Data Product Manager – Premium

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Articulate and convey the vision, objectives, and roadmap for the Premium data product.

• Spearhead exploratory discussions with Finance, underwriting, and business stakeholders to gain insights into processes, reporting requirements, challenges, and data flows.

• Take ownership of the product encompassing source data, interfaces within the Unified Data Ecosystem, transformation, conformance, and end-user products.

• Champion the alignment of premium, commission, and associated data through standardized definitions, dimensions, and business rules.

• Cultivate relationships with senior Finance executives, business product owners, subject-matter experts, Data, Technology, and external partners.

• Oversee an integrated roadmap and backlog that includes source readiness, interfaces, platform capabilities, transformation, reporting, and user adoption.

• Define the structure, capabilities, roles, and capacity of the cross-functional team required for successful delivery; identify resource shortfalls and mobilize teams accordingly.

• Matrix-manage specialists in engineering, architecture, data quality, analysis, reporting, and testing throughout the phases of discovery, design, build, validation, and release.

• Establish criteria for ownership, lineage, metadata, access controls, reconciliation, and quality expectations.

• Set success metrics, monitor product health and usage, and promote adoption in reporting and decision-making processes.

• Coordinate the transition from change initiatives to operational run, including stewardship, support, prioritization of small changes, and continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in defining and managing data products from the discovery phase through to strategy, delivery, adoption, and ongoing stewardship.

• Strong capability to comprehend how premium data underpins financial management, underwriting performance, planning, reporting, and executive decision-making.

• Background in collaborating across diverse source systems, business units, and data models to formulate common definitions, aligned grain, and reusable data structures.

• Established credibility with senior business, Finance, underwriting, Data, and Technology stakeholders; skilled in facilitating decisions, constructively challenging, and fostering alignment.

• Proficient in deconstructing ambiguous issues, linking business outcomes to source data and transformations, and making informed decisions on scope and sequencing.

• Practical experience with data ownership, controls, lineage, reconciliation, access management, and quality standards within a regulated environment.

• Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams and managing roadmaps, backlogs, risks, and dependencies utilizing Agile and relevant project methodologies.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating complex data and delivery challenges into clear options, recommendations, and executive-level summaries.

• Experience in commercial or specialty insurance, particularly related to premium, underwriting, policy, commission, or reinsurance data (preferred).

• Familiarity with Finance and underwriting reporting (preferred).

• Background in delivering enterprise data products on a cloud data platform and enabling Power BI or similar analytics consumption (preferred).

• Proficient in using Jira, Confluence, or comparable collaboration and project management tools (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Commitment to learning and long-term career development.

• An open and collaborative work culture.

• Exposure to high-performance data platforms and cloud infrastructure.