Partner - Insurance Consulting, UKI

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This is a Partner level role within our Insurance consulting business unit. The role as Insurance Consulting Partner UKI will lead growth of the consulting business across one or more strategic account(s) by leveraging both; existing & emerging capabilities, in addition to creating new strategic growth areas to deliver significant profitable growth for the accounts and consulting globally.  The role will report into the European Consulting Head for Insurance, with a dotted line to the local UKI Strategic Market Unit (SMU) sales team.

This role is expected to lead the growth agenda (in a business development, transformational and delivery capacity) across the following areas within the UKI region and in a supporting role across the wider European (and Global) Insurance markets;

• Life, Annuities and Pensions
• General Insurance (both Personal and Commercial Lines)
  • Platform experience (especially Guidewire)
• Broking and Re-Insurance
• Provide pull through opportunities for wider Wipro practice areas (Technology Services, Business Process Services and Engineering Services)

Our UKI Insurance Consulting Partner is expected to build and maintain senior client (up to C-level) relationships and leverage strategic partnerships as relevant for business growth strategy, in collaboration with the Global Account Executives and other business leaders globally.

Areas of focus

• Growth: Work with the Insurance leadership team and UKI sales teams to agree and execute a targeted sales strategy to grow Wipro’s Insurance business in UKI (leveraging our global capabilities)
• Relationships: As a Partner you bring a significant external network within the UKI Insurance markets that you can leverage to provide Wipro with business development opportunities. You also possess the ability to quickly forge constructive internal relationships within and across multiple Wipro practices ensuring we can take a truly ‘One Wipro’ approach to our clients. Specifically for this opportunity, we are looking for someone who can build and manage multi-level relationships (from C-Suite to Operational Leads) on an ongoing basis, for commercial value.
• Solutions: You will be a good ‘shaper’, able to pull together the best of what Wipro can offer to drive innovative solutions to client problems in the UKI market
• Team Building: Initially you will look to leverage the broader consulting capabilities within the UKI region, as well as our substantial offshore presence. As pipeline crystalizes, you will also look to build an on-site presence within the region of similarly minded Insurance domain consultants.

Develop Business, Sell & Deliver

• Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth across the region
• Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship building and networking skills on the client side, ecosystem partners and internal organization
• Successful in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and have the capability to drive and lead customer relationships into multimillion-dollar engagements.
• Work effectively along side our Global Account Executives within each strategic account to drive value that is both from consulting as well as our wider business offerings
• Bring a self-sufficient approach that will be both pro-active in driving business development opportunities as well as effective at creating personal utilization in our ‘sell & deliver’ operating model (after a period of embedding)
• Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi shore consulting projects with distributed teams delivering sustainable customer value

Driving Transformation

• Be a champion and passionate advocate for transformation in the UKI Insurance landscape to reposition Wipro as a strategic partner to accelerate and sustain customer value. The individual must be an ambassador for Digital Adoption and Digital Transformation for the Insurance industry.
• Significant transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems for tangible business benefits at large enterprise clients
• Influential internal change agent with gravitas and business building mindset
• Ability to drive and lead the strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients, partners, motivate teams and achieve results
• Bring strong program and consulting disciplines (e.g. Project / Program Management, Storytelling, Executive Communications, Commercial disciplines etc.)
• Possess a good working knowledge, in depth in areas, of common industry solutions (such as: Policy Administration systems (especially Guidewire), Finance / Actuarial, Claims or Data and Analytics platforms)
• Possess a good understanding and opinion as to where within the Insurance value chain, Clients can effectively leverage AI solutions to maximise valu

Talent Management

• Creative, collaborative, and motivating consulting leader who can focus diverse teams on common outcomes and goals
• Nurturing, developing, mentoring of top talent into future consulting business leaders
• Execution of organizational people strategy with strong collaboration from HR and Recruitment leads
• Proactively seeks opportunities to attract top diverse talent at all levels

Thought Leadership

• Strong local domain knowledge and experience of developing and delivering strategic business and transformative initiatives with a significant focus on Digital and Data within Insurance
• Brings own opinion on the key issues facing Insurers across the UKI region and able to demonstrate how they have leveraged this in a collaborative environment to develop points of views and propositions
• Ability to converse with industry leaders and analysts on trends within the UKI market.
• Proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions etc
• Internal content and offerings creator, writes publications, blogs and whitepapers
• Utilizes social media effectively with their digital presence to enhance the Wipro brand presence.

We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of their age, cultural background, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, or anything else. If you only meet some of the requirements for this role, that's okay! We value a diverse range of backgrounds & ideas and believe this is fundamental for our future success. So, if you have the curiosity to learn and the willingness to teach what you know, we'd love to hear from you.

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Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention. Come to Wipro. Realize your ambitions. 

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