Boston Consulting Group
Locations: Atlanta London Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do You are joining BCG's Product Agility and Delivery Center of Excellence (CoE), an 80-person global strategic capability center and critical business partner of BCG's internal Digital Product Organization (DPO). This team is comprised of business and product delivery experts with specialization in Agile, Product Management, Product Delivery, Org Optimization and AI Innovation. This team is responsible for driving high-performance delivery of product, project and experience leveraging our expertise. This team directly partners with the Digital Product teams and shares in the delivery of their outcomes. Directly, this role and team report into 'Modern Work Experience and Enablement', a function within worldwide IT. The Digital Product Organization (DPO) is a 2000+ person, cross-functional product & platform org responsible for running and continuously driving digital product capabilities and experience for all internal BCG business services (HR, Marketing, Legal, Risk, Finance, IT, etc.) and the entire BCG workforce. The DPO has over 20 Product Portfolio Families, 130+ product squads and 10 centres of excellence. This organization operates in a fully mature Agile Enterprise operating model, since its transformation in 2021. This Agile Senior Delivery Manager role, internally referred to as Global Senior Manager - Scrum Lead, is a critical and central part of our product teams. In this role, you are responsible for partnering with product leadership, organizing and managing the team's way of working, planning and managing the team's releases, and continuously optimizing the team's performance by managing key performance indicators. Individuals that succeed in this role are experienced consultants, project leaders, or team leaders who able to manage and influence senior leaders, able to plan and organize complex teams and outcomes, able to deliver high quality results, able to build strong and collaborative teams. You are highly motivated, a self-starter, able to take charge and navigate ambiguity, an innovator, a leader of people and outcomes, and a person that wants to take on tough challenges to learn, grow and make difference. This is not just a Scrum Lead role, this is a Product Delivery Leader role working in Agile. In this role, you will: Drive End-to-End Product Delivery: Oversee the delivery of product increments from planning to release. Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of initiatives, epics, features in alignment with the product roadmap. Facilitate, govern and guide planning sessions and workshops for product discovery or initiation. Support Product Teams in Prioritization and Estimations of Product features through various techniques like RICE, KANO etc. Manage dependencies across squads to ensure smooth and timely progress on product deliverables. Facilitate Release Planning and Management: Work with Product Owners and chapter leads to plan and execute product releases. Support pre and post product release activities including L2 support alignment. Improve agility in processes and tools to reduce time to market and enable faster deployments to productions. Ensure frequent releases to gather customer feedback and iterate based on insights. Ensure Quality of the deliverable is maintained by tracking Defect metrics like leakage, defect aging etc. Facilitate Risk Management: Identify risks that may impact product delivery and mitigate them proactively. Address impediments and escalate issues to stakeholders when needed. Metrics and Reporting: Track key metrics and OKRs such as velocity, lead time, cycle time, and predictability to evaluate squad's performance. Use data-driven insights to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Review with Product Owners, product performance (e.g., C-sat, adoption, product KPIs). Ensure product development efforts align with desired outcomes and results. Create dashboards and reports that provide clear visibility into product development progress for stakeholders like Portfolio leadership, sponsors etc. Coach on Agile Processes: Guide teams in adopting Agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid approach tailored to the product development context. Coach cross-functional teams, product leaders, and stakeholders to embed Agile mindsets and practices that foster adaptability, autonomy, and innovation. Act as a catalyst for organizational change by challenging the status quo and co-creating improved ways of working. Ensure Agile ceremonies (e.g., Daily scrum, retrospectives, planning) are productive and value driven. Continuous Improvement: Encourage teams to reflect on processes and identify areas for improvement during retrospectives. Encourage culture of inspect and adapt and failing fast through Sprint Reviews. Support Team Enablement: Fostering a Collaborative Environment: Build a psychologically safe space for team members to communicate openly and take ownership of their work. Promote a culture of accountability and self-organization. Encourage opportunities of Innovation and Experimentation. Partner with Product Owners: To ensure delivery aligns with the product vision and business strategy. To define and track OKRs successful completion. In backlog prioritization to maximize business value and strategic impact. To identify stakeholders and actively manage expectations. YOU'RE GOOD AT Developing relationships, engaging, and influencing stakeholders broadly, including senior leaders, to direct business outcomes Living agile culture and values and spreading your passion for them among other teams Sharing and transmitting passion and in-depth knowledge about Agile principles and are excited to embed them across the organization Applying innovative and creative thinking to solve complex problems and get things