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Lead Consultant, Data & AI Strategy
Contract type/Location: Near London ideally, flexible for the right candidate
We're hiring a Lead Consultant to join the Financial Services and insurance focused data and AI consulting practice of one of the biggest companies in the world.
This is an advisory role, not a technical delivery one. You'll be the strategic partner to the technical lead on engagements, bringing real consulting range: comfortable in the room with senior stakeholders, confident owning commercial conversations, and able to navigate the practical realities of legacy platforms and tech debt.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading client relationship management directly alongside the technical lead, holding your own with senior FS and insurance stakeholders
- Understanding and managing tech debt conversations, speaking credibly into legacy platform constraints (policy admin, claims systems) and how that shapes what's realistically deliverable
- Owning budget conversations and commercial framing, balancing client demand against margin and delivery cost
- Running project management across advisory engagements, sequencing workstreams, managing scope creep, and keeping delivery on track
- Driving commercial outcomes, not just tracking delivery but ensuring engagements move the needle for the client commercially
- Setting and tracking KPIs, defining what success looks like for a strategy engagement and reporting on it at a senior level
- Navigating client politics and balancing client demand with what's commercially sustainable
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- Big 4 or Tier 1/Tier 2 consulting background, this is non-negotiable regardless of seniority
- Strong track record managing senior stakeholder relationships in financial services or insurance
- Genuine commercial acumen, comfortable owning budget, margin, and pricing conversations
- Experience running advisory engagements end to end, including scope, KPIs, and delivery tracking
- Confidence navigating politically sensitive client environments
- Based near London or able to work onshore consistently
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