Senior Manager or Principal Consultant – Insurance

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Company : $10B SI (NASDAQ listed- 50,000 employees
Compensation : Open
Type : Full Time
Location : West Coast

Position Summary
The Senior Consulting Manager and Principal Consultant serve a critical role within our Insurance practice. Major activities include:

• business development
• supporting relationship development with clients
• leading and supporting key engagements and supporting/advising solution implementation teams
• working with delivery teams to assist in implementation planning efforts

Team members in this role possess demonstrated knowledge of the industry, a strong working knowledge of business processes, common supporting technology environment, and system lifecycle implementation. Team members will also have detailed knowledge in some of the following areas:

• Property & Casualty
  • Personal – products (e.g. home, auto), processes (policy admin, underwriting, billing, claims, distribution/agency management)
  • Commercial – large and small commercial, products (e.g. property, liability, loss sensitive), processes (e.g. policy admin, underwriting, billing, claims, distribution/agency management)
• Life and Annuity
  • Group business
  • Individual
  • Retirement

Position Responsibilities

• Be a part of the Insurance Business Consulting Practice team
• Engage with senior and/or middle level client personnel in support of fostering, shaping, scoping, and planning business/IT improvement initiatives
• Work with Insurance delivery teams (business analysts, business consultants, technical architects, etc) in proposing and delivering engagements/projects
• Manage/participate in delivery of consulting engagements and work closely with Cognizant account managers
• Facilitate business development and delivery sessions when needed
• Mentor and work within the business consultant community in grooming future consultants
• Share insurance domain knowledge with our team onsite and offshore

Position Requirements

• 10+ years of business analysis and/or consulting experience
• BS / BE / MBA degree or equivalent experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of overall insurance business processes, typical insurance operations and transactions. Certifications are a plus.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, organizational skills and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated aptitude towards problem identification, resolution and comprehension and interpretation of technical implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to confidently interact with customer IT and business teams
• Ability work with offshore delivery team members in clarifying and resolving issues, managing onsite/offshore team issues, collaborating on schedule management/priorities, and articulating customer solution needs
• Usage of Microsoft Project for creating and maintaining project schedules, resource loading, etc.
• 50+% travel supporting west coast and Midwest clients with anticipated heavier concentration on west coast

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