Strategy, Sourcing and Operating model - Senior Manager

PwC Consulting helps organisations to work smarter and grow faster.

With plans to treble its revenues over the next four years, Consulting is the fastest growing area of PwC. We offer practical, far-sighted advice and exceptional delivery. That can mean improving the way an organisation operates, reducing costs, managing risks, making the most of talent or fundamentally changing the way a business works.

Who we are looking for

PwC is looking for new Senior Managers within our Insurance focused Technology Consulting team. We are looking for people with skills in Core systems transformation and also people with broader technology enabled insurance transformation experience.

The increased focus on transparency within the marketplace and ever-increasing regulatory requirements need to be addressed in parallel. Our Financial Services (FS) client base covers a breadth of FTSE100 organisations covering Retail and Commercial Banking, Capital markets, Insurance and Investment Management (I&IM). In the current economic climate, organisations are increasingly turning to PwC for advice on leveraging their business operations and sustainably developing their organisations in response to market opportunities.

Within this context, we have high growth targets and part of the strategy to achieve this is to bring in experienced hires to help our clients meet the challenges they are facing in the insurance sector.

We deliver high value solutions, from strategy to execution, solving our clients' complex business problems through technology enablement:

• Driving value from technology and operations
• Customer reach
• Technology resilience
• Competitive advantage through agility
• Risk and regulatory complexity
• Achieving business insight
• Achieving business growth

About the role:

• Within the field of Insurance Technology this is a senior level appointment for a Senior Manager to be responsible for:
• Identifying client needs and proposing solutions to them;
• Leading the delivery of projects;
• Building relationships with our key Insurance clients;
• Developing the careers of the teams working with and reporting to you;
• Maintaining a consistently high and leading edge market profile.

Key responsibilities:

• Delivery leadership;
• Technology and wider Consulting team building;
• Thought leadership.
• Additional information
• Opportunity for working from home? Absolutely, though typically client/project dependent
• Amount of time client based? Variable, 60-70% of time
• Need to travel/overnight stays away from home? Yes, though flexible arrangements typical
• Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? Absolutely, though typically client/project dependent
• Amount of time PwC office based? Balance of time, 30-40%

The following skills and experience are required for this role:

Essential skills:

• A working knowledge of the application and solution architecture choices within the insurance technology landscape;
• Recent experience of core insurance package configuration and integration;
• Experience in core insurance digital solutions
• An accomplished practitioner in helping insurance clients construct application, solution and enterprise architectures
• Understanding of cost-to-serve models
• Practical experience of SDLCs and delivery models including iterative/RAD approaches
• Experience of test management and delivery
• Data Analytics
• Excellent interpersonal skills & networking ability to develop and nurture contacts;
• Individual, Social and Business Interaction - Flexible in using a range of influencing styles in order to build strong sustainable relationships, and demonstrating the firm's values;
• Business acumen to identify client's real business needs which PwC can satisfy;
• First class delivery skills of large, complex and multi-vendor projects;
• Solid and articulate report, proposal and article writing skills to communicate corporate viewpoints on breaking news and technical publications;
• Personal and Professional Development - Committed to seeking and acting on feedback and learning opportunities;
• A track record of coaching and developing team members; and
• A track record of delivery within a similar environment.

Desirable skills:

• Business Skills - Understanding our client's business and showing strong commercial acumen in the seeking out of opportunities and the winning of work;
• Delivery Skills - The ability to use our industry and technical skills to better deliver practical solutions that are valued by the client, for instance the shaping and delivery of Service Oriented Architecture solutions;
• Analytical Skills - Identifying and diagnosing client issues through rigorous analysis, including data analytics, rather than selling PwC solutions; and
• Technical Skills - Knowledge of a subset of key packages used in the insurance industry - (eg General Insurance administration systems, Guidewire, Life and Pension Applications, London Markets systems, Salesforce.com, Pega etc)

Location

London

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.