Role: Management Consulting Delivery Associate Manager – Life, Pensions & Investments

Location: London, Bath, Bristol, Hybrid

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Associate Manager

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

As a team:

Within Accenture, the UK Insurance Strategy & Consulting team focuses on scoping and shaping large transformational engagements for leading providers across the market. We help our Life, Pensions & Investments clients drive innovation through our deep Industry experience, extensive capabilities, proven assets & market insights both in the UK and globally.

With a strong and extensive client portfolio across Life, Wealth, Pensions, and Investment clients we support the full breadth of business change from defining market participation strategies and designing retail advice and distribution models, through to shaping and delivering digital customer journeys. Our work involves complex platform and technology transformations, including large‑scale re‑platforming programmes, optimising operating models and sourcing arrangements, and supporting clients through major M&A activity - covering deal strategy and diligence, as well as post‑deal target operating model design and integration delivery.

We were recently awarded a Gold rating for Insurance in the Financial Times report on the UK’s Leading Management Consultants.

In our team you will learn how to:

• Invent & provide solutions to real world problems across our Insurance clients, leveraging the latest technologies such as Gen AI

• Build deep client relationships and bring together the wider Accenture capability – including Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Song, Operations – to create differentiated offerings and enable the best solutions to our clients.

• Deliver tangible, transformational change for clients and develop points of view and results that lead the market sector.

As an Industry Associate Manager, you will:

• Lead workstreams and client engagements to solve complex business challenges across the Life, Pensions & Investments sector.

• Develop industry solutions, propositions and points of view that help clients address strategic, operational and technology-led change

• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders through growing industry expertise and market insight

• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across Accenture to deliver high-quality outcomes and measurable client value

• Support the identification, shaping and development of new client opportunities and account growth

• Coach and mentor junior practitioners, contributing to capability growth and a strong team culture

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Experience delivering business and technology change within the Life, Pensions & Investments sector, gained through industry or consulting roles

• Proven ability to lead workstreams, manage deliverables and drive successful client outcomes

• Strong knowledge of one or more LP&I domains, including pensions, investments, wealth, protection, life insurance or annuities

• Experience analysing complex business problems and developing practical, client-focused solutions

• Ability to build effective stakeholder relationships and communicate confidently across business and technology audiences

• Strong presentation, problem-solving and structured-thinking skills, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments

• Understanding of how digital, data and technology capabilities can be applied to transform client outcomes

• Experience coaching junior team members and contributing to high-performing teams

Set yourself apart:

• Passion and enthusiasm for innovating in the financial services industry

• Being comfortable interacting with senior client stakeholders (e.g. C-Suite, or C – 1 level)

• Track record in industry or consultancy of shaping & delivering complex change

• Distinctive industry point of view and compelling articulation

• Perspective on the Financial Services Technology Landscape (e.g. FinTechs, Solution Providers, Cloud Services)

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in ambiguous problem-solving environments

What’s in it for you

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.

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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