Insurance Distribution (Financial Services) Senior Manager, Business Consulting(1695943)

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In today's fast‑evolving financial services landscape, insurers are under tremendous pressure to transform their distribution models, strengthen channel productivity, enhance customer engagement, and pivot towards digital and data‑driven sales. As a Business Transformation consultant specialising in Insurance Distribution, you will help insurers translate their strategic aspirations across agency, bancassurance, digital, and partnership channels into meaningful and measurable change. You will work at the intersection of commercial strategy, distribution effectiveness, operating model transformation, and digital enablement, partnering with leading insurers to build the distribution models of the future. Business Transformation consultants at EY are strategic thinkers and change drivers. Working across the Financial Services sector, you will collaborate with experts in customer strategy, operations, digital, data, and technology to design, build, and run tomorrow's distribution ecosystems. They embrace an outcome‑oriented culture, live EY's core values, and collaborate widely to consistently deliver value‑adding client outcomes. Your Key Responsibilities Work within the Business Transformation team focusing on distribution strategy, future operating models, productivity design, incentive optimisation, customer & agent experience, and digital enablement across insurance distribution channels. Support senior leaders in developing client insights, including market benchmarks, distribution performance assessments, channel profitability analysis, and customer/agent journey diagnostics. Collaborate across multi‑disciplinary EY teams to develop end‑to‑end solutions that address insurer pain points related to sales productivity, channel cost management, compensation structures, and distribution governance. Prepare high‑quality deliverables such as business cases, operating model designs, transformation roadmaps, and executive presentations tailored to client needs. Participate in business development activities, assisting in the creation of proposals, point‑of‑view papers and thought leadership related to insurance distribution. Form part of project delivery teams, taking ownership of workstreams involving data analysis, problem structuring, stakeholder interviews, and solution design. Support change management and implementation activities to ensure successful adoption of new operating models, incentives, sales processes, and digital tools. Skills and Attributes for Success Passion for transforming insurance distribution and improving agency, bancassurance, digital, or partnership channel performance. Strong interest in solving commercial, operational, and customer‑experience challenges faced by insurance distribution teams. Ability to understand both business drivers and technology enablers-including CRM, lead management systems, agent tools, and digital acquisition platforms-to support distribution innovation. A mindset oriented towards automation and digitalisation, always seeking opportunities to streamline distribution processes and create frictionless sales journeys for customers and agents. Strong analytical and structured problem‑solving skills, with the ability to link data insights to commercial outcomes. Excellent communication and storytelling skills. Able to translate complex issues into clear, compelling recommendations for senior stakeholders. To Qualify for the role, you must have Minimum 10 years of experience in the insurance industry or consulting, ideally in areas related to distribution strategy, agency or bancassurance management, digital distribution, product‑channel alignment, customer journey transformation, or business model redesign. Strong capabilities in problem-solving, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and structured storylining. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with proven experience in client‑facing environments. Strong experience in business analysis, with familiarity in assessing distribution KPIs such as productivity, channel mix, persistency, conversion funnels, and incentive program effectiveness. Ideally, you should also have Experience working with stakeholders across the insurance ecosystem such as Distribution, Product, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Technology, and Compliance. Prior consulting experience in Financial Services, or exposure to transformation programs across agency, bancassurance, or digital distribution. Knowledge of key challenges faced by insurers today (e.g., rising acquisition costs, agent recruitment challenges, digital disruption, customer behaviour shifts) and how these can be addressed through automation, analytics, and digital tools. What working at EY offers We offer a competitive compensation package where you will be rewarded based on your performance and will be recognized for the value you bring to our business. We also offer you: Continuous learning: You'll

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