Product SME – Pricing Solutions

Job Description
Sequel Business Solutions
, headquartered in The City of London, has grown from being a trusted consultancy to becoming a leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist. We employ talented insurance and technical experts who understand the market and our clients' business. Now, as part of the Verisk Analytics family, that legacy is even stronger. Aligning with the world's leading data analytics company extends our ability to help clients overcome the toughest challenges.

With the 2018 acquisition of Moore Stephens Rulebook, Sequel Business Solutions has further enhanced its capabilities in the delivery of London Market-focused business intelligence and data analytics software. Together we deliver a powerful suite of software which provides full end-to-end management of all insurance and reinsurance business.

Augmented by award-winning Rulebook's proprietary pricing and management information engines, Sequel Business Solutions offers exciting scope for accelerated career development.

Role Purpose
To successfully design, document and deliver Sequel Rulebook solutions for our clients, to scope, to budget, on time and to optimal quality standards.

To provide thought leadership to the Rulebook team, and to influence the direction of our client delivery function. To support the Director of Pricing solutions with achieving the strategic targets.

Responsibilities
Client Delivery (external perspective)

• Consult with clients to analyse and evaluate their needs, translating these into business and functional requirements and user stories. This may be undertaken in a number of ways, as is appropriate, such as:

• Structured workshops

• 121 interviews
• Group meetings

• Ad-hoc, informal discussions

• Developing technical designs and solutions for Rulebook platform and product implementations, ensuring best practice at all times.

• To work with clients to optimise their benefit realisation and cost management.

• Supporting clients' wider project, programme and portfolio delivery activity, to ensure the best possible adoption of Rulebook solutions, this might involve supporting and informing:

• Business Case Development and opportunity identification

• Blueprint design and target 'future state' design
• Business Process Mapping and re-engineering

• User Acceptance Testing support

• Supporting pre-sales proof of concept and demo work, to communicate Rulebook features and benefits to existing and new clients.

• Attend client pre-sales sessions to provide the technical and business subject matter expertise, and contribute to the business case proposal for the engagement.
• Support Account Management activity to develop and maintain the credible profile of Rulebook and Sequel.
• Developing a climate of trust and integrity, building professional credibility and strong relationships with clients and their management and project teams.
• Managing challenges and possible conflicts with absolute professionalism.

Technical Delivery (internal perspective)

• Translating client business and functional needs into Rulebook solutions.
• Developing and deploying appropriate software development methodologies, in line with best practice, from pre-analysis (discovery), to post-implementation review and continuous improvement.
• Preparation for client engagements, including such activities as workshop planning, resource planning and team briefing.
• Informing the creation of project Statements of Works, with pre-sales, account management, project managers and the Head of Delivery.
• Working with pre-sales, account management and project teams to inform credible and accurate project estimates.
• The production, management, review and assurance of project documentation and products, through drafting and internal reviews, to client approval, testing and approval.
• Maintain an awareness of 'continuous improvement' during engagements and ensure project delivery has this at its heart.
• Interfacing with the core Rulebook and Sequel product teams to inform Product Roadmap lifecycle development.

Team Management

• Lead the team of Product SMEs to identify the strategic direction of configuration, and to seek out ways to improve client delivery.
• Leading and supporting a Rulebook configuration team, resolving any problems, and maintaining morale by doing so with integrity.

• All performance management for team-members to develop technical and behavioural capability, incl.

• Regular reviews

• Objective setting: development, agreement and monitoring
• Formal and informal feedback

• Coordination and support of technical training, coaching and mentoring

• Allocation and management of work-packages across the team, to optimise efficiency and effectiveness.

• Chair team meetings, internal solution development meetings and stand-ups, maintaining accurate logs of output to continuously improve team and departmental capability and performance.
• Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.

Essential
QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree Level or equivalent.
• Insurance Industry experience.
• Proven track record of gathering and analysing client requirements and developing specifications.
• Experience of working in a software development lifecycle in a range of methodologies (waterfall, agile, etc.).
• Highly literate and numerate.

Desirable

• Specific London Market insurance domain knowledge is advantageous.
• Experience of working within the Insurance Market in an underwriting/actuarial role.
• A degree education in an IT discipline may be helpful, but is not essential.
• Exposure to actuarial and pricing functions and models.
• Knowledge of development toolsets, e.g.

Attributes

• Commercially-minded with strong communication, influencing and presentation skills.
• Tenacious, with good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good time-management skills, demonstrating the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines on multiple workstreams.
• Demonstrates integrity to clients and team-members, with gravitas, to immediately build credibility.
• Resilient.

About Us
For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland. We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority. In addition to our Great Place to Work Certification, we've been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World's Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We're 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

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