Data Manager in Cardiff

Pet Insurance is a central part of Admiral Insurance’s diversification strategy, with Pricing and Data playing a critical role in driving its success. As the volume, speed, and variety of data continue to grow, high‑quality data and insight are essential for delivering meaningful reporting. This includes monitoring performance, identifying opportunities to improve both products and internal processes, ensuring pricing remains fair and sustainable, and keeping the business competitive.

We are seeking a Data Manager to oversee the delivery of data, reporting, