Consulting Principal – Insurance Consulting

Senior Manager, Consulting

Insurance Consulting

Remote

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. 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 several 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 continually expanding our client base and increasingly recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!

The Role

Our Insurance Consulting group is looking for a Consulting Principal to join our journey. This role requires Retirement Consulting Practice and pension experience.

The ideal candidate will possess extensive knowledge and experience in strong ethics, including work ethic, track record of building and maintaining trusted working relationships with retirement / pension client counterpart(s), both within and beyond current scope of engagement. Can serve as a thought leader on retirement / pension industry best practices; manage research, development, and authoring of consulting mindshare, including articles, whitepapers, and other collaterals via traditional and social media channels.

We are looking for Consulting Principal 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 Consulting Manager, 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!

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, IT, Engineering, or other relevant field (Required)
• Advanced Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or other relevant field (Preferred)
• ~20 years of experience in the retirement / pension industry, including but not limited to: workplace defined contribution (DC) plans, workplace defined benefit (DB) plans, annuities, supplemental plans such as NQDC, COLI, pension risk transfer, etc. (Required)

Responsibilities:

• Commercially represent Cognizant as a key member of the Retirement Consulting Practice.
• Assess retirement / pension clients’ current state of maturity at different stages of the retirement / pension industry value stream — across multiple dimensions, including strategy, operating model, processes, technology solutions, application architecture, data, integrations, and more.
• Help retirement / pension 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 / pension requirements before they go to client.
• Identify and lead areas to build practice capabilities and presence.
• Help to create retirement / pension 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 / pension space that can be reused with multiple clients and prospects.
• Help lead efforts in recruitment and onboarding.

Qualifications:

• Easy to work with.
• Strong ethics, including work ethic.
• Track record of building and maintaining trusted working relationships with retirement / pension 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 / pension 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.)

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 300,000 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 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 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. 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 characteristic protected 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.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.

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