GM/VP - Lead - Research & Analytics - Insurance

Research and Analytics Lead (GM - VP Level)

Role Description :

Account Management :

- The incumbent will be responsible to lead the Analytic business for leading Insurance provider. Manage the P&L grow the business consistently & profitably to achieve an organization with growth of people and turnover with target profit margins

People Management :

- Should have considerable experience in managing large analytics teams (100+ members)

Client management :

- Should have experience in managing clients, multiple stakeholders and engage proactively to ensure best in class service delivery and identify farming opportunities.

Growth pipeline :

- Support the growth pipeline process through active engagement and execution support for new opportunity areas.

- Ensure formulation and achievement of goals, strategy, structure, staffing, skills, style and processes are synergistic with the vertical's objectives / super ordinate goal

Solution design support :

- Engage with internal stakeholders, existing and new clients to understand their requirements and translate these into a solution framework.

- This will entail creative thinking abilities and an ability to interpret unstructured requirements

Project based execution support :

- Help incubate new engagements by executing Pilot, Proof of Concept projects to establish capabilities and credibility with existing and new clients.

- This may entail working either as an independent analyst or as part of a larger team to deliver on client requirements

New capabilities development :

- Prepare white papers and undertaking proof of concepts on data available with the existing support teams. This will also include providing analytics support to the Operations teams

Best practice sharing :

- Participate in translating analytics best practices across different customer accounts and aid capability building for the Insurance R&A practice.

- This may also entail helping build domain and technical capabilities within the team and vertical through training support

Knowledge and Experience :

- 15-17 years Insurance analytics experience with very good exposure to various functions within an Insurance Company

- Ability to undertake drill down analysis of key business problems and interpret results, generate insights and recommend strategies

- Ability to translate business problems into most efficient and effective analysis plan; Should be able to manage and mentor the team working on the analysis including data pull, data preparation and build statistical models using SAS / R /other statistical tools

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to manage large teams

- Conceptual, analytical & tactical thinking, strategic thought process

- Exposure to analytical modeling in the Insurance domain is desirable/being numerate is essential

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop strong working relationships and effectively influence all levels of business stakeholders

- Ability to naturally assume ownership of initiatives, requiring minimal supervision to consistently deliver outstanding results

- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across different geographies. Familiar with US & Europe markets