We run your operations with tech and talent so you can run faster, scale smarter, lead stronger.

Managed services

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40%

improvement in average call handling time.

Case study: Ramsay Health Care

30%

efficiency improvement to insurance claims handling process.

Case study: Chester Street Holdings

£1bn+

in loans issued under the Future Fund scheme.

Case study: British Business Bank


Smarter operations lead to stronger returns.

Combining industry insight, technology and AI-powered delivery, our managed services help you achieve your ambitions by delivering so much more than outsourcing.

We bring the technology and the capabilities, skills and passion of our people to run and transform your business functions end-to-end, working in partnership with you and your teams – enabling you to cut costs, unlock reinvestment and realise value faster.

67%

of top-performing companies use managed services to strengthen performance and fill critical gaps.
 

Source: Global Advisory Thought Leadership Accelerator


How we work together

Co-creating your solutions

We bring together our industry and domain specialists and solution architects with your teams to design and build solutions with you. We curate the right technology solutions by optimising your existing assets and introducing new leading edge and established technologies from our ecosystem of alliances.

Flexible and agile delivery

We build the right team of specialists for every, individual solution - run from our offices, or from yours. We continually invest in training and development with 10,000+ hours a month of domain, expert-led training programmes.

Right technology, real results

In addition to our strong technology alliances, we have built our own Advanced Research Centre, collaborating with universities to uncover next-generation technology and products, to curate the right technology for you.

Delivering at speed

We can deploy our teams at speed when you need them most, or transform and continue to run a service long-term.

Sharing risk - and success

Our commercial arrangements reward the value and outcomes we deliver. And our flexible and agile contracts mean you are always in control and able to up-and down-scale capacity as you need it.

Your lasting legacy

We challenge thinking, introduce new ways of working and develop your own teams to make them stronger for the long-term and deliver sustained outcomes.

Our client stories

Building change excellence: L&G and PwC’s managed service collaboration

How we collaborated with L&G to establish and run its change and transformation managed service capability

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Driving operational excellence with West Midlands Pension Fund

Our pensions consulting and managed services teams provided strategic advice supporting both short and long-term delivery capability, to meet evolving customer needs and compliance with industry regulations.

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NFU Mutual: Transforming insurance in the digital age

Discover how PwC are running Cloud and Application Evolution Services on Microsoft Azure for the UK insurer NFU Mutual.

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Banking on the UK’s future

When the government came to us to help them set up the Future Fund, they thought it would take months. We were able to get it up and running in a matter of weeks.

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Making bold claims in insurance

We built a new platform for Chester Street and moved 65 staff onto it in just eight weeks. The result is a digitised, integrated claims handling process that’s 30% more efficient.

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Boosting the health of a patient call centre

With a pandemic backlog overwhelming their call centre, Ramsay Health Care needed help fast. We picked up the phone to 29,000 patients and reinvigorated processes for an improved experience.

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Explore our managed services

Business outcome managed services

Customer managed services
Get services that manage customer-facing operations such as onboarding, case handling, complaints resolution, and digital service centres. These are typically high-volume, workflow-driven processes that benefit from automation and AI to improve client experience and efficiency. 

Tax managed services
Get connected tax compliance, accounting services, and payroll tax. This includes Pillar 2 reporting, statutory accounts, and real-time filing solutions with our alliance technology.

Finance managed services
Full-spectrum finance function outsourcing and transformation gives you statutory reporting, accounts payable/receivable, consolidation, ERP add-ons, and cash cycle optimisation.

Risk and regulatory managed services

Financial crime managed services
Get specialised KYC, AML, sanctions, and transaction monitoring services delivered at scale. Anchored in long-term managed operations our services provide regulatory compliance capacity for banks, asset managers, and other financial services firms.

Cyber managed services
Get managed detection, response, and cyber monitoring services delivered through platforms including Microsoft Sentinel or Google Chronicle. These services provide always-on security operations, portfolio rationalisation, and incident response extensions.

Enterprise risk and compliance
Benefit from ongoing services that manage compliance programmes, controls testing, risk monitoring, and regulatory obligations. This spans “small c” compliance (controls execution, SOX, operational risk) and “big C” compliance (industry-specific regulatory monitoring), delivered through multi-year annuity contracts.

Technology managed services

Application evolution services
These services support you after major technology implementations, ensuring platforms like Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics continue to evolve, run efficiently, and integrate with AI and data capabilities. It’s the “run and evolve” layer that locks in long-term transformation value.

Bundled services

If you need support across several functions, we can combine our services - including HR, procurement, supply chain and legal - into a single, streamlined managed service tailored to your organisation. We offer the flexibility to bundle capabilities into integrated, end‑to‑end solutions that work seamlessly alongside your teams and systems.

Working with government and the public sector

Our managed services for government and public sector organisations, offered under the RM6295 Outsourced Services Framework, provide access to transformational business process solutions.

By combining operational expertise, service management and enabling technology to support the delivery of complex, high-volume and regulated services, we partner with government and public sector organisations to run and transform core services - balancing day-to-day operations with continuous improvement and targeted transformation.

We offer people, technology and transformational advisory services in the following areas:

Making technology work for you

Our ecosystem of technology partners spans the biggest established names through to bespoke and industry-specific solutions, alongside our own proprietary tech. And because we know how to embed these seamlessly into your people and operating environment, you see results faster.

Contact us

Michael Gibbons

Michael Gibbons

UK Managed Services Leader, PwC United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)7841 569523

Kieragh Nelson

Kieragh Nelson

Partner, Managed Services, PwC United Kingdom

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