Data Product Owner

Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher's global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you'll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we'll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

As a Data Product Owner for Gallagher UK you have an exciting opportunity to join a growing Enterprise Data Management team, working closely with our Chief Data Officer and being focused on building a comprehensive management and view of data products across a global powerhouse in Insurance Broking market.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join us to support and drive our Data Products initiative. As a Data Product Owner, you will be responsible for driving the development and execution of our data products for this domain, ensuring they meet the needs of our organisation and customers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including analysts, data scientists, engineers, and business collaborators, to define product requirements, prioritise features, and deliver high-quality data products.

This role involves significant cross-functional collaboration, including dealing with Senior Stakeholders and IT Teams across our insurance broking divisions, Specialty, Pen Underwriting and Retail.

We offer flexible and hybrid working and this role will be based in our London City office. We are expecting the successful candidate to work 2-3 days a week in the office with two days working from home.

• Define and prioritize the data product roadmap for Gallagher UK, aligning with the overall IT and business strategy and goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and understand their needs, translating them into clear and actionable data product specifications.
• Work closely with data scientists and engineers to ensure the successful development and delivery of data products, ensuring they meet high quality standards and deliver on time.
• Lead the completion of change management activities across functional partners and ensure adherence to Gallagher’s risk, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Understand the data needs to design and implement the data architecture and data model for a scalable data driven product organisation.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify trends and opportunities in the data product space, ensuring our products remain competitive and innovative. Lead end-to-end product delivery processes including intake, dependency management, release management, product operationalization, delivery feasibility decision-making, and product performance reporting, while escalating opportunities to improve efficiencies and functional coordination
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of our data products, making data-driven decisions to drive continuous improvement.
• Responsible for creating Agile work items to elaborate the needs for functional additions, enhancements, or defects, ensuring work items have a clear definition of done, and prioritizing work each sprint / quarter / year
• Champion across Gallagher UK on Agile Ways of Working and participate in working sessions across the organisation to accelerate agile adoption and improve on best practices.

• Extensive experience gained working as a Data Product Owner or similar role, in an agile environment, preferably in a data or analytics domain
• Previous background working in Data & Analytics in an insurance company, brokerage or MGA is needed for this position.
• Familiarity with the Microsoft technology such as Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Collibra, and PowerBI would be an advantage however generally experience with other Master Data Management tools will be considered.
• Demonstrated success working independently in a matrix management model and collaborating with stakeholders and virtual teams across global locations
• A excellent understanding of data management practices, including data privacy protection, data quality, data architecture & modelling is needed
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable product specifications.
• Fantastic communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels and present to groups and external stakeholders.

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.