Programme Delivery Consultant - Insurance

Job Role: Programme Delivery Consultant

Location: London, Bath, Leeds

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Consultant 

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Now part of Accenture UK’s Strategy and Consulting function, Altus Consulting today has a team of around 100 consultants working on some of the industry’s most complex problems and largest transformations. For the last four years Altus Consulting has been recognised in the Financial Times list of top UK Management Consulting firms.

Who are Altus Consulting:

Our business was founded in 2005 with the belief that Financial Services should be faster and more efficient and has subsequently grown to become a leader in strategic consulting and technology across Insurance, encompassing General Insurance, Specialty Markets, Protection and Health Insurance.

With core offices in the beautiful city of Bath, as well as the City of London and Leeds, Altus Consulting’s mission is to drive positive transformation in Financial Services for the benefit of our clients and their customers. 

Whether that’s through bold strategy, robust designs, innovative technology or reliable delivery, our people are passionate about the work they undertake in partnership with our clients, and about improving the industry they work in. 

As a team:

Our clients come to us because we understand Financial Services and have “lived and breathed” the problems that they are facing.  Not only that, we produce realistic and actionable advice through visual Consulting methods, which are rated highly by our clients and enable them to head towards success.

If you are passionate about Financial Services and delivering business or technology solutions that make a genuine difference, then Altus is the place for you – for most roles, you don’t even need to have prior Consulting experience.  We provide an inclusive, positive, safe business for all of our team to work in.  As part of the broader Accenture team, you’ll have access to industry leading opportunities, genuine career advancement and an opportunity to work in a collaborative and highly stimulating environment. 

As a Programme Delivery Consultant (Project Manager / PMO), you will provide project management / project management office expertise to our clients and Consulting project teams, manage active engagements and client accounts, and help to develop new business.  As well as having excellent delivery skills, this role requires someone ambitious, innovative, hardworking and commercially minded.  They will play a key role in the delivery of significant growth plans for Programme Delivery as a core area of Altus Consulting over the next few years.

Responsibilities:

The main emphasis of the role is to deliver client engagements within the Insurance sector - with a focus on Life, Pensions and Retirement areas - through project management (PMO) expertise, both independently and through a dedicated team of specialists.

In addition, you will be expected to:

• • Own and manage client accounts where associates are deployed
  • Undertake regular service reviews and production of dashboards to the client
  • Manage and support deployed associates, assuring a high-quality delivery to the Client

Develop Programme Delivery strategy, proposition and service offerings through:

• • Innovating and supporting the delivery of strategic objectives
  • Contributing to the development and continuous improvement of the APEX delivery methodology and artefacts
  • Contributing to marketing activity generating thought leadership and propositional collateral

Supporting the development of new business through:

• • Identifying business development opportunities through existing accounts, consulting engagements and own network
  • Shaping proposals and bids based upon Altus’s Programme Delivery Services and Consulting industry models / toolkit
  • Producing thought leadership and appear in the press

Overall, you should be an advocate of Altus Consulting and Accenture with clients and the industry, displaying role model behaviours in line with our strong company values and ethos.

We are interested in your application if you have:

• • Proven and hands-on experience of delivering change in Financial Service - with a focus on Insurance, specifically in Life, Pensions and Retirement areas
  • A solid understanding of, and track-record in, the financial services industry  
  • Proficiency in change delivery methodology and practice
  • Experience and solid understanding of Financial Services business & IT operations and change delivery
  • Extremely thorough, inquisitive and hard-working behaviours
  • Excellent people and communication skills, able to confidently converse at Board level, with a track record of building strong business relationships
  • Innovative and with a strong ability to articulate ideas, bringing them to life visually and presenting them formally to clients
  • Understanding of IT fundamentals and different categories of FS systems
  • Genuine passion and enthusiasm to make a difference for Altus, and to grow and develop Programme Delivery
  • A history of building strong relationships with senior stakeholders
  • A willingness to travel and undertake varying roles   

What’s in it for you:  

The opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects in Financial Services, across UK, Ireland and Africa. Supported by a close-knit team of industry and technology experts and using our tried and tested consulting toolkit, you’ll be given full training and support as you progress through your career as a consultant and participate in growing the business. 

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the services we are known for.

Even if you don't meet all the requirements, we still want to hear from you!

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.  

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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