Practice Lead Data & AI

Job description

Your mission As Practice Lead Data & AI, you will be responsible for growing and shaping our Data & AI practice, increasing our market presence, and helping customers navigate their AI and data transformation journeys. You will act as a catalyst for growth by: Driving strategic customer engagements and complex Data & AI opportunities. Building strong executive-level relationships with customers and partners. Representing Inetum at events, round tables, and industry communities. Helping create and position innovative Data & AI offerings. Supporting the development of a strong and scalable Data & AI team. Attracting, mentoring, and inspiring top talent. Working closely with team leads, who will report into the practice structure. Collaborating with sales, delivery, and technology stakeholders to turn opportunities into successful engagements. You will play a crucial role in expanding our Data & AI footprint in Belgium and beyond. Your focus areas Customer Engage with customers on their most strategic Data & AI challenges. Support large and complex deal creation. Act as a trusted advisor on Data Platforms, Analytics, AI, Generative AI, and AI Sovereignty. Strengthen Inetum's position in the Belgian market. People Build, coach, and grow a high-performing team. Help attract both junior and senior Data & AI professionals. Create an inspiring environment where talent can thrive. Ensure the right skills are available to support customer demand and future growth. Offering & Innovation Shape and evolve Inetum's Data & AI portfolio. Stay ahead of market trends and emerging technologies. Work closely with Microsoft and other strategic partners. Drive innovation around responsible AI, sovereign AI, data platforms, and advanced analytics. Who are you? You are a senior professional with a proven track record in Data & AI consulting, technology leadership, or digital transformation. You combine technical depth with strong business acumen and natural leadership. Has extensive experience in Data & AI, Analytics, Cloud Data Platforms, and AI technologies. Has a strong customer-facing background. Is comfortable engaging with both technical leaders and executive stakeholders. Is recognized as a thought leader inside and outside their organization. Has experience speaking at events, customer forums, or industry communities. Is highly collaborative and able to influence without formal authority. Can inspire teams and create momentum in a fast-growing environment. Is fluent in Dutch, French, and English. About Inetum Inetum is a leading European digital services company. With more than 28,000 employees across 19 countries, we help businesses and institutions accelerate their digital transformation. Our strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow allow us to deliver top-level expertise across a broad technology ecosystem. Inetum is a European leader in digital services. Every day, the Group's 28,000 consultants and specialists aim to make a digital impact for businesses, public sector bodies and society as a whole: solutions that contribute to performance, innovation and the common good. Present in 19 countries, close to the regions, and with its major software publisher partners, Inetum meets the challenges of digital transformation with proximity and flexibility. In response to a market that has been growing steadily for over 30 years, Inetum has made the deliberate choice to refocus on 4 core businesses in order to gain strength and offer customized solutions tailored to the specific needs of its customers: consulting (Inetum Consulting), infrastructure and application management (Inetum Technologies), software implementation (Inetum Solutions) and its own software publishing business (Inetum Software). Inetum has forged strategic partnerships with 4 of the world's leading software publishers - Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft and SAP - and is pursuing a dedicated acquisition strategy to become one of Europe's top 5 in these technologies, and offer the best expertise to its customers.