done Bringing a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs Problem solving difficult and complex problems, typically within ambiguous and non-structured settings, and transforming obstacles into big opportunities Being strategic and proactive, bringing proven team coaching experience. Communicating with empathy and influencing others broadly within your area of responsibility Being an agile role model: you work collaboratively, you show courage, you take responsibility, you have confidence, you speak out, you are creative, and you simplify Interacting with others with excellent people management skills: listening, motivating, observing, giving and receiving feedback helps individuals and teams grow Driving decision-making and exercises independent sound judgment in determining appropriate methods to drives results across squads Delivering complex products, initiatives and outcomes using Agile and Lean methods. Managing stakeholders, ensuring alignment and providing transparency. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO Identify and solve difficult and complex problems, typically within ambiguous and non-structured settings Ability to deliver complex outcomes and support achievement of objectives and key results. Proactively advise, facilitate, and coach your Squads Draw on best practices and develop creative solutions to address challenges facing Squad Use thorough analysis and strong business judgement to ensure resolution of problems that are not well defined Act as a key resource for squads' leadership in clarifying complex problems and developing customer and employee centric solutions Able to manage difficult situations and get to resolution and outcomes. Understand impact of problems and solutions on big picture and influences outcomes across squads Providing strategic consulting to business and technology stakeholders on how to achieve agility and improve time-to-value. Leading through influence, often without formal authority, by building credibility and trust at all levels of the organization. Able to develop presentations in PowerPoint and present to a larger audience. Able to engage and manage stakeholders effectively. What You'll Bring Minimum, computer science, technology, design or a relevant field (advanced degree and/or higher education preferred) 5-10+ years of client facing management consulting experience - big 4 consulting preferred . click apply for full job details
Locations: Atlanta London Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do You are joining BCG's Product Agility and Delivery Center of Excellence (CoE), an 80-person global strategic capability center and critical business partner of BCG's internal Digital Product Organization (DPO). This team is comprised of business and product delivery experts with specialization in Agile, Product Management, Product Delivery, Org Optimization and AI Innovation. This team is responsible for driving high-performance delivery of product, project and experience leveraging our expertise. This team directly partners with the Digital Product teams and shares in the delivery of their outcomes. Directly, this role and team report into 'Modern Work Experience and Enablement', a function within worldwide IT. The Digital Product Organization (DPO) is a 2000+ person, cross-functional product & platform org responsible for running and continuously driving digital product capabilities and experience for all internal BCG business services (HR, Marketing, Legal, Risk, Finance, IT, etc.) and the entire BCG workforce. The DPO has over 20 Product Portfolio Families, 130+ product squads and 10 centres of excellence. This organization operates in a fully mature Agile Enterprise operating model, since its transformation in 2021. This Agile Senior Delivery Manager role, internally referred to as Global Senior Manager - Scrum Lead, is a critical and central part of our product teams. In this role, you are responsible for partnering with product leadership, organizing and managing the team's way of working, planning and managing the team's releases, and continuously optimizing the team's performance by managing key performance indicators. Individuals that succeed in this role are experienced consultants, project leaders, or team leaders who able to manage and influence senior leaders, able to plan and organize complex teams and outcomes, able to deliver high quality results, able to build strong and collaborative teams. You are highly motivated, a self-starter, able to take charge and navigate ambiguity, an innovator, a leader of people and outcomes, and a person that wants to take on tough challenges to learn, grow and make difference. This is not just a Scrum Lead role, this is a Product Delivery Leader role working in Agile. In this role, you will: Drive End-to-End Product Delivery: Oversee the delivery of product increments from planning to release. Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of initiatives, epics, features in alignment with the product roadmap. Facilitate, govern and guide planning sessions and workshops for product discovery or initiation. Support Product Teams in Prioritization and Estimations of Product features through various techniques like RICE, KANO etc. Manage dependencies across squads to ensure smooth and timely progress on product deliverables. Facilitate Release Planning and Management: Work with Product Owners and chapter leads to plan and execute product releases. Support pre and post product release activities including L2 support alignment. Improve agility in processes and tools to reduce time to market and enable faster deployments to productions. Ensure frequent releases to gather customer feedback and iterate based on insights. Ensure Quality of the deliverable is maintained by tracking Defect metrics like leakage, defect aging etc. Facilitate Risk Management: Identify risks that may impact product delivery and mitigate them proactively. Address impediments and escalate issues to stakeholders when needed. Metrics and Reporting: Track key metrics and OKRs such as velocity, lead time, cycle time, and predictability to evaluate squad's performance. Use data-driven insights to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Review with Product Owners, product performance (e.g., C-sat, adoption, product KPIs). Ensure product development efforts align with desired outcomes and results. Create dashboards and reports that provide clear visibility into product development progress for stakeholders like Portfolio leadership, sponsors etc. Coach on Agile Processes: Guide teams in adopting Agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid approach tailored to the product development context. Coach cross-functional teams, product leaders, and stakeholders to embed Agile mindsets and practices that foster adaptability, autonomy, and innovation. Act as a catalyst for organizational change by challenging the status quo and co-creating improved ways of working. Ensure Agile ceremonies (e.g., Daily scrum, retrospectives, planning) are productive and value driven. Continuous Improvement: Encourage teams to reflect on processes and identify areas for improvement during retrospectives. Encourage culture of inspect and adapt and failing fast through Sprint Reviews. Support Team Enablement: Fostering a Collaborative Environment: Build a psychologically safe space for team members to communicate openly and take ownership of their work. Promote a culture of accountability and self-organization. Encourage opportunities of Innovation and Experimentation. Partner with Product Owners: To ensure delivery aligns with the product vision and business strategy. To define and track OKRs successful completion. In backlog prioritization to maximize business value and strategic impact. To identify stakeholders and actively manage expectations. YOU'RE GOOD AT Developing relationships, engaging, and influencing stakeholders broadly, including senior leaders, to direct business outcomes Living agile culture and values and spreading your passion for them among other teams Sharing and transmitting passion and in-depth knowledge about Agile principles and are excited to embed them across the organization Applying innovative and creative thinking to solve complex problems and get things done Bringing a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs Problem solving difficult and complex problems, typically within ambiguous and non-structured settings, and transforming obstacles into big opportunities Being strategic and proactive, bringing proven team coaching experience. Communicating with empathy and influencing others broadly within your area of responsibility Being an agile role model: you work collaboratively, you show courage, you take responsibility, you have confidence, you speak out, you are creative, and you simplify Interacting with others with excellent people management skills: listening, motivating, observing, giving and receiving feedback helps individuals and teams grow Driving decision-making and exercises independent sound judgment in determining appropriate methods to drives results across squads Delivering complex products, initiatives and outcomes using Agile and Lean methods. Managing stakeholders, ensuring alignment and providing transparency. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO Identify and solve difficult and complex problems, typically within ambiguous and non-structured settings Ability to deliver complex outcomes and support achievement of objectives and key results. Proactively advise, facilitate, and coach your Squads Draw on best practices and develop creative solutions to address challenges facing Squad Use thorough analysis and strong business judgement to ensure resolution of problems that are not well defined Act as a key resource for squads' leadership in clarifying complex problems and developing customer and employee centric solutions Able to manage difficult situations and get to resolution and outcomes. Understand impact of problems and solutions on big picture and influences outcomes across squads Providing strategic consulting to business and technology stakeholders on how to achieve agility and improve time-to-value. Leading through influence, often without formal authority, by building credibility and trust at all levels of the organization. Able to develop presentations in PowerPoint and present to a larger audience. Able to engage and manage stakeholders effectively. What You'll Bring Minimum, computer science, technology, design or a relevant field (advanced degree and/or higher education preferred) 5-10+ years of client facing management consulting experience - big 4 consulting preferred . click apply for full job details
MS Amlin
Tower Hamlets, London
Role: Senior Catastrophe Modelling Analyst - Reinsurance Location: London - Hybrid Position type: Full time, permanent About The Job What you'll spend your time doing: While there is rarely a 'typical' day as a Senior Catastrophe Modelling Analyst, this role will lead, coordinate, and provide analytic support to several key activities across classes such as: Inter-business relationships Work collaboratively with clients of Exposure Management to provide clarity, transparency and understanding Support Analysts' skills development through coaching and engagement, and provide guidance where required in addressing queries relating to the pricing of accounts and portfolio roll-up from underwriters Address and manage complex cases and queries from underwriters, and maintain and grow strong relationships with the Underwriting, Claims, Pricing and Underwriting Performance teams with ability to challenge ways of working with a continuous improvement mindset Manage the client and broker relationships with the ability to deal with enquiries in an efficient professional manner and make sound judgement calls based on value realisation Proactive build an internal and external network Analytics and modelling: Lead on at least one of the following workstreams: + Terrorism + Regulatory returns + Portfolio aggregation + Business planning + Event response + MSI + Development Conduct exposure capture and modelling of pricing, and portfolio risks, and provide peer review for risks captured and modelled by Genpact and Modelling Analysts, to support and enhance underwriters' decision making and effectively manage risk, adhering to required deadlines Oversee and guide analysis conducted by Genpact and Modelling Analysts, providing insights and managing outputs where required Lead on the delivery of proactive portfolio optimisation and other value-add modelling tasks such as such as owning model settings and adjusting models; identifying patterns and potential data anomalies, to aid underwriting decision making and risk exposure assessment and projection Strategy, Reporting and Governance Strategy and business planning + Lead the design and implementation of risk management strategies, ensuring alignment with business goals + Support business planning activities Governance: + Governance of modelling, contributing to key committees + Maintain MS Amlin's exposure Management Framework + Collate information for decision focus and execute control functions + Review and validate policy audits and reports on data quality Oversee and coordinate internal and external reporting activities for submissions and supplement analytical insights on reports created by Genpact and Modelling Analysts Compliance and Risk Management Conduct role in accordance with the Company's Business Ethics policy and all regulated entities as appropriate, role modelling behaviours and MS Amlin risk management values Assist with ensuring that the portfolio and the risks underwritten are compliant with all the relevant risk, regulatory and legal requirements, and are aligned to business goals Support the delivery of the MS Amlin Risk Function plan and wider Risk Mandate Support the ongoing development of the Risk Management Framework to assist MS Amlin in managing and mitigating risks effectively whilst ensuring consistency across the MS Amlin Group Keeping up to date with emerging risks and industry trends and the potential impact on MS Amlin and the wider Lloyd's market Monitor in conjunction with the MS Amlin's CRO, MS Amlin's risk appetites, tolerances and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) reporting these to the MS Amlin Risk & Solvency Committee and Board Utilise decision focus to collect, analyse and report on risk and control information to ensure the business is appropriately managing risks, remediation of ineffective controls is being carried out and actions are defined and appropriate Assist the development of Top Risk Assessment approach You're going to enjoy this job if you also Strive for continuous improvement and have very strong analytical capabilities; possess the ability to prioritise and realise value Have excellent communication and collaboration skills to bridge gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders Have excellent knowledge and experience of the (re)insurance Markets across the globe and how these impact our business Are an intuitive problem solver and take a natural lead in delivering solutions Have professional scepticism and an inquisitive mind Are able to work independently and can be self-guided Can influence and negotiate effectively Are highly adaptable and thrive in dynamic environments to meet evolving business needs Are proactive in your own development and lead in supporting the development of junior onshore and offshore staff members where appropriate What you'll need: For this particular role there are some important qualifications and experience we need you to have. These include: Excellent financial and commercial acumen Significant Exposure Management modelling experience Technical knowledge of (re)insurance, outward reinsurance, the general underwriting process, and underwriting performance Have a robust understanding of the Lloyd's Syndicate market and its operating principles Superior software knowledge, particularly of RMS RiskLink / RMS Risk Manager/ AIR Touchstone/ Touchstone Re/ DFA tools Excellent Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI Skills is essential Deep knowledge of data management and structures Strong understanding of coding logic and coding experience in SQL Skills in R &/or Python would be useful Ability to design, operate, interpret, and communicate quantitative reporting Experience in utilising data manipulation and visualisation tools Experience in using ArcGIS, and underwriting tools would be desirable Undergraduate degree in a related subject (Geography/ Mathematics/ STEM subjects) would be desirable CII Qualification would be desirable ICSM or vendor qualification would be beneficial What you can expect from us: As well as a competitive base salary and performance related discretionary bonus, here is a link to our employee benefits - About MS Amlin MS Amlin is a leading (re)insurer and part of the global MS&AD Group, with operations across Lloyd's of London, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. With over 120 years of experience, we support businesses facing complex and demanding risks, providing continuity in an uncertain world. Our expertise covers Property, Casualty, Marine, Crisis Management, Natural Resources and Reinsurance, backed by strong underwriting capabilities and deep sector knowledge. At the core of our claims service is TRUST - Transparency, Responsiveness, Understanding, Solution-driven thinking, and Technical expertise. This defines how we manage claims and build lasting relationships.
Role: Senior Catastrophe Modelling Analyst - Reinsurance Location: London - Hybrid Position type: Full time, permanent About The Job What you'll spend your time doing: While there is rarely a 'typical' day as a Senior Catastrophe Modelling Analyst, this role will lead, coordinate, and provide analytic support to several key activities across classes such as: Inter-business relationships Work collaboratively with clients of Exposure Management to provide clarity, transparency and understanding Support Analysts' skills development through coaching and engagement, and provide guidance where required in addressing queries relating to the pricing of accounts and portfolio roll-up from underwriters Address and manage complex cases and queries from underwriters, and maintain and grow strong relationships with the Underwriting, Claims, Pricing and Underwriting Performance teams with ability to challenge ways of working with a continuous improvement mindset Manage the client and broker relationships with the ability to deal with enquiries in an efficient professional manner and make sound judgement calls based on value realisation Proactive build an internal and external network Analytics and modelling: Lead on at least one of the following workstreams: + Terrorism + Regulatory returns + Portfolio aggregation + Business planning + Event response + MSI + Development Conduct exposure capture and modelling of pricing, and portfolio risks, and provide peer review for risks captured and modelled by Genpact and Modelling Analysts, to support and enhance underwriters' decision making and effectively manage risk, adhering to required deadlines Oversee and guide analysis conducted by Genpact and Modelling Analysts, providing insights and managing outputs where required Lead on the delivery of proactive portfolio optimisation and other value-add modelling tasks such as such as owning model settings and adjusting models; identifying patterns and potential data anomalies, to aid underwriting decision making and risk exposure assessment and projection Strategy, Reporting and Governance Strategy and business planning + Lead the design and implementation of risk management strategies, ensuring alignment with business goals + Support business planning activities Governance: + Governance of modelling, contributing to key committees + Maintain MS Amlin's exposure Management Framework + Collate information for decision focus and execute control functions + Review and validate policy audits and reports on data quality Oversee and coordinate internal and external reporting activities for submissions and supplement analytical insights on reports created by Genpact and Modelling Analysts Compliance and Risk Management Conduct role in accordance with the Company's Business Ethics policy and all regulated entities as appropriate, role modelling behaviours and MS Amlin risk management values Assist with ensuring that the portfolio and the risks underwritten are compliant with all the relevant risk, regulatory and legal requirements, and are aligned to business goals Support the delivery of the MS Amlin Risk Function plan and wider Risk Mandate Support the ongoing development of the Risk Management Framework to assist MS Amlin in managing and mitigating risks effectively whilst ensuring consistency across the MS Amlin Group Keeping up to date with emerging risks and industry trends and the potential impact on MS Amlin and the wider Lloyd's market Monitor in conjunction with the MS Amlin's CRO, MS Amlin's risk appetites, tolerances and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) reporting these to the MS Amlin Risk & Solvency Committee and Board Utilise decision focus to collect, analyse and report on risk and control information to ensure the business is appropriately managing risks, remediation of ineffective controls is being carried out and actions are defined and appropriate Assist the development of Top Risk Assessment approach You're going to enjoy this job if you also Strive for continuous improvement and have very strong analytical capabilities; possess the ability to prioritise and realise value Have excellent communication and collaboration skills to bridge gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders Have excellent knowledge and experience of the (re)insurance Markets across the globe and how these impact our business Are an intuitive problem solver and take a natural lead in delivering solutions Have professional scepticism and an inquisitive mind Are able to work independently and can be self-guided Can influence and negotiate effectively Are highly adaptable and thrive in dynamic environments to meet evolving business needs Are proactive in your own development and lead in supporting the development of junior onshore and offshore staff members where appropriate What you'll need: For this particular role there are some important qualifications and experience we need you to have. These include: Excellent financial and commercial acumen Significant Exposure Management modelling experience Technical knowledge of (re)insurance, outward reinsurance, the general underwriting process, and underwriting performance Have a robust understanding of the Lloyd's Syndicate market and its operating principles Superior software knowledge, particularly of RMS RiskLink / RMS Risk Manager/ AIR Touchstone/ Touchstone Re/ DFA tools Excellent Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI Skills is essential Deep knowledge of data management and structures Strong understanding of coding logic and coding experience in SQL Skills in R &/or Python would be useful Ability to design, operate, interpret, and communicate quantitative reporting Experience in utilising data manipulation and visualisation tools Experience in using ArcGIS, and underwriting tools would be desirable Undergraduate degree in a related subject (Geography/ Mathematics/ STEM subjects) would be desirable CII Qualification would be desirable ICSM or vendor qualification would be beneficial What you can expect from us: As well as a competitive base salary and performance related discretionary bonus, here is a link to our employee benefits - About MS Amlin MS Amlin is a leading (re)insurer and part of the global MS&AD Group, with operations across Lloyd's of London, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. With over 120 years of experience, we support businesses facing complex and demanding risks, providing continuity in an uncertain world. Our expertise covers Property, Casualty, Marine, Crisis Management, Natural Resources and Reinsurance, backed by strong underwriting capabilities and deep sector knowledge. At the core of our claims service is TRUST - Transparency, Responsiveness, Understanding, Solution-driven thinking, and Technical expertise. This defines how we manage claims and build lasting relationships.
