Overview
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 by defining visions, shaping experimentation portfolios, and guiding teams to discover and deliver value at pace. 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 collaborate with senior stakeholders, coach client teams in innovation frameworks, and contribute to thought leadership that strengthens CGI’s strategic consulting offering.
Responsibilities
* 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.
* You’ll bring strategic thinking, commercial acumen and hands-on innovation experience.
* 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, including methods 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, and service blueprinting.
* Strong facilitation skills leading large groups and teams 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 know the questions to ask).
* Strong commercial acumen with the ability to structure and create business cases that articulate a clear value story with an engaging strategic narrative and compelling ROI based on sound financial modelling.
Life at CGI
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. You’re invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. We call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees and help you develop innovative solutions while accessing global capabilities to scale ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. Join one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Benefits & Culture
CGI offers a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, and a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) that aligns you with CGI Partners. 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. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
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