Head of Underwriting Analytics & Data Governance

Lawes Consulting Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawes Consulting Group is seeking a senior leader to head underwriting analytics and data standards for a major UK insurer. You will design and deploy analytics capabilities, define data standards, controls, and governance to ensure trusted underwriting data and robust model governance.

You will lead a team, challenge pricing and modelling with statistical evidence, collaborate with Risk, Actuarial, Data, IT, and Change, and translate analytics into actionable portfolio decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading underwriting analytics and data governance within financial services.
• Strong understanding of underwriting principles, pricing decisions and portfolio management.
• Experience deploying analytical models with governance and performance monitoring.
• Ability to challenge senior pricing/modelling stakeholders with evidence-backed insights.

Responsibilities

• Sets the strategic direction and roadmap for underwriting analytics and data standards.
• Defines and embeds frameworks for analytics, model governance, and data standards.
• Owns underwriting data standards, governance, definitions, quality rules and ownership.
• Provides independent analytical challenge to pricing and modelling teams.
• Represents underwriting priorities in enterprise data/analytics strategy with cross-functional teams.
• Develops MI and analytics outputs translating into actionable portfolio decisions.
• Embeds governance and regulatory compliance across analytics and data.
• Builds analytical capability across the underwriting community.
• Leads, manages, and develops direct and indirect reports.

Skills

Underwriting analytics

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Model governance

Cross-functional leadership

Data quality

Analytical mindset

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Lawes Consulting Group is seeking a senior leader to head underwriting analytics and data standards for a major UK insurer. You will design and deploy analytics capabilities, define data standards, controls, and governance to ensure trusted underwriting data and robust model governance.

You will lead a team, challenge pricing and modelling with statistical evidence, collaborate with Risk, Actuarial, Data, IT, and Change, and translate analytics into actionable portfolio decisions.