WNS - Sr Group Manager - Advanced Analytics - Capability Leader

About WNS

WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals, including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics, Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry-specific back-office and front-office processes. WNS has over 25,000 professionals across 29 delivery centers worldwide, including Costa Rica, India, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UK and US.

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Role: Insurance Research and Analytics- Advanced Analytics - Capability Leader

Position: Senior Group Manager

Location: Bangalore

Role Description:

- Growth pipeline: Support the growth pipeline process through active engagement and execution support for new opportunity areas. Ensure formulation and achievement of goals, strategy, structure, staffing, skills, style and processes are synergistic with the vertical's objectives / super ordinate goal

- Solution design support: Engage with internal stakeholders, existing and new clients to understand their requirements and translate these into a solution framework. This will entail creative thinking abilities and an ability to interpret unstructured requirements

- Project based execution support: Help incubate new engagements by executing Pilot, Proof of Concept projects to establish capabilities and credibility with existing and new clients. This may entail working either as an independent analyst or as part of a larger team to deliver on client requirements

- New capabilities development: Prepare white papers and undertaking proof of concepts on data available with the existing support teams. This will also include providing analytics support to the Operations teams

- Best practice sharing: Participate in translating industry best practices and disseminating them to different customer accounts and aid capability building for the Insurance R&A - in the areas of Advanced Analytics. This will also entail helping build domain and technical capabilities within the team and vertical through training support. Act as the Subject Matter Expert for Analytics. Must be able to bring in thought leadership and understanding of current and future trends

Knowledge and Experience

- 10-14 years Insurance analytics experience with very good exposure to various functions within an Insurance Company

- Experience in predictive modelling techniques including neural network, ensemble modeling modelling and machine learning techniques in the Insurance domain is essential

- Experience in Digital analytics (Web, Social media) and tools

- Exposure to big data platforms like Cloudera, Hadoop, etc

- Ability to undertake drill down analysis of key business problems and interpret results, generate insights and recommend strategies

- Ability to translate business problems into most efficient and effective analysis plan; execute the analysis including data pull, data preparation and build statistical models using SAS / R /other statistical tools

- Ability to identify, evaluate and recommend latest technology platforms in Analytics

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to manage large teams

- Conceptual, analytical & tactical thinking, strategic thought process

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop strong working relationships and effectively influence all levels of business stakeholders

- Ability to mentor junior resources on methodologies and industry best practices of various advanced analytics solutions

- Ability to naturally assume ownership of initiatives, requiring minimal supervision to consistently deliver outstanding results

- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across different geographies. Familiar with data sets and challenges in the US & Europe markets