Managing Consultant - Insurance

Capgemini; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK is seeking a Managing Consultant to join their Insurance practice. The role involves designing and leading strategies, delivering innovative solutions, and contributing to business development. Ideal candidates will have management consulting experience in Property/Casualty and Life insurance, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to blend Agile and traditional methodologies. The position supports hybrid working arrangements and aims to foster a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Wellbeing support programs

Opportunities for training and development

Qualifications

• Deep Insurance and Consulting experience with innovative points of view.
• Comfortable leading teams and delivering excellence.
• Understanding of business and technology trends.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead streams of work to contribute to business growth.
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to improve business performance.
• Identify and analyze problems affecting solution delivery.

Skills

Management consulting experience

Stakeholder management

Agile project management

Verbal communication skills

Financial management

People management

Job description

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your role:

As a Managing Consultant in our Insurance practice, you will be working with some of the world’s largest commercial and personal lines insurers - across Property/Casualty, Life and Health - to advise, shape and deliver market leading strategies, business models and digital propositions.

What you will do:

• You will design and lead streams of work whilst playing a role in Capgemini’s growth through successful delivery, contributing to our offers and knowledge, as well as developing new business.
• You will apply a 'systems-thinking' mindset, proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure our clients' ambitions and objectives are achieved.
• You will bring the right combination of style and substance, ensuring that the basics are right, whilst always focusing on adding value to our clients.
• You will identify and analyse problems and issues that may affect the successful delivery and adoption of our proposed solutions into the business.
• You will work collaboratively in cross-functional teams to drive continuous business performance improvement.

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution - Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your profile:

You will have deep Insurance and Consulting experience, and you will have novel points of view regarding the future of the industry. You will be familiar with business and technology trends, as well as key Insurtech players. In addition, you will be comfortable leading teams and delivering excellence.

Key expectations from this role include:

• Management consulting experience with a proven track record of driving business value in Property/Casualty, Life and/or Health insurance.
• Exceptional stakeholder management with experience of being able to influence senior stakeholders and 'get things done' across a range of organisations, varying in size and complexity.
• Expert knowledge and experience of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices, and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
• First class written and verbal communication skills, the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner.
• Strong business acumen, a high level of financial management capability, and experience of providing key management information to support the business.
• Understanding of modern digital technologies.
• Experience in people management and proven ability to nurture and develop individuals.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation and to enlist support and commitment from peers in developing, selling and delivering consulting solutions.

What you’ll love about working here:

You’ll thrive in a collaborative and diverse environment that empowers you to innovate, grow your skills, and make a real impact-whether you’re shaping solutions for clients or driving positive change in society. You will be supported by a culture that values inclusion, continuous learning, and the freedom to bring your authentic self to work every day.

Need to know:

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

CSR:

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you will join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.