Sr. Consultant / Managing Consultant - Property & Casual

Company: IBM 
Location: Denver, Colorado

• Salary: Not Specified
• Category: Information Tech / Computer
• Date Posted: 02/07/2012
• Region: Colorado-Denver
• Travel Required: Not Specified
• Security Clearance: No
• Work Type: Any

Job Description

Sr. Consultant / Managing Consultant - Property & Casualty Insurance Strategy

Job ID GBS-0440243 Job type Full-time Regular
Work country USA Posted 17-Nov-2011
Work city - Any, Job area Consulting & Services
Travel Up to 4 days a week (home on weekends-based on project requirements) Job category Consultant
Business unit ConServ Job role Business Transformation Consultant
Job role skillset INDUSTRY. Insurance. Ops
Commissionable/Sales-Incenti ve jobs only No

Job description
IBM Global Business Services - Help Make the World Work Smarter

The world is getting smarter, triggering unprecedented change. IBM's unparalleled ability to bring together deep business insight, advanced research, analytics, and technology enables IBM Global Business Services to help position its clients for the future. We leverage the proven roadmaps and frameworks that have been developed across 17 industries and the unique combination of skills and experiences of our teams in over 170 countries - unmatched capabilities. When you join IBM, you'll partner with our clients and unharness all of these capabilities to deliver real business value.

The Consultant, Property and Casualty Insurance Industry Specialist role will work with IBM's Property & Casualty insurance industry clients (across commercial and personal lines) to develop innovative solutions to address core insurance business issues. The P&C Consultant will be a project team member and learn to perform project tasks and begin to take responsibility for the leadership of sub-teams. You will also perform as a sub-team member and learn how your project tasks relate to the larger client context as you produce project deliverables.

The P&C Consultant role requires the consultant to perform the following specific tasks:
- Understand the business challenges of our Property and Casualty Insurance clients
- Identify specific business challenges across a variety of business domains such as Policy Administration, Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Marketing and Distribution
- Define specific business requirements to address business issues and challenges.
- In collaboration with the rest of the team, ensure that the proposed solution address all the client's business requirements
- Aligns business processes to technology using world class knowledge assets
- Solve the client's business and technology challenges by utilizing your deep understanding of the P&C insurance industry and ability to apply solutions
- Develop deep relationships within the client organization and build effective cross-functional teams across diverse stake holder groups including client business and technical organizations
- Work collaboratively with IBM's domestic and global delivery organizations, and third party software vendors
- Shape the client's views on project deliverables by delivery high quality work products
- Provide high quality, trusted advisor advice to customers to ensure appropriate process and technology solutions are proposed
- Accelerate the competitive performance of clients globally by being a preferred business and technology consulting partner
- Work in an unstructured environment and create and reuse intellectual capital to solve diverse, business and/or technology-related challenges.

Ideally, candidates should be experienced in the use of Issue Based Consulting techniques and specialized methodologies such as the IBM Global Services Method. Should be able to create client value and develop client deliverables and should demonstrate an ability to perform engagement team activities, including research, data collection, data analysis, preparation / presentation of recommendations and project design and implementation activities.

Since the majority of our consulting work is done at our client sites, this position requires extensive travel.

* It is also expected that newly hired resources into the Global Business Services U. S. practice live within a reasonable commuting distance (generally 50 miles) of the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Hartford, CT; Houston, TX; Kansas City, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Tulsa, OK; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; New York City, NY and surrounding area; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, DC.

Required

* High School Diploma/GED
* At least 2 years experience in the Property and Casualty Insurance industry
* At least 2 years experience in identifying specific business challenges across a variety of business domains such as Policy Administration, Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Marketing and Distribution
* At least 2 years experience in improving operations/process improvement
* At least 2 years experience in the use of process design/re-engineering and improvement/quality management methodologies and tools to improve operational workflow and efficiency
* At least 2 years experience in successfully managing client relationships
* At least 2 years experience in teaming and ability to work effectively in cross-functional and geographically diverse teams
* Readiness to travel Up to 4 days a week (home on weekends-based on project requirements)
* English: Intermediate

Preferred

* Bachelor's Degree
* At least 4 years experience in the Property and Casualty Insurance industry
* At least 4 years experience in identifying specific business challenges across a variety of business domains such as Policy Administration, Underwriting, Billing, Claims, Marketing and Distribution
* At least 4 years experience in improving operations/process improvement
* At least 2 years experience in professional services consulting at a national or global management consulting firm
* At least 2 years experience in a role performing successful negotiations
* At least 2 years experience in developing winning proposals and demonstrated track record of consistently exceeding goals
* English : Fluent

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