Equity Partner / Practice Lead – Insurance Consulting

Equity Partner / Practice Lead – Insurance Consulting

Location: Paris, France

Level: Equity Partner / Practice Lead

Language: French

Opportunity: Leadership of the Insurance Consulting Practice

The Opportunity

We are working with a dynamic global management and technology consulting firm making significant investment in its Insurance business in France.

The firm is looking for an Equity Partner to lead its Insurance Consulting practice, taking responsibility for the overall development of the sector across its different consulting capabilities.

This is broader than a specialist Insurance Risk role.

The successful individual will help shape the firm's entire approach to the Insurance market across areas including:

• Risk & Regulatory
• Business Transformation
• Strategy
• CFO & Finance Transformation
• People & HR Transformation
• Operations
• Data & AI
• Technology & Automation

You do not need to be the technical specialist across every one of these areas.

The critical requirement is that you understand the Insurance industry, have the senior relationships and commercial credibility to identify opportunities across these topics, and can bring the appropriate specialists into the client when required.

This is a significant Equity Partner position with genuine responsibility for shaping the future of the business.

Why This Opportunity?

The firm offers a different environment from many traditional large consulting organisations.

Global Platform

You will operate as part of a genuinely international consulting business, working with colleagues and clients across multiple markets.

Entrepreneurial Freedom

The organisation operates with flat hierarchies and limited bureaucracy, giving senior leaders significant freedom to develop clients, propositions and new ideas.

Collaborative Culture

The culture is deliberately non-elbow, with collaboration encouraged across practices and geographies rather than individuals competing internally for ownership of clients and revenue.

Genuine Wealth Creation

This is an Equity Partner opportunity, allowing senior leaders to participate financially in the value they help create.

The opportunity combines an excellent compensation package with meaningful long-term wealth creation potential.

Existing Platform

You will not be starting from zero.

There is already a strong team and existing capabilities within the business.

The opportunity is to provide the senior leadership, commercial direction and market presence required to take the Insurance practice to the next level.

A Major Commitment to AI

One of the most distinctive aspects of the firm is its commitment to Artificial Intelligence and automation.

Rather than treating AI simply as another consulting proposition, the firm is actively embedding AI into how consulting is delivered and how clients operate.

It has invested in its own bespoke AI and automation products, including solutions relevant to the Insurance industry.

The ambition is to be at the forefront of how AI changes:

• Insurance operations
• Risk
• Finance
• Customer experience
• Underwriting
• Claims
• Data
• Productivity
• Consulting delivery itself

The Insurance Practice Lead will have the opportunity to combine traditional Insurance consulting with these new capabilities to create differentiated propositions for clients.

The Role

As Insurance Practice Lead, you will take responsibility for developing the firm's overall Insurance business in France.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing senior relationships with major French insurers.
• Identifying and originating significant consulting opportunities.
• Developing the strategic direction of the Insurance practice.
• Connecting Insurance clients with specialists across Risk, Strategy, Finance, HR, Technology, Data and AI.
• Building new propositions around emerging client requirements.
• Leading major client engagements and senior executive relationships.
• Developing and mentoring the existing Insurance consulting team.
• Recruiting additional senior talent as the practice grows.
• Collaborating with international Partners and practices.
• Helping position the firm as a major challenger within the French Insurance consulting market.

Commercial Leadership Is Critical

This is fundamentally a commercial leadership role.

We are therefore looking for someone with a strong track record of:

• Personally originating consulting business.
• Developing major Insurance accounts.
• Building relationships with C-suite executives.
• Creating opportunities rather than simply delivering existing projects.
• Cross-selling multiple consulting capabilities.
• Developing propositions and taking them to market.
• Building and growing consulting teams.

Candidates should be comfortable discussing their personal commercial performance, client relationships, revenue generation and the opportunities they believe they could develop.

Who We Are Looking For

You will currently be operating at Partner, Equity Partner, Managing Director or equivalent senior leadership level within a management consultancy, technology consultancy, Big Four firm or specialist Insurance consulting organisation.

You should have:

• Deep knowledge of the French Insurance market.
• Strong relationships with major French insurers and senior executives.
• A proven consulting sales and business development track record.
• The ability to understand client requirements across multiple consulting disciplines.
• Experience leading senior consulting teams.
• Strong entrepreneurial instincts.
• An interest in AI, technology and the future of consulting.
• The ability to operate effectively within an international organisation.
• A highly collaborative leadership style.
• Fluent French

You do not need to be the leading technical expert in Risk, Finance Transformation, HR, Strategy, Data and Technology simultaneously.

Instead, you should be capable of sitting with the CEO, CFO, CRO, COO or other senior Insurance executives, understanding their strategic priorities and bringing together the right capabilities to solve them.

Insurance Experience

We are open to senior leaders with experience across areas such as:

• Property & Casualty
• Life Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Reinsurance
• Commercial & Specialty Insurance
• Insurance Operations
• Insurance Risk
• Insurance Technology
• Insurance Transformation

Broad sector experience is attractive, but commercial strength, senior client relationships and leadership capability are more important than being a technical specialist across every Insurance domain.

The Profile

The ideal person is an Insurance entrepreneur within consulting.

Someone who understands the market.

Someone who knows the major clients.

Someone who can originate significant business.

Someone who can connect different capabilities across the organisation.

And someone who wants the autonomy and financial participation that comes from helping build a major consulting practice.

This is not simply another Partner position within an established hierarchy.

It is an opportunity to shape the future of an Insurance Consulting business, build a significant team and participate directly in the value created.

All discussions will be handled in complete confidence.