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Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,300 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

With a global network ranging from tech start-ups to Fortune 500 clients, we’ll offer you fascinating work, unrivalled opportunities for growth and the freedom to realise your potential to excel. Combining strategies, technologies and innovation, we turn complexity to opportunity and deliver enduring results, enabling you to build a successful and rewarding career. 

Within PA the Managing Consultant (MC) role represents a top tier appointment in the organisation, with MCs typically serving as our business development, thought and team leaders. With one foot in the operation, one foot in the strategic and a head for business and proposition development, this role is highly varied and calls for someone who is autonomous and a self-starter. 

Our experience ranges from supporting highly complex business transformations, to delivering infrastructure and engineering projects, through to providing deep technical expertise on IT and technology driven change. We operate across all sectors and this opportunity focusses on roles in financial service organisations, specifically in General, Commercial, Health and Speciality insurance (more detail is included in the section below).

Key Duties

Develop strategic client relationships, working at the senior levels to sell value adding consulting assignment
Engage with and influence senior client stakeholders to drive successful delivery of transformation programmes and realise business goals
Lead and deliver large scale and complex projects – managing project teams (2-10 people) being actively involved and taking ownership of delivery
Develop commercially viable consulting market offerings

Qualifications

We are seeking talented individuals with extensive experience of leading large scale business and technology change across multiple functional domains. Our Insurance practice is a high growth area for PA, working with a number of the UK’s and Europe’s leading Insurers. This role offers the opportunity for accelerated growth with PA with significant responsibility.

We are looking for candidates with skills and experience in the following areas:

Core experience of leading delivery of complex projects in the Insurance sector, with a particular focus on major transformations involving both technology and people change within General, Commercial, Health and or Specialty and Broking

Understanding of key market dynamics and regulations that shape at least deep consulting expertise with one or more Insurance subsectors (General Insurance, London Market / Specialty and Health)

Core experience of working and delivering complex programs within the Financial Services sector

A deep understanding of how Insurance business and organisations thrive and stay ahead of the competition when dealing with such challenges as digitisation, disruption, sustainability and remote working

Understanding of key market, regulatory and technology trends driving change agendas in insurance especially with regards to digitisation, conduct risk and modern technology platforms

The ability to demonstrate leadership skills in large and diverse project teams

Building relationships with senior insurance stakeholders in both a delivery and complex sales context

Ability to work across multiple levels of an organisation

An aptitude for delivering creative and ingenious solutions

Excellent interpersonal and team working skill are essential, along with specific consulting experience in one or more of the following areas in General Insurance, Commercial, Health and/or Specialty Insurance;

Digitisation and automation

Systems transformation – e.g. legacy replacement, cloud migration

Data, analytics and machine learning

Regulatory transformation e.g. Conduct, cyber, fraud

Growth strategy and portfolio optimisation

Operating model design

Distribution and advice transformation

Other desirable experience includes:

Operating model and enterprise architecture development

Experience of running IT system integration projects within a General, Specialty or Health insurance or related financial services environment

SDLC project management or support from Project Charter to End User Acceptance and Post Production Support.

Scaled Agile delivery

Core systems selection e.g. Policy, Claims, UW, Ratings and/or CRM

Managing project stakeholders, SME's and Technology from planning phases, design, build and implementation phase

Facilitation of process redesign workshops

Managing multi-functional teams of developers, engineers, and QA testers on integration projects.

Managing Consultant - Financial Services - Insurance (non-Life)

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