape and lead business development opportunities across Government, developing strong client relationships, creating compelling proposals and growing a sustainable pipeline of AI transformation work.
• Market Leadership: Maintain a deep understanding of Government AI adoption trends, policy developments and emerging technologies, translating these insights into differentiated client offerings and commercial opportunities.
• Cross-Government Perspective: Bring insight across health, local government, transport, environment and wider public sector organisations, identifying common adoption challenges and opportunities while sharing lessons across sectors.
• Practice Leadership: Play an active role in growing the company's Government AI capability through recruitment, capability building, knowledge sharing, proposition development and internal AI transformation initiatives.
• Coaching & People Development: Develop and mentor consultants, managers and senior managers, creating opportunities for growth while building practical expertise in AI adoption, delivery and responsible AI practices.

Your skills and experience:

• Significant experience leading large-scale transformation, digital, data or AI-enabled change programmes within government, healthcare or wider public sector organisations.
• Strong track record of developing trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including Directors, Deputy Directors, Executives, Boards and Programme Leaders.
• Deep understanding of government operating environments, including policy considerations, governance models, procurement, information governance, security and organisational constraints.
• Demonstrable experience helping organisations move from AI experimentation to scaled, organisation-wide adoption, embedding sustainable governance, capability and operating models.
• Experience identifying, shaping and winning consulting opportunities, including proposition development, sales, account growth and commercial leadership.
• Strong understanding of leading AI ecosystems, including Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and related technologies, with the ability to communicate both opportunities and limitations credibly to senior audiences.
• Experience translating emerging technology and AI trends into practical client offerings, thought leadership and commercial opportunities.
• Proven capability in building and leading high-performing teams, coaching others and creating an environment where people can maximise their impact and potential.
• A recognised leader who combines commercial awareness, client intimacy and delivery excellence to create lasting impact for clients and drive growth for the practice.

What a career at the company will give you:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: All our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the company Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act.