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About the Role
This is a rare opportunity to build and lead a newly created function at the heart of Markel UK's transformation journey. We're looking for an exceptional leader to head up our Data, MI, Governance & Oversight team; a role with real influence, visibility and impact across the business. Reporting directly to the COO and working closely with the UK Executive Team, you'll bring together data, analytics, governance and customer outcome oversight to help shape strategic decision-making and drive sustainable business growth. This is not a hands-on technical data role. Instead, we're looking for a commercially minded leader who can connect people, insight and strategy. Someone who can translate complex information into meaningful business stories, influence senior stakeholders and create a clear vision for how data and governance support the future success of the business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the UK Data & MI Strategy
- Define and deliver a clear vision for data, MI and analytics across the UK business.
- Create a single, trusted view of business performance for senior leaders.
- Improve reporting capabilities and executive decision-making through meaningful insight.
- Drive adoption of Group data standards, tools and reporting frameworks.
- Drive Insight Across the Business
- Help the business understand performance through three critical lenses: Financial Performance, Portfolio & Technical Performance, and Operational Performance.
- Strengthen Governance & Customer Outcomes
- Enhance governance and oversight frameworks.
- Improve the use of data-driven oversight and monitoring.
- Support Consumer Duty requirements and customer outcome reporting.
- Identify emerging risks, trends and opportunities for intervention.
- Deliver high-quality governance reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Lead and Influence
- Provide leadership to a growing team spanning data, MI, analytics and governance.
- Partner with senior leaders across Operations, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Underwriting and Technology.
- Build strong relationships with UK and International stakeholders.
- Translate complex information into clear, actionable business recommendations.
- Help shape the future direction of the UK business through insight and influence.
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience within Data, MI, Analytics, Performance Management or Governance functions.
- Strong insurance industry experience, either commercial or personal lines.
- Proven ability to create insight-led reporting and decision-making frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and influencing across matrix organisations.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including understanding key insurance performance measures such as GWP, NWP, loss ratios and profitability drivers.
- Ability to simplify complexity and tell compelling stories through data.
- Experience working in regulated financial services environments.
- Consumer Duty or conduct risk exposure.
- Experience working with international or group-wide operating models.
- Understanding of US GAAP reporting principles.
- Exposure to AI-enabled analytics, automation or advanced reporting solutions.
Skills
- Data strategy
- Data governance
- Management information
- Reporting
- Business performance analytics
- Customer outcome monitoring
- Conduct risk oversight
- Governance frameworks
- Executive reporting
- Commercial awareness
- Analytics
- Business performance
- Stakeholder management
- Executive-level communication
- Team leadership
- Influencing
- Commercial acumen
- Financial acumen
- Data storytelling
- AI-enabled analytics
- Automation
- Advanced reporting solutions
Location
- Flexible UK Location
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Birmingham
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid Working (3 Days Per Week in Office)
- Permanent
- Leadership Role
Experience Level
- Leadership Role
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary & 25% annual bonus opportunity
Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- Generous pension contribution
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Travel insurance
- Season ticket loan
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
About the Company
- Markel UK is undergoing a transformation journey.
- Markel is a growing, ambitious business.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.