Director, Data Governance & Analytics

AF Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 122,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

AF Group is seeking a Manager, Data Governance & Analytics to lead the Center of Excellence and drive the analytics program enterprise-wide. The role focuses on governance, data quality, stewardship, and policy development to enable trusted analytics and informed decision-making.

The position requires strong leadership, budgeting, and stakeholder management with experience in insurance data domains. Collaboration with IT and business partners will be essential for timely, value-driven delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in insurance, mathematics, business administration, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Seven years data, analytic or similar work experience.
• Three years supervisory, lead experience on projects, or portfolio management.
• General understanding of P&C insurance is required.
• Previous experience leading projects and/or teams is required.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Leads the enterprise Data Governance and Analytics Center of Excellence teams and provides staff leadership, coaching, and development.
• Oversees data governance initiatives, including Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Data Acquisition and Release Policy, and Data Privacy.
• Creates and maintains an enterprise data and analytics strategy and maturity model.
• Coordinates yearly functional planning and budgeting, staffing, training, etc.
• Collaborates with data scientists, data engineers, data governors and analytics stakeholders on projects.
• Partners with internal governance functions to leverage analytics for the enterprise portfolio.
• Creates executive level presentations to inform leadership on analytics governance and progress on business cases.
• Coordinates sources of truth, definitions, and algorithms across the enterprise to align operations.
• Develops analytic strategies, tools, and standard processes with cross-functional teams to optimize objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Budgeting

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree in insurance, mathematics, business administration

Master's degree preferred

Job description

AF Group is seeking a Manager, Data Governance & Analytics to lead the Center of Excellence and drive the analytics program enterprise-wide. The role focuses on governance, data quality, stewardship, and policy development to enable trusted analytics and informed decision-making.

The position requires strong leadership, budgeting, and stakeholder management with experience in insurance data domains. Collaboration with IT and business partners will be essential for timely, value-driven delivery.