Innovation Strategy Consultant (IT)

At CGI, we empower clients to turn bold ideas into measurable business outcomes through innovation, data and AI strategy. As an Innovation Strategy Consultant, you?ll help leading organisations reimagine their future ? defining visions, shaping experimentation portfolios, and guiding teams to discover and deliver value at pace. You?ll join a community that thrives on curiosity and collaboration, where creative thinking drives transformation and your expertise shapes the next wave of intelligent, data-driven innovation. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and named a UK ?Best Employer? by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) that makes you a CGI Partner, not just an employee. We?re committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse tech community, and proudly hold a Gold Award for our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you?ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We?ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Candidate profile: In this role, you?ll lead lean data and AI strategy engagements that help clients define, test and scale innovative solutions unlocking measurable business value. You?ll act as a trusted advisor - shaping clear strategies and portfolios, guiding teams through uncertainty, and enabling clients to experiment, learn and grow. Working with multidisciplinary teams, you?ll design roadmaps and business cases that bridge strategy and delivery ? ensuring every idea has the clarity, evidence and momentum to succeed. You?ll also collaborate with senior stakeholders, coach client teams in innovation frameworks, and contribute to thought leadership that strengthens CGI?s strategic consulting offering. Key responsibilities include:

• Lead & Innovate: Guide data and AI strategy projects using lean, agile and design-led methods.
• Discover & Define: Identify and frame innovation opportunities using data, customer and market insights.
• Experiment & Validate: Design and run MVPs, proofs of concept and pilots to test ideas rapidly.
• Strategise & Roadmap: Create clear innovation strategies and roadmaps aligned to client goals.
• Model & Measure: Build strong business cases showing ROI and strategic impact.
• Collaborate & Facilitate: Lead co-creation workshops and cross-functional team sessions.
• Advise & Coach: Build client capability in innovation, lean experimentation and data-driven decisions.
• Contribute & Grow: Support CGI thought leadership and innovation accelerators.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role You?ll bring strategic thinking, commercial acumen and hands-on innovation experience. Essential qualifications:

• Proven experience leading client and team with confidence through complex and ambiguous contexts to identify value and focus action
• Fluency with lean strategy, experimentation, prototyping and hypothesis driven design (e.g. proficient using techniques such as business model canvas, value proposition design, jobs to be done, competitor analysis, market analysis, prioritisation frameworks, problem framing, hypothesis creation, customer journey mapping, service blueprint etc.)
• Strong facilitation skills leading large groups and teams effectively through co-creation workshops from idea to execution with the ability to adapt and pivot
• Comfortable engaging C-suite stakeholders, translating strategy into actionable experiments
• Awareness of data and AI opportunity spaces (no need to code but should know the questions to ask)
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to structure and create business cases that articulate a clear value story combined with an engaging strategic narrative and compelling ROI based on sound financial modelling.

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