The purpose of this role is to work within Data Value Management (DVM) Team order to effectively drive the key data capabilities to our business customers: Data Management, Data Quality, Master and Reference Data Management. You will be a seasoned data professional with technical mind and have an appreciation for business, as well as an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills in order to gain greater insight of their data requirements and effectively drive the UK Data Strategy.

We're one of the largest general insurers in the UK, which means we have lots of IT and data legacy to work with, but we are on a transformation journey and have an incredible opportunity to create value, using the array of data management, quality and analysis tools available to us, our vast pool of data and deep industry expertise.

Why Join

This is an exciting time in our industry. Successful insurers of the future will be those who embrace technology, innovation and effectively exploit data, and we are positioning ourselves to lead. Our team sits at the heart of data driven transformation and we're looking for others to join us on this exciting journey.

This is what may be a part of your daily job:

- Lead an agile delivery team focused on delivering and maintaining an operational MDM solution of commercial organisations.

- You'll be working alongside enterprise and solution architects to develop MDM product. You will manage dialogue with external data suppliers as well as represent MDM capability to senior stakeholders.

- Lead and perform analysis and develop foundational data products for Master Data Management and that will help hundreds of staff in supporting our customers, and influence our business strategy.

- Be responsible for supporting the definition and implementation our single view of Customer of a data management and quality frameworks and associated best practices.

- Drive adoption of Data Ownership framework in the UK

- Drive a better understanding of the value of data with stakeholders and users and contribute to improvements in data management and data quality.

- Maintain relationship with our business customers, in order help to identify improvement opportunities by understanding specific business area's value drivers and help recommend value-driven solutions to key stakeholders, especially with regards to MDM implementation.

This is what you will need to feel comfortable in your role:

• Have an in depth understanding and business outlook on Master Data Management implementation in large, multidivisional organisation. Setting up stewardship processes, associated policies and scaling them up.
• Have experience with building and maintaining corporate legal hierarchies and experience of mastering commercial organisation party data.
• Understanding of external data enrichment for commercial organisations .
• Experience working in a project environment or managing large items of work- ideally in the context of data.
• Experience of working on international data projects.
• Commercially minded. Able to link technical investment to value and re-use
• Entrepreneur navigating legacy to drive process and cultural change
• Adaptable to working in an agile environment
• Able to juggle multiple projects and stakeholders
• An inquisitive mind to join data and business value across a complex landscape
• Comfortable balancing day to day operational priority data activities alongside project commitments
• Experience with IBM IIS (InfoSphere Information Toolset) including RDM and MDM Modules (or similar technology like Informatica)
• Base level of numerical competence - bachelor's degree in a numerate, scientific or computing subject (e.g. Computer Science, Business analytics, Data Science, Maths, Economics, Physics …