VP Data Scientist

Capgemini’s Insights & Data practice helps leading organizations harness data to drive innovation, efficiency, and transformation. With a focus on AI and analytics, the team delivers measurable impact across industries. You’ll join a purpose-driven team working with cutting-edge technologies in a global, agile environment, with strong support for career growth, learning, and making a difference.

The Head of AI – Europe is accountable for leading and scaling Capgemini’s AI First agenda across the European region, driving measurable business growth, differentiated client outcomes, and world-class AI delivery at scale.

This role owns the end-to-end European AI transformation lifecycle — from market positioning and demand creation to industrialised delivery and value realisation. Working closely with country CEOs, industry leaders, hyperscalers, and C-suite clients, the role ensures AI is consistently embedded across solutions, operating models, and transformation programmes.

A core mandate is to ensure clients experience Capgemini’s AI capabilities as a coherent, high-value European proposition — combining strategy, engineering excellence, responsible AI, reusable assets, and delivery rigor to generate predictable, scalable outcomes across all European markets.

This role will work closely with and will also have a report line into the I&D AI global practice, aligning on the global strategy for AI acceleration and contributing to the success of that strategy in Europe.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & AI Positioning

• Define and execute the European AI First strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligned to global priorities and regional growth ambitions.
• Position Capgemini as a trusted AI transformation leader with clients, partners, regulators, and European industry forums.
• Partner with country and industry leadership to embed AI into offerings, GTM strategies, and investment priorities.
• Drive C-suite level AI conversations focused on business value, operating model transformation, and measurable ROI.

Deal Leadership & Growth

• Drive AI-led revenue growth, pipeline development, and deal conversion across Europe.
• Lead and shape major European AI pursuits, providing executive-level guidance on AI architecture and engineering choices, agentic and generative AI integration, and commercial and delivery models.
• Build trusted relationships with C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.
• Ensure consistent adoption of industrialised AI delivery patterns, accelerators, and commercial frameworks across countries.

AI Delivery & Excellence

• Accountable for predictable, high-quality delivery of large-scale AI transformation programmes across multiple countries.
• Ensure delivery models enable speed, quality, reusability, and risk control.
• Embed strong engineering standards, platform thinking, and lifecycle governance across European AI engagements.
• Improve delivery margin, time-to-value, and client satisfaction on AI programmes.

AI-Enabled Transformation

• Drive adoption of new tools, skills, and operating models required for GenAI at scale, agentic systems, and AI-augmented delivery and productivity.
• Ensure AI solutions are deployed responsibly, securely, and compliantly across programmes.

Development

• Build and evolve European AI, data, and engineering capabilities through structured upskilling and certification, leadership development, and strategic hiring.
• Strengthen delivery capability and innovation through deep partnerships with hyperscalers and key technology vendors.
• Improve consistency of skills, quality, and delivery maturity across all European countries.

Asset Adoption & Innovation

• Drive regional reuse of AI assets, accelerators, platforms, and patterns to accelerate outcomes and reduce delivery risk.
• Increase speed-to-value through proven, repeatable AI solutions.
• Foster innovation and co-creation with clients, partners, and start-ups to deliver industry-specific AI solutions.
• Align industry, delivery, and platform teams to maximise scale and impact.

Ecosystem & Market Influence

• Strengthen Capgemini’s role within the European AI ecosystem, engaging with hyperscalers, academia, alliances, and public sector bodies.
• Contribute to thought leadership and represent Capgemini at key industry events.

Governance & Responsible AI

• Ensure compliance with Group-wide AI governance, ethics, security, and regulatory standards.
• Support clients in navigating European AI regulation and emerging compliance requirements.
• Maintain strong oversight across AI engagements.

Essential Experience

• Senior leadership experience in AI, digital, cloud, or large-scale technology transformation.
• Proven success leading multi-country or multi-disciplinary teams in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Strong track record of winning and delivering enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
• Executive presence and the ability to influence senior client and partner stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of AI technologies, architectures, engineering practices, and cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across geographies within a global delivery model.
• Background in consulting or professional services.
• Current residence in UK, Spain, Netherlands or Germany.

Desirable Experience

• Experience engaging with European regulators or industry bodies.
• Strong understanding of European markets, cultural dynamics, and the technology landscape.