Underwriting Analytics and Data Standards Manager - data science with underwriting analytics background needed!

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £95,000

Annual bonus up to 25% of salary

Pension up to 20%

28 days annual leave + holidays

Private medical insurance

Job summary

NFU Mutual seeks an analytical and strategic leader to establish and head a new underwriting analytics team at its Tiddington Head Office near Stratford-upon-Avon. You will define data standards, governance and controls to enable trusted underwriting data and robust analytics.

You will lead up to four colleagues, drive the strategic direction for underwriting analytics, and partner with stakeholders across underwriting, pricing, risk and data functions to improve portfolio insights and decision

Qualifications

• Analytical and strategic leadership required.
• Advanced training or experience in analytics, data governance, or related areas.
• Professional qualification in underwriting, analytics, data management or financial services preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a newly created underwriting analytics team and set strategy and standards.
• Embed data governance, controls and data ownership across underwriting data.
• Influence enterprise-wide analytics decisions and support portfolio management decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across underwriting, pricing, risk and data functions.

Skills

Data science

Underwriting analytics

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Underwriting Analytics and Data Standards Manager:

• Establish and lead a newly created underwriting analytics team, shaping capability, standards and strategy across NFU Mutual
• Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide data and analytics decisions
• Enjoy hybrid working, spending 20% of your time from our Stratford Upon Avon offices and up to 80% home-working

About the role:

As Underwriting Analytics and Data Standards Manager, you'll lead the development of underwriting analytics capabilities across NFU Mutual while defining and embedding the data standards, controls and governance required to support trusted, consistent and scalable underwriting data. You'll strengthen underwriting decision making through robust analytics, making credible challenges, and taking clear data ownership.

Leading a team of up to four colleagues, including both existing specialists and new hires, you'll establish and grow a newly formed function. You'll set the strategic direction for underwriting analytics, oversee data standards and governance, support model performance, and develop insight that improves portfolio management, trading decisions and analytical maturity.

Working closely with stakeholders across Underwriting, Pricing, Risk, Actuarial, Customer Data Science, Enterprise Data, Technology and Architecture, you'll ensure underwriting priorities are represented across enterprise initiatives while helping shape the future direction of data and analytics across the business.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

About you:

You are an analytical and strategic leader who enjoys solving complex challenges and using data to influence better business decisions. You communicate confidently with a wide range of stakeholders, provide constructive challenge, and bring strong critical thinking and decision making skills. With proven leadership capability, you develop high performing teams through coaching and mentoring, take accountability for outcomes, and build trusted relationships across the business.

To join NFU Mutual, you'll also bring:

• A background in data science, with a focus in underwriting analytics
• Advanced training, certification or extensive practical experience in analytics, data science, data governance, model risk or data management
• Training or awareness in regulatory compliance, data governance, model governance, risk management or operational control frameworks relevant to underwriting and pricing decision making
• Relevant professional insurance, underwriting, analytics, data management or financial services qualification, or equivalent practical experience

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards:

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary – of up to £95,000
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual:

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as "a great place to work".

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of "Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK", and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.