Deloitte Consulting, Consultant - Manager, Technology Programme Delivery, Insurance, UK
Role description
Technology is an exciting and thriving competency within our Consulting practice. We have a diverse practice with around1700 practitioners working on challenging engagements across a wide portfolio of clients, and operating from many offices around the UK. Our breadth and depth of expertise enables us to work with FTSE 100 clients to help define, shape and successfully deliver some of their most complex technology projects. The quality of our technical skills is enhanced through our practical knowledge of implementation and our ability to team with each other. Our tools and methodologies add to the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of our work.
Deloitte has one of the world’s largest Financial Services practices and we provide advisory services to clients across the global banking, capital markets, Insurance and asset management sectors. We are looking to grow our Delivery teams within our rapidly growing Insurance sector and are recruiting specifically at our Consultant, Senior Consultant and Manager grades.
Our solutions and services portfolio focuses on the following distinct areas:
- Establishing technology as a key enabler of business strategy through the development of closely aligned and pragmatic IT strategic plans
- Programme portfolio planning and development of roadmaps for technology-enabled business transformation programmes
- Helping clients to obtain cost effective IT solutions for the business
- Helping IT organisations to achieve best in class performance, extending their existing delivery capabilities
- Shaping, building, integrating and deploying tailored technology projects for top flight clients
- Delivering specific technology solutions which address specific business needs and issues
Who we work with
The Technology Insurance team at Deloitte is supporting our clients as they face a number of key challenges, spanning core operations, risk and finance functions and digital transformation. We work with clients in all sectors to overcome these challenges, including General Insurance, London Markets, complex Global Risk Carriers and Life Insurance.
Responsibilities
Delivery is one of six core Service Areas in Technology, providing clients with the advice and delivery support that they need in their complex technology programmes. Whether it is structuring, assuring, managing, delivering or setting up solutions we need the very best people to join us and strengthen our team even further. That is where you come in!
Delivery provides a range of services to help our Insurance clients deliver business driven, technology-enabled change across their organisation. We help our Clients in many different ways
- Define, establish and run their most complex technology-enabled change programmes
- Manage their portfolios of technology projects and programmes
- Independently assure their in-flight projects and programmes
- Recover their troubled projects and programmes
- Define, establish and run projects to select technology products or services
- Advise them on building their in-house technology delivery capability
We work across all aspects of technology delivery including digital solutions, package integration, custom development and infrastructure.
Attributes
Candidates require a combination of management, consultancy, project delivery and technical skills.
You will be expected to demonstrate that you have experience of working with IT clients and helping to deliver projects and programs for them.
You will:
- Be a self-starter
- Have honed your delivery skills in an Insurance environment (GI, Life, London markets)
- Possess strong commercial awareness and business acumen
- Manage and deliver projects with teams of Deloitte, clients and contractor resources
- Manage project financials, for example client billing and cash collection
- Develop new and sell-on sales opportunities by promoting Deloitte propositions, capabilities and maintaining on-going client relationships
- Manage bids and the sales process through to signing of the engagement letter
- Have a proven record of building strong business relationships and partnering with others to reach successful outcomes
- Develop a personal contact network across Deloitte and in the marketplace
- Support the career development of others by acting as a counsellor to a group of Technology consulting staff
- Support the continued growth of the business through contributing to the wider development of the practice (e.g. supporting the development of propositions, training, marketing, communications and recruitment activities)
- Have a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them; have a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
Requirements
- All candidates must have full travel mobility and the right to live and work in the UK.
- All candidates must have full travel mobility and the right to live and work in Europe and Switzerland.
We are Consulting
Three core competency areas make up our Consulting service line:
Technology
Strategy & Operations
Human Capital
We exist to solve complex problems
Our consultants are renowned for their straightforward approach to solving some of the world’s largest and most complex business challenges. With a team of over 3,000, each of us is energised by the challenge a seemingly inscrutable problem presents. Our distinctiveness lies in our refusal to accept a problem at face value - we draw on the depth of our shared insight to ask the right questions, and it’s these questions that uncover answers - answers with impact.
We are committed to collaboration
Our role is to unlock potential for growth and innovation. We believe this requires real collaboration ? with our own networks and with our clients. It’s why we commit to truly getting under the skin of our client’s needs, developing a full appreciation for their environment, goals and ambitions. We’re also unafraid to challenge. In so doing, we build long-term and trusted affinities.
We create long-term, sustainable impact
We often work hand-in-hand with our clients to help find the right solution and to help apply that solution. Our aim is to leave behind ambassadors who are equipped to continue the transformation we began. For us, it’s about embedding sustainable change, allowing the impact of our insight to be felt for a long time to come.
We offer a number of different career pathways
We offer three different career pathways at Deloitte, meaning that there are three different routes by which people can progress in Consulting. We provide variety regarding the career options available to you, assisting you to take career steps that fit your skills, talents and aspirations, and providing an environment where those choices can be discussed in meaningful and constructive career conversations.
The Consulting Career Paths are:
Consulting pathway ? pathway based around developing a broad consulting skillset alongside building expertise in a specific domain
Consulting Solutions pathway ? pathway where there is greater focus on building skills and deep expertise in a specific domain. Practitioners have a narrow focus, determined by their SME and type of contribution made
Consulting Services pathway ? pathway for people whose career is built around the delivery of managed services to clients (either internal or external)
About Deloitte
Deloitte offers integrated services that include Audit and Risk Advisory, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with global business and industry expertise to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
We deliver outstanding impact on the reputation and success of our clients, in the UK and globally. In pursuing this we contribute to a sustainable and prosperous society, and are firm believers in the positive impact business can and should have on the world it operates within.
At Deloitte we foster a collaborative culture where talented individuals can produce their best work. We value innovative thinking, diverse insights and a genuinely distinctive level of customer service through our expertise and professionalism.
We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture. We are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support agile working arrangements. We recognise that our people are juggling demanding careers with commitments and interests outside of work.
Hear from some of our people already working at Deloitte in agile ways.
We are proud to have received a special award for Best Innovation for our WorkAgility Time Out programme in the 2015 Top Employers for Working Families awards.