Head of Data & AI

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Responsible for leading CDW's Data & AI Solution Sales team which sits within the Solution Sales organisation. This strategic leadership role will (predominantly) have specialist sales, alliance leadership and technical presales as direct reports and will be responsible (alongside the Head of Solution Sales) for setting and managing the standards, directional plans and continuously driving improvement into the team for future business, team and personal growth.

The Data & AI team’s primary goal is delivering exceptional business outcomes for our customers through the sale and delivery of market leading products and value-added solutions and services.

The defining purpose of this Centre of Excellence (CoE) is to add significant value to our customers by improving and preparing their data – its quality, structure, governance, security and accessibility – so that they can enrich and unlock the full value of AI. The role holder is accountable for building a UK practice that leads with data readiness and converts it into sustained AI adoption and measurable customer outcomes.

• To deliver exceptional internal and external customer experiences and outcomes within the Data & AI portfolio and wider Solution Sales organisation whilst also driving a profitable outcome for CDW

• To clearly define (alongside the office of the CTO and the broader, key AI stakeholder group) the Data & AI Strategy and go to market – which technology areas we focus on, how we sequence data foundations ahead of AI, and how we continue to manage and grow a positive P&L within this team

• To work in partnership with various internal business units, supporting initiatives that drive improvements to the way we operate through process and platform, always demonstrating balanced flexibility and a passion to engage

• Provide success against revenue and GP targets relating to Data & AI such as modern data platform, data engineering and integration, data governance and quality, analytics, and applied AI

• To establish CDW as the UK's most credible partner for making customer data AI-ready, building repeatable assessment-led propositions that convert into platform, governance and AI programmes

• To ensure our propositions are delivered within UK regulatory, data protection, sovereignty and responsible AI expectations, in collaboration with the Security business unit, Legal and Compliance

• To create and evolve learning and development programmes (in collaboration with other business units) ensuring co-workers are continuing to develop individually and in line with business objectives, including vendor certification pathways across data and AI

• Build the UK's best Data & AI Solution Sales business by leading and developing this growth CoE (consisting of modern data platform and lakehouse, data engineering and integration, data governance, quality and lifecycle management, analytics and business intelligence, and applied AI and agentic solutions that provide the foundations for businesses to make trusted, data-driven decisions)

• Proactively drive exceptional and consistent customer and seller experiences innovating our delivery model, drive increased opportunity win rates and customer up/cross sell through progressive and credible Solution…