VP, Insurance Leader
About The Position
Capgemini Invent is seeking an Insurance Leader to own and grow its North American insurance transformation agenda. The role combines client relationship leadership, commercial leadership, people leadership, and delivery accountability. The leader will work with C-suite executives at large insurers to connect strategy to execution across complex, multi-year transformation programs, and will sit on the North America Financial Services leadership team with influence over investment priorities. The position focuses on growing priority insurance accounts, building executive relationships, originating and winning business, and connecting Capgemini Invent offerings with the broader Capgemini ecosystem. The role also sponsors major programs, remains accountable for quality, risk, commercial outcomes, and client value, and advises client leaders on trade-offs, sequencing, and risk. The successful candidate will build the insurance practice by recruiting, coaching, and promoting future leaders; developing diverse, high-performing teams; and creating market-facing points of view, reusable assets, and propositions. Potential client work includes AI and intelligent operations, platform modernization, operating-model and cost transformation, customer and digital transformation, and risk, regulatory, and financial-integrity initiatives. The role is onsite in New York, with Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and San Francisco identified as possible hub locations.
Requirements
- Track record at a recognized consultancy leading a relationship with a large Financial Services client and originating, selling, and delivering large-scale transformation.
- Existing relationships with senior executives at major insurers operating in the United States.
- Experience overseeing multi-workstream, multivendor programs.
- Success operating in complex, matrixed organizations and bringing peers together to sell and deliver.
- Executive presence and credibility to hold peer-level conversations across all levels of a client organization.
- Commercially driven, with a passion for building and scaling client relationships.
- Confident in content and collaborative and empathetic in style.
- Relentless focus on outcomes, value realization, and client impact.
- Motivated to coach, develop, and inspire diverse teams.
Nice To Haves
- A market-recognized point of view on insurance transformation, including AI, and a record of publishing or speaking on the subject.
- Depth across various lines of insurance business.
- Experience with Agile and DevOps delivery models.
Responsibilities
- Set strategy and investment priorities for priority insurance accounts and grow project engagements into long-term partnerships.
- Develop and deepen relationships with C-suite executives at insurance clients.
- Build and manage a commercial pipeline; lead pursuits, RFPs, and pitches; and bring in Capgemini colleagues and partners where they strengthen bids.
- Take Capgemini Invent's insurance offerings, tools, and assets to market and connect them with the wider Capgemini ecosystem.
- Sponsor large, multidisciplinary, multivendor programs and remain accountable for quality, risk, commercial outcomes, and client value realization.
- Advise client leadership on trade-offs, sequencing, and risk, including difficult decisions.
- Recruit, coach, and promote the next generation of insurance leaders and build diverse, high-performing teams.
- Publish points of view, develop repeatable assets, and shape propositions for insurance transformation.
- Contribute to proposals, pursuits, RFPs, client pitches, and industry events.
- Contribute to practice building through recruitment, talent development, offering design, and internal communities of practice.
- Develop industry points of view, whitepapers, and innovation initiatives.
- Pursue continuous learning through training, certifications, and leadership development.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including 12–25 vacation days depending on employee grade, company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave, according to policy.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
- Retirement savings plans, such as a 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Additional benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.
- May be eligible for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on position and applicable laws.
- Training, certification, and leadership development programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
