Insurance Distribution (Financial Services) Senior Manager, Business Consulting

Job description

At EY, you will have the chance to build a career as unique as you are. With the global scale, training, support and guidance, inclusive culture and technology, you will get a chance to become the best version of you. With a network that stretches across the world, you will gain unparalleled insight and experience from different geographies and sectors. So whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. The Opportunity 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 9 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 develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. EY | Shape the future with confidence EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.