Lead, Underwriting Analytics & Data Governance

Lawes Consulting Group; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawes Consulting Group is recruiting for a major UK insurer to lead underwriting analytics and data governance, defining standards and governance across underwriting data. You will drive the analytics roadmap, challenge pricing and models, and ensure regulatory compliance.

You will build MI outputs for portfolio decisions, collaborate with Pricing, Risk, Actuarial and IT, and lead a team to develop capability across underwriting communities in a complex, risk-managed environment.

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 (personal and/or commercial lines).
• Experience developing, validating, and deploying analytical models or data-driven tools into production, with governance and performance monitoring.

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.

Job description

Lawes Consulting Group is recruiting for a major UK insurer to lead underwriting analytics and data governance, defining standards and governance across underwriting data. You will drive the analytics roadmap, challenge pricing and models, and ensure regulatory compliance.

You will build MI outputs for portfolio decisions, collaborate with Pricing, Risk, Actuarial and IT, and lead a team to develop capability across underwriting communities in a complex, risk-managed environment.