MI Portfolio Manager

Job Description

Introduction

At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you’ll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence. Together, we transform advanced insights and market intelligence into strategies that protect businesses, drive performance, and shape the future of reinsurance. We’re a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.

At Gallagher Re, we have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an MI Portfolio Manager.

Our MI pillar portfolios include our FP&A, Client Advocacy, Carrier Management, Global Claims, Servicing and Operations teams who are responsible for both strategic and operational management information reporting needs of our business.

The Portfolio Manager oversees pillar portfolio reporting suites, ensuring alignment with the business stakeholders’ requirements and the MI governance framework and the wider Gallagher Re strategies.

The MI Portfolio Manager is responsible for pilar working group facilitation, manages risks and issues and escalations through the Steering Committee to ensure delivery remains on track. This role will have oversight of the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring resources are effectively allocated, risks and issues are mitigated, and deliverables are well-defined assures robust execution of high-quality management information reporting.

A trusted partner to key stakeholders in each region, the MI Portfolio Manager is a key enabler in delivering reporting that supports business decision-making, performance improvement and problem-solving.

This role is based in our London City Headquarters however we offer flexible/hybrid working and you will be expected in the office twice a week.

1. Portfolio Management

• Manage pillar portfolio reporting projects and initiatives within the MI governance framework.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring deliverables are defined, prioritised, and adequately resourced for development and testing.
• Identify and record issues and risks, escalating to the Steering Committee as required.
• Create detailed plans and roadmaps for pillar portfolio MI projects and initiatives.
• Maintain related artefacts, such as risk and issue logs.

1. MI Operations and Governance

• Work with leadership to refine and implement the MI strategy specific to pillar portfolios.
• Ensure adherence to data governance, MI governance, and external frameworks (e.g., InfoSec, regulatory compliance, technology policies).
• Establish and enforce reporting standards to drive consistency, accuracy, and reliability of insights.

1. Stakeholder Management & Engagement

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders as a trusted partner, understanding their business, challenges, and goals.
• Provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders on roadmap progress, risks, issues, and performance metrics.
• Validate alignment of business needs and solutions with Gallagher Re and Gallagher strategies, escalating issues as necessary.

1. Team Leadership

• Directly manage technical business analysts and indirectly manage offshore development resources.
• Foster cross-functional and matrix working, promoting collaboration through pillar working groups and related activities.
• Support change management efforts related to MI governance, self-service reporting, and new ways of working.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers to ensure teams are adequately resourced and skilled.

1. Data, Digital, and Technology Interfaces

• Ensure appropriate MI tools are used and policies adhered to for MI reporting.
• Stay informed about planned activities in Data, Digital, and Technology.
• Collaborate with Digital teams on internal MI delivery mechanisms and design standards.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies and updates to existing technologies.

• Relevant practical experience in MI/Data Analytics Management and previous practitioner experience in Insights/Report/Data Analyst type roles is essential.
• Previous experience gained in the (Re)Insurance or London Insurance market would be an advantage but is not essential.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing MI strategies.
• Fantastic communication skills to manage complex stakeholder needs.
• Experience managing and prioritising multiple data-related initiatives.
• Ability to lead and develop insight and reporting practitioners (e.g., technical business analysts, data/insight analysts).
• Experience working with geographically dispersed teams-working with offshore teams.
• Skilled in anticipating and managing risks, issues, and challenges.
• Ability to balance tactical and strategic solutions to ensure alignment with organisational strategy. Relevant practical experience in MI/data analytics management.
• Agile experience is essential.
• Experience with tools like Azure DevOps or similar.
• Excellent understanding of reporting tools and practices (e.g., Power BI for data visualisation).
• Understanding of data governance and regulatory compliance

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [email protected] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.