AVP- Management Consultant

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Management Consultant with 10+ years of experience to join our growing practice as a client-facing advisor and solution leader. You will shape and sell data and cloud transformation programs, lead executive conversations, and guide engagements from first pitch through successful delivery.

This is a hybrid role across consulting, pre-sales and delivery oversight. You will represent EXL in front of our clients, data and technology leaders, and be a credible voice on both insurance and data engineering.

What You Will Work On

Our programs for insurance clients span:

• Data modernization: enterprise data warehouse and data lake transformation, legacy-to-cloud migration.
• Data mart development: line-of-business and domain data marts for underwriting, claims, policy, finance and actuarial use cases.
• Cloud modernization: re-platforming data estates on modern cloud data platforms
• Data governance: data quality, lineage, cataloguing, ownership and regulatory readiness.
• BI acceleration: faster, trusted self-service analytics and reporting for business users.
• Agentic AI acceleration: identifying, designing and deploying AI-enabled use cases on a governed data foundation.

Key Responsibilities

Client advisory and consulting

• Act as trusted advisor to client stakeholders: understand business objectives, assess current-state data maturity, and define target-state strategy and roadmaps.
• Facilitate executive workshops and discovery sessions; translate business needs into clear, actionable data and AI programs.
• Build and deliver executive-level presentations, proposals and steering committee updates that are crisp, insight-led and decision-oriented.

Pre-sales and business development

• Lead and support client pitches, orals and proposal responses, including solution storyline, approach, scope, estimates and pricing inputs.
• Identify and grow opportunities within existing accounts and develop new relationships in the insurance market.
• Partner with EXL sales, delivery and technology leaders to build repeatable offerings, accelerators and points of view.

Delivery oversight and engagement leadership

• Provide solution and quality leadership across engagements, working with delivery leads and engineering teams to keep programs on scope, schedule and budget.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations; ensure governance and architectural alignment.
• Convert successful delivery into client references and follow-on work.

Brand and practice building

• Represent the EXL brand with professionalism and credibility in every client and industry interaction.
• Contribute to thought leadership, internal capability building and mentoring of consultants and analysts.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of experience in management or technology consulting with a focus on data and analytics and AI ideally within insurance.
• Good understanding of data engineering and modern data architecture: data warehouses and lakes,Medalian architecture, data marts, ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, data governance and BI.
• Proven ability to build and present executive-level decks and to hold credible conversations with senior client leaders.
• Pre-sales experience contributing to proposals, solutioning, estimation and client pitches.
• Experience managing client relationships and leading cross-functional delivery teams.
• Exceptional structured problem-solving, storytelling and written and verbal communication.

Preferred

• Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance domain experience across policy, claims, underwriting or specialty lines.
• A track record in premium consulting environments, with strong engagement-leadership discipline and polish in client-facing settings.
• Exposure to AI / Agentic AI use cases in insurance and to AI…