Group Employee Benefits Consulting Manager

About the role

The Group Employee Benefits Consulting Manager role focuses on developing new capabilities for group employee and voluntary benefits industry and delivering these to clients through delivery. This involves leveraging AI and agentic AI to transform connections between guided experiences for brokers, Bentech partners, employer groups, their employees, and group benefits operations.

Responsibilities

• Adapt methods and procedures to solve moderately complex problems creatively.
• Align work with strategic direction set by senior management.
• Exercise judgment on solutions; seek guidance for complex issues.
• Interact primarily with supervisors, including with client and Accenture leadership.
• Develop new ideas and help turn them into go-to-market offerings.
• Define methods and procedures for new assignments with guidance.
• Manage small teams or work efforts at client sites or within Accenture.
• Work as part of a team delivering client value at the intersection of business and technology.
• Perform product management and/or product owner responsibilities in the context of consulting and technology implementations.
• Travel up to 80%.

Qualifications

• 7+ years consulting or industry experience with group benefits carriers focused on technology implementations and/or business process design.
• 2+ years of experience with the group benefits value chain (quoting & proposals, onboarding and enrollment, data exchange, billing and remittance, absence and disability claims).
• 3+ years working in agile delivery, with experience as a product manager or product owner.
• Bachelor's Degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of products and benefits offered across life, absence, disability, voluntary and supplemental benefits and stop loss coverage.
• Working knowledge of key customer constituents and needs of brokers, employer groups, their employees, and ben tech partners.
• Foundational knowledge of AI and agentic AI concepts and their application in life and annuities (e.g., automation, fraud detection, predictive analytics).
• Ability to design AI-enabled workflows and collaborate with tech teams to implement solutions while ensuring compliance and ethical standards.
• Proven ability to identify, shape, sell, and lead consulting engagements in Insurance.
• Creative problem-solving skills to design innovative solutions for claims challenges.