Data Governance Manager

• Support the hands-on implementation and operation of enterprise-wide data governance, controls and assurance within a regulated environment.
• Develop expertise in data ownership and controls across strategic data domains, providing insights and guidance to senior business data owners and delivery teams.
• Opportunity to help shape data management best practice within our growing Data Centre of Excellence team
• Hybrid role, with up to 80% from home and the rest from our Head Office in Stratford upon Avon.

About the role

Join our new Data Centre of Excellence

It's an exciting time to join NFU Mutual as we continue to shape and grow our Data Centre of Excellence (DCoE) to support key strategic programmes and deliver our data strategy. We're focused on making the right data accessible to the right people across the business and on creating a data literate organisation, so our people get the most value from data. It's about harnessing the power of data to improve experiences for our people, our customers and our business. You can play a key role in this journey.

An additional role in Data Governance has recently opened up due to internal promotion.

About the role

As Data Governance Manager, you will be responsible for implementing, embedding and running data governance, controls and assurance across one or more strategic data domains (e.g. Customer, Claims, Finance).

This is a hands-on role, in which you will action the practical delivery, operation and continuous improvement of data governance, controls and assurance across strategic data domains. You will take responsibility for translating NFU Mutual's Data Governance Framework, target control environment and regulatory expectations into operational domain-level governance that is actively embedded, used and maintained.

You will support our team's efforts as we work alongside senior business data owners to deliver analytics and AI ready data for the domains you co-ordinate, providing owners with the tools and insight to assess the maturity of their domain and identify, prioritise and deliver data improvements. This includes establishing clear data ownership and stewardship, ensuring responsibilities are fully understood and discharged.

Acting as the co-ordinator for data governance and control improvements for your domains, you will also support resolution activity working closely with business, change, architecture and delivery teams to assess impact, coordinate corrective action and ensure appropriate controls are fed into systems and processes as required.

You will also help us ensure we achieve our objective of creating a marketplace of easily accessible, ready to use, trusted data products. You'll help manage the delivery of DCoE developed data products, embed standards and support the drive for improved quality, to enable data-driven decisions throughout NFU Mutual.

The Data Governance Manager role gives you the opportunity to continually grow your knowledge as well as influence and shape data management within our Data Centre of Excellence. This is a great opportunity in a highly visible role to not only be part of the change, but to support the change and improvement needed for the future.

This role is know internally as a Data Domain Manager

Do you have experience in Financial services?, Pro-active, forward thinking and naturally curious, you have a clear business focus, are able to provide hands-on support to deliver through ambiguity and can confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels.

To join our team, it's essential that you have:

• Current experience in a business-facing role working with multiple senior stakeholders
• Ability to communicate to stakeholders at varying levels of data literacy
• Strong networking skills that ensure you gain business engagement
• Experience of transforming and embedding effective data management practices within an insurance, financial services, or regulated industry.

You must also have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Data Management within regulated environments
• Data Governance
• Data Risk, Controls and Assurance delivery
• Data Quality Management
• Metadata, Lineage and Data Classification operations

Insurance Business Domain Knowledge and Data Visualisation experience is also desirable.

Pulled from the full job description

• Referral programme

• Annual leave

• Employee discount

• Gym membership

• Private dental insurance

• Company pension

• Private medical insurance, When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary up to £65,000 dependent on experience

• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)

• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme

• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities

• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets

• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs * Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more

• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance

• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year

• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme

• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary

• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we're proud to be recognised as "a great place to work". Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We've also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 - and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform. Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of "Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK", and we've been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable-so we're successful now and in the future.