Director, Underwriting Analytics & Data Governance

Lawes Consulting Group; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawes Consulting Group's client, a major UK insurer, seeks a senior leader to drive underwriting analytics and data standards. You will define and embed governance, quality controls, and regulatory compliance across analytics, with a focus on trusted underwriting data and model risk management.

You will lead a team, set strategic direction, partner with Pricing, Risk, Actuarial, Enterprise Data and IT, and translate complex data into clear business recommendations for portfolio and trading

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading underwriting analytics and data standards/governance within insurance or financial services.
• Strong understanding of underwriting principles, trading decisions, and portfolio management.
• Experience developing, validating, and deploying analytical models or data-driven tools into production, with governance and performance monitoring.
• Strong experience defining data standards, definitions, quality controls and ownership models for underwriting data.
• Able to constructively challenge senior pricing, actuarial or modelling stakeholders, balancing technical evidence with commercial judgement.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, translating complex data/model outputs into clear business recommendations.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Pricing, Risk, Actuarial, Enterprise Data, IT and Change.

Responsibilities

• Sets the strategic direction and roadmap for underwriting analytics and data standards.
• Defines and embeds frameworks for analytics, model governance, and data standards, aligned to enterprise governance and regulatory expectations.
• Owns underwriting data standards and governance, common data definitions, quality rules, and control frameworks, acting as data owner.
• Provides independent analytical challenge to pricing and modelling teams, balancing statistical evidence with commercial underwriting judgement.
• Represents underwriting priorities in enterprise data/analytics strategy, working closely with Pricing, Risk, Customer Data Science, Enterprise Data, and Technology.
• Develops MI and analytical outputs that translate into clear, actionable recommendations for portfolio and trading decisions.
• Embeds governance and regulatory compliance across analytics and data, including data quality, model risk, and auditability.
• Builds analytical capability across the underwriting community.
• Leads, manages, and develops direct and indirect reports.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Analytical modelling

Underwriting knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Lawes Consulting Group's client, a major UK insurer, seeks a senior leader to drive underwriting analytics and data standards. You will define and embed governance, quality controls, and regulatory compliance across analytics, with a focus on trusted underwriting data and model risk management.

You will lead a team, set strategic direction, partner with Pricing, Risk, Actuarial, Enterprise Data and IT, and translate complex data into clear business recommendations for portfolio and trading