Director - AI Public Sector

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…