Senior Consultant - Insurance Consulting

Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting

Insurance Consulting Group

Atlanta, New Jersey, Dallas, Chicago

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

The Role

Our Insurance Consulting Group is looking for a Senior Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities

• Commercially represent Cognizant as a key member of the Retirement Consulting Practice.
• Assess retirement / annuities clients' current state of maturity at different stages of the retirement / annuities industry value stream -- across multiple dimensions, including strategy, operating model, processes, technology solutions, application architecture, data, integrations, and more.
• Help retirement / annuities industry leaders transform their businesses.
• Work with Cognizant leadership and client leadership to plan value-additive projects.
• Manage economics across a couple large or several smaller projects.
• Identify and pursue upsell opportunities with existing clients.
• Manage RFI/RFP responses and other business development opportunities.
• Translate objectives into defined scope and executable tasks for team members.
• Coach team members; deliver continuous and constructive feedback.
• Sign off on quality and relevance of retirement / annuities requirements before they go to client.
• Identify and lead areas to build practice capabilities and presence.
• Help to create retirement / annuities consulting practice case studies, white papers, and points-of-view through the gathering of industry best practices and self-knowledge.
• Create consulting assets for the retirement / annuities space that can be reused with multiple clients and prospects.
• Help lead efforts in recruitment and onboarding.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or other relevant field (Required)
• Advanced Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or other relevant field (Preferred)
• 10 years of experience in the retirement / annuities industry, including but not limited to: fixed annuities, variable annuities, indexed annuities, RILAs, QLACs, immediate and deferred annuities, 1035 exchanges, etc (Required)
• Easy to work with.
• Strong ethics, including work ethic.
• Track record of building and maintaining trusted working relationships with retirement / annuities client counterpart(s), both within and beyond current scope of engagement.
• Be seen as a trusted resource who sees across current projects / work streams to the "big picture".
• Be seen as a people leader who people want to follow.
• Credibly can help deliver training and career development to individuals and teams.
• Can serve as a thought leader on retirement / annuities industry best practices; manage research, development, and authoring of consulting mindshare, including articles, whitepapers, and other collaterals via traditional and social media channels.

Work Authorization

• Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)