Project Manager - Life and Pensions

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Consulting Manager, Life Insurance & Pensions

The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.).

Cognizant Insurance Consulting

Cognizant's Insurance Consulting unit is seeking a talented consulting manager with experience leading large-scale business change and IT transformation for Insurance and/or Life & Pensions clients in the UK to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Governance, Risk, and Compliance. This role involves providing strategic consulting services to clients, ensuring they meet regulatory requirements and manage risks effectively. The candidate will play a crucial role in driving client success and contributing to the company's growth.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Performed Project management roles on complex Business & Technology Transformation Programmes, with Life & Pensions clients; assisting them achieve their business, technology, strategic and operational goals.
• Possess strong experience of leading project teams with minimal support and supervision.
• Should be highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks.
• Should have a strong understanding and knowledge of the UK Life & Pensions business, products, and lifecycles.
• Identify and develop trusted adviser relationship with project stakeholders and sponsors.
• Ability to develop creative strategic solutions to solve clients' business problems and create accompanying execution roadmaps to implement the changes.
• Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs.
• Proven ability to work in an multi-squad environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business or technical objective
• Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross - functional environment.
• Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO and key stakeholders.
• Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project lifecycle.
• Deliver consistent status updates to client regarding performance to objectives, engagement constraints and mitigation plan for risks/issues.
• Serve as "first line of defence" to ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables meet or exceed client expectations.

Industry Experience:

• Deep experience of the London Market Insurance industry, preferably within the Life & Pensions or Broker sectors.
• Project management skillset including defining project boundaries, reporting cadence, contemporary tools knowledge, risks & issues and mitigation strategies.
• Hands-on experience across financial services and/or Insurance value chain is highly desirable.
• Detailed knowledge of the UK Life & Pensions business lifecycle and Protection products.

Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrate exceptional core consulting skills and possess the ability to solve client's most challenging problems.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with client counterparts and senior stakeholders.
• Translate engagement objectives into defined scope and executable tasks for the project team members.
• Analyse findings presented by team members and provided constructive feedback re: hypothesis, conclusions, solutions, etc...
• Open-minded and pragmatic, with ability to guide teams to deal with conflicts / constraints and escalate to engagement leadership as needed.

Contribution to Development of Practice:

• Contribute to practice activities such as Capability Development, Knowledge Management, Proposition or Solution Development
• Support and lead team in the development of RFI/RFP responses and other business development opportunities.
• Lead teams to package and cleanse engagement deliverables for practice re-use.
• Support service line development and case studies through the gathering of industry best practices and self-knowledge.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Project Management and/or Scrum master certification
• Experience on industry specific project management (Life & Pensions)
• Experience managing teams re: research, development and authoring of consulting mindshare i.e. articles, whitepapers, and other collaterals via traditional and social media channels

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

• Cognizant is a global community with more than 345,000 associates around the world.
• We don't just dream of a better way - we make it happen.
• We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what's right.
• We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that's right for you.

About us:
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, helping organizations modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they stay ahead in a fast-changing world.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer:
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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