Data & AI Strategy Consultant - Manager/Senior Manager

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in strategy consulting, digital transformation or corporate innovation, ideally within Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data and AI strategy, including Generative AI, AI operating models, responsible AI, ethics and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to develop compelling executive presentations, influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex concepts with clarity.
• Experience designing and facilitating executive workshops, aligning cross-functional stakeholders and driving strategic decision-making.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity with a collaborative, outcome-focused approach and a curiosity for adopting AI-enabled methods that improve productivity, insight and delivery quality.
• Strategy consulting experience within Financial Services, including banking, insurance or asset management.
• Familiarity with AI regulation (such as the EU AI Act), AI governance, model risk management or responsible AI frameworks.
• Understanding of modern data platforms, analytics capabilities and AI technologies from a strategic rather than technical perspective.
• Experience mentoring consultants, developing strategy methodologies or building reusable consulting accelerators.
• Demonstrated thought leadership, proposition development or business development within AI, data or digital transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with C-suite clients to define strategic AI ambitions, aligning enterprise data and AI capabilities with business priorities, competitive differentiation and long-term value creation.
• Act as a subject matter expert on emerging AI and data technologies, advising clients on how to responsibly adopt innovations including Generative AI, Agentic AI and intelligent automation to accelerate business outcomes.
• Lead the definition of enterprise data and AI strategies, identifying high-value use cases and translating them into practical roadmaps that balance opportunity, risk, governance and organisational readiness.
• Facilitate executive workshops, visioning sessions and strategic decision-making, developing compelling board-level narratives and investment cases while using AI-enabled insights and approved AI tools to enhance analysis and strategic recommendations.
• Collaborate across our Engineering, Architecture, Risk, Product, Innovation and Data teams to ensure strategic recommendations are actionable, commercially viable and aligned with responsible AI principles.
• Contribute to our perspective on how AI is reshaping the financial services value chain and help develop market-leading propositions.
• Lead business development conversations, shape proposals and strengthen our position as a trusted advisor in AI and data strategy.
• Mentor colleagues, fostering strategic thinking, innovation and the effective use of AI-enabled ways of working across the wider team.
• Develop strategy methodologies, accelerators and reusable assets that improve delivery quality, consistency and efficiency.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Support

More:

We are Capco, and our Data Strategy & Advisory team is hiring a Manager or Senior Manager in London on a permanent hybrid basis within our Data & Analytics practice. We work with Tier 1 financial institutions and help shape the future of digital financial services and digital transformation across FS & Energy. Our culture is collaborative, flat and entrepreneurial, with continuous learning, training and industry certifications, a business coach from day one, and a wide range of benefits including bonus, pension, health and life cover, mental health support, family-friendly leave, backup care, holiday flexibility, annual training hours, healthcare access and extra perks such as gym membership support, travel insurance, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work and dental insurance. We are committed to accessible recruitment and an inclusive #BeYourselfAtWork culture that values individuality and collaboration.

last updated 34 week of 2026