Saumya.

Saumya S.

Healthcare & Insurance Strategy·Abu Dhabi
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About

Nine years advising governments and senior executives on healthcare and insurance transformation across the Middle East, India, and Europe.

Strategy professional with 9+ years of consulting and industry experience in operations optimization, workforce strategy, and digital enablement.

HEC Paris MBA. Associate of the Institute of Actuaries, top 5% globally. Currently with Kearney in the UAE.

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YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Actuarial exams passed
EXPERIENCE

From technical foundations to strategic management.

A nine-year progression from actuarial sciences to executive advisory, across seven countries.

2016 — 2019
India · United Kingdom

Earned Associate of the Institute of Actuaries during this period- top 5% globally, 12 exams passed.

Insurance · Risk Analytics

Swiss Re

Risk Analyst → Senior Risk Analyst
  • Supported CEO and senior leadership on the European launch of a new health insurance product, contributing to market sizing, competitor benchmarking and regulatory analysis for a ~€250M opportunity
  • Strengthened enterprise risk governance by redesigning and automating core risk & regulatory reporting across Canada, Europe and the UK, reducing reporting cycle time by 50% and improving reporting accuracy by 15%
2019 — 2021
India · United Kingdom
Healthcare · Health Insurance

Ernst & Young

Senior Consultant
  • Led market entry & GTM strategy for a VC-backed, technology-driven healthcare insurance startup in India- market sizing, regulatory landscape, value proposition and operating-model design
  • Defined target operating model for a 15-hospital private healthcare group, redesigning data flows, governance and KPIs across clinical, operational and financial domains; enabled EMR, telehealth and patient-analytics rollout, lifting patient satisfaction by ~20%
  • Advised an Indian state government on a digital health insurance scheme, including beneficiary segmentation, actuarial sustainability and pricing analysis enabling coverage for 1,200+ gig-economy workers via $500K corpus
2021 — 2022
Jouy-en-Josas, France

Member, The Executive Committee; Recipient of HEC Excellence Scholarship (top 20  percentile)

Strategy · Leadership

HEC Paris

MBA · Specialization in Strategy · GPA 3.81 / 4
  • Vice President of the Healthcare and Product Management Club
  • One-year leadership and mentorship program through The Executive Committee
2022
Paris, France
InsurTech · Pet Insurance

Luko

Product Consultant · Series-B InsurTech ($260M valuation, 230+ employees)
  • Supported launch and commercialization of a digital pet insurance product- led product modeling and go-to-market across digital channels and aggregator platforms
  • Doubled annual revenue to $6.5M
  • Scaled French business to 40K+ customers
2023 — Present
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Anchored in healthcare and public-sector strategy across the GCC — spanning Data & AI, operating models, workforce and tech foresight.

Healthcare · GCC Public Sector

Kearney Current

Associate
  • Led design of an enterprise Data & AI strategy and target operating model for a GCC semi-government healthcare organization- ~30 prioritized use cases across care delivery, operations and population health, impacting ~2M patient records with ~15–20% efficiency potential
  • Drove TOM design for an integrated health network across acute, primary and long-term care- consolidated 4 fragmented operating entities into a unified shared-services model; $18M synergy savings; reporting cycle 6 weeks → 2 weeks
  • Advised a GCC government health authority on operations redesign- patient flow and capacity planning, 15% wait-time reduction, $12M annual savings
  • Tech foresight & scenario analysis for a GCC tech regulatory ministry aligned with KSA Vision 2030- 60+ trends assessed, 10 priorities including three healthcare-focused themes
  • Workforce localization analytics for a central GCC HR ministry- 12M+ labor records, 30+ policy initiatives, 15% improvement in localization rates
  • Centralized tech portal for a UAE national research org- 50+ executive dashboards, 100+ products, 9 Research Centers

Tools, languages and credentials.

Toolkit

Alteryx SQL Power BI Tableau JIRA Executive Dashboards Foresight & Scenario Analysis KPI Frameworks Operating Models Workforce Strategy

Languages

HindiNative
EnglishProficient
FrenchIntermediate

Credentials

Associate of the Institute of Actuaries
Institute & Faculty of Actuaries, UK · Top 5% globally · 12 exams passed
MBA, Strategy
HEC Paris · GPA 3.81 / 4.00 · The Executive Committee
B.A. (Hons) Economics
Hindu College, University of Delhi
Contact

Let's talk strategy.

Email
[email protected]
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/saumya-k-s
Location
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Saumya S. · Abu Dhabi, UAE