Data Development & Enrichment Lead

Job Title: Data Development & Enrichment Lead

Location: Peterborough or Manchester (hybrid)

About the Role:

As a Data Development & Enrichment Lead, you will drive strategic use of enrichment data to support risk & retail pricing, lending decisions and acceptability. Sitting within the Analytics & Enrichment team, you support the development, maintenance and optimisation of the businesses data enrichment strategies across our insurance brands.

This role blends hands-on analytics with leadership, stakeholder engagement and innovation in insurance enrichment to solve business problems and add commercial value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities for value creation: Proactively seek new ways to harvest value from new and existing enrichment from both internal and external sources.

• Creation of enrichment evaluation pipelines: develop methodologies for the continued evaluation of new and existing strategies.

• Partner with stakeholders: Collaborate with internal and external teams to understand their enrichment needs and work with 3rd parties to understand market opportunities.

• Champion analytics and enrichment across the business: Provide analytical support to the business, informing decision making.

• Own and optimise enrichment scorecards for the use of lending: Ensure models and processes are continuously refined for maximum effectiveness.

• Solve complex business problems: Apply creative approaches to tackle challenges and unlock insights.

• Design and enhance monitoring tools: Lead the development and optimisation of monitoring tools which keep an eye on existing enrichment strategies.

• Champion data quality and governance: Uphold high standards of data integrity, compliance, and governance across all analytical initiatives.

About you:

• Proven experience in pricing, analytics, data science, or a related field, within UK personal lines insurance market.

• Strong academic background in a numerical discipline (eg BSc Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science).

• Experience of proactively identifying and solving complex business problems using data and/or implementing data orientated change that has delivered significant and measurable commercial benefit.

• Advanced SQL skills with experience with Python and/or R.

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong organisational and strategic thinking capabilities.

Desirable

• Experience with personal lines enrichment products including the use of credit bureau data.

• Exposure to A/B testing and optimisation techniques.

• Postgraduate qualification in relevant field (eg Computer Science, Data Science, Operational Research)

• Experience with modern data platforms (eg Databricks, Snowflake, MS Fabric).