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Sanaya Nagpal

Sanaya Nagpal

London,United Kingdom

Summary

Seasoned insurance professional with 12+ years experience across McKinsey and Deloitte, advising insurers on cost and digital transformation, market sizing, pricing, and operating model improvement. Brings knowledge of the UK insurance market, with a strong track record of helping clients shape strategic priorities, unlock productivity opportunities, and deliver practical transformation outcomes.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Director

Deloitte
London, United Kingdom
06.2026 - Current


Engagement lead | AI blueprint proposition
Led a client-specific Blueprint proposal and executive demo, translating operational and cost evidence into value-backed use cases, capability heatmaps and an actionable transformation story spanning productivity, workforce, governance and technology.


Proposal lead | Cost and productivity benchmarking for a specialty insurer
Shaped a rapid diagnostic using service-taxonomy cost mapping, FTE and expense-ratio baselines, functional productivity comparators, future-cost scenarios and executive interviews to identify value pools, target ambition and a sequenced roadmap.


Proposition development | Insurance productivity and thought leadership
Helped build Deloitte’s insurance productivity proposition through competitor analysis, benchmarking strategy, data-model review and a market-facing point of view connecting cost optimisation, AI-enabled workflow redesign and sustainable P&L impact.

Expert

McKinsey & Company
02.2016 - 05.2026

· Insurance strategy and transformation lead | Global insurer engagements
Advised insurers globally, with a particular focus on Europe and the UK, across diligence, transformation, market growth and strategic ambition-setting.

· Cost benchmarking lead | Functional productivity and ambition setting
Defined strategic ambitions for insurers through comprehensive cost benchmarking across functions, helping leadership teams identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities.

· Pricing excellence contributor | Personal lines insurance
Contributed to multiple studies and proposals focused on pricing excellence for personal lines insurers across Europe and the UK.

· Proposition development | Pricing maturity and scale economics
Built new offerings to assess insurers’ pricing maturity across geographies, including analysis of how insurer size influences cost ratios and profitability.

· Growth strategy lead | US market entry
Developed a market entry and growth strategy for an insurance client targeting expansion into the US market.

· Thought leadership | Insurance cost advantage and scale
Co-authored McKinsey articles on the cost advantages of direct insurers and the role of scale in insurance performance.

· Stakeholder management | Senior leadership and vendor partners
Managed weekly senior leader meetings and vendor partner discussions to support delivery alignment and decision-making.

Consultant

Deloitte Consulting
06.2014 - 02.2016

· Analytics platform development | Deloitte Analytics Platform
Developed the Deloitte Analytics Platform for the Center of Excellence team, supporting internal audit analytics and scalable data-led risk solutions.

· Financial crime analytics | AML and fraud detection
Designed and implemented a SAS-based solution to strengthen anti-money laundering and fraud detection capabilities.

· Risk and audit analytics | BFSI clients
Evaluated risk areas, developed internal audit processes, and analysed data visualisations to support stronger decision-making for BFSI clients.

· Brokerage analytics | Securities gains and losses
Supported a leading brokerage client by analysing gains and losses across securities and providing insights across multiple buy-and-sell scenarios.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
India
06-2014

Bachelor of Technology -

Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering
India
06-2012

Skills

  • Insurance domain expertise
  • Insurance cost and productivity
  • Insurance pricing
  • Market sizing
  • Business transformation
  • Insurance value chains
  • Growth strategy
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Direct insurers
  • Scale analysis

Technical skills

  • Critical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Analytical skills
  • Business relationship management

Technical skills

  • SAS
  • SQL
  • Tableau
  • Alteryx
  • SPSS
  • MS Powepoint
  • MS Excel (VBA)

Interests

  • Travelling
  • Deltiology
  • Cooking
  • OTT & Movies

Timeline

Associate Director

Deloitte
06.2026 - Current

Expert

McKinsey & Company
02.2016 - 05.2026

Consultant

Deloitte Consulting
06.2014 - 02.2016

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management

Bachelor of Technology -

Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering
Sanaya Nagpal