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# Underwriting Analytics and Data Standards Manager

- **Company:** Lawes Consulting Group
- **Location:** West Midlands, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Customer Data Management, Data Governance, Enterprise Data Management, Performance Monitor, Tools for Reporting
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2879248752-underwriting-analytics-and-data-standards-manager

## About the Role

* Proven experience leading underwriting analytics and data standards/governance within insurance or financial services.
 * Strong understanding of underwriting principles, trading decisions, and portfolio management (personal and/or commercial lines).
 * Experience developing, validating, and deploying analytical models or data-driven tools into production, with governance and performance monitoring.
 * Strong experience defining data standards, definitions, quality controls and ownership models for underwriting data.
 * Able to constructively challenge senior pricing, actuarial or modelling stakeholders, balancing technical evidence with commercial judgement.
 * Strong stakeholder management skills, translating complex data/model outputs into clear business recommendations.
 * Experience working cross-functionally with Pricing, Risk, Actuarial, Enterprise Data, IT and Change.
 * Good understanding of enterprise data platforms and standards.
 * Strong organisational skills, managing multiple priorities within risk and regulatory frameworks.
 * Experience establishing MI, insight reporting or portfolio analytics for trading and strategic decisions.
 * Good knowledge of insurance regulatory, model risk and data governance requirements.

## Description

This role leads the development and deployment of underwriting analytics capabilities, while defining and embedding the data standards, controls, and governance needed to support consistent, trusted underwriting data., * Sets the strategic direction and roadmap for underwriting analytics and data standards.

 * Defines and embeds frameworks for analytics, model governance, and data standards, aligned to enterprise governance and regulatory expectations.
 * Owns underwriting data standards and governance, common data definitions, quality rules, and control frameworks, acting as data owner.
 * Provides independent analytical challenge to pricing and modelling teams, balancing statistical evidence with commercial underwriting judgement.
 * Represents underwriting priorities in enterprise data/analytics strategy, working closely with Pricing, Risk, Customer Data Science, Enterprise Data, and Technology.
 * Develops MI and analytical outputs that translate into clear, actionable recommendations for portfolio and trading decisions.
 * Embeds governance and regulatory compliance across analytics and data, including data quality, model risk, and auditability.
 * Builds analytical capability across the underwriting community.
 * Leads, manages, and develops direct and indirect reports.


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