Director – Technology Consulting

Company: Willis Towers Watson
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Location: Reigate
Job Description:

Overview

Senior leadership role shaping, selling and delivering technology-enabled insurance transformations. You will bridge insurance domain expertise with technology delivery and business development to run large, multi-workstream programmes across underwriting, claims, finance and risk. You’ll engage C-suite audiences, shape market propositions, and ensure value realization through modern platforms, data and AI-driven approaches. Your impact spans proposition development, delivery governance, and realising benefits at scale within a global context.

Pay / Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave
  • private healthcare
  • group income protection
  • defined contribution pension with up to 10% company match
  • hybrid working
  • volunteer day

Responsibilities

  • Lead and structure pre-sales transformations for insurance clients, articulating value, approach, cost and ROI.
  • Talk credibly with C-suite stakeholders on governance, delivery setup and outcomes of technology programmes.
  • Develop compelling proposals and solution narratives for multi-million-pound pursuits from proposition to mobilisation.
  • Provide delivery leadership across complex insurance transformation programmes, shaping operating models, roadmaps, resourcing and governance.
  • Guide cross-functional teams through delivery and proactively address risks and dependencies.
  • Ensure security, resilience, scalability and compliance while realising benefits.
  • Evolve insurance technology propositions by embedding data, AI and modern platforms into market offerings.
  • Collaborate with insurance and technology leaders to create differentiated, outcome-led propositions.
  • Apply delivery experience to set up and de-risk transformation programmes across underwriting, claims, actuarial, finance and risk.

Key requirements

  • Insurance domain knowledge across core domains (Underwriting, Claims, Pricing, Actuarial and Reserving, Capital Modelling, Finance and Regulatory Reporting)
  • Track record delivering end-to-end insurance technology and AI transformation programmes
  • Delivery leadership across insurance platforms and modernisation/digital transformation
  • Fluency with Agile, hybrid and waterfall delivery models and selecting the right approach
  • Experience managing vendors, SI partners and multi-supplier environments
  • Commercial and consulting acumen across full lifecycle of proposition, pre-sales and delivery
  • Credibility as a trusted adviser to CIOs and senior executives
  • Broad technology grounding (cloud platforms, APIs, data, AI) with hands-on capability
  • Gravitas and executive presence
  • Strategic and practical leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Core insurance/data platforms
  • API-led integration

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Posted: October 1st, 2026