Activus are a part of the wider Cegedim group, a global technology and services company specialising in the healthcare field, which generated revenue of €494 million in 2014.

The Cegedim group has more than 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry and employs 3,500 people in 11 countries worldwide

Activus are a leading worldwide supplier of application software and implementation services to the medical insurance, protection insurance and assistance markets. Formed in 1992 and have grown significantly over the last 5 years to became part of the Cegedim Group of companies in July 2015

Activus are a non-hierarchical company that prides itself on providing a friendly can-do culture where hard work and talent is recognised and rewarded. We occupy a central Bristol location

Working as part of a joint Activus/client team, this is a home based role, but is client facing and involves extensive working on client sites. As a Functional Implementation Consultant you’ll help our customers to capture/transform their business processes and configure our software accordingly.

-   Gain proficiency and understanding of the Activus software systems and functions 

-   Customer requirements gathering and documenting current or ‘as is’ business processes

-   Leading process fitting workshops at the customers site

-   Configuring our software to support the client ‘to-be’ business process and capturing any enhancements

-   Working with our development/QA teams to support enhancement design and testing ensuring business requirements are met

-   Supporting our clients through the full system implementation lifecycle and beyond into ‘business as usual’ operations

-   Working with technical consultants to provide functional context to system interfaces/solution architecture

-   Travelling to client sites in the UK and extensive travel internationally (including USA, Africa and China)

-   Pro-actively communicating with the Activus project and customer

-   Providing customer training on our software

-   The candidate will likely hold a relevant degree or have relevant experience in a software environment.

-   Preferred candidates will have the confidence, personality and communication skills to be able to deliver effective presentations and run workshops both internally and to our clients

-   You will be able to demonstrate practical experience of the following skills/experience, preferably in the financial services or insurance industry

-   Minimum 3 years project experience of full lifecycle software implementation 

-   Business analysis and report writing skills

-   Driven and enthusiastic with a ‘can-do’ attitude to get the job done in a practical and pragmatic fashion whilst keeping key stakeholders ‘on side’

-   Experience with Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

-   Proven written and oral communications skills and strong interpersonal skills that can be executed credibly to inspire confidence in you

-   A strong problem solver with a pragmatic and tenacious attitude to seek out resolutions; ability to see challenges from both a customer’s perspective and from an Activus perspective and to manage appropriately

-   Happy working as part of a team, and also capable of working independently

-   Confidence and experience to be able to work with, support and influence people in all areas of a project. e.g. key stakeholders, developers, client SMEs

-   Consulting experience working with external customers

-   Experience of business process redesign projects

-   Some experience with SQL

-   Business level proficiency of Mandarin/French or any other European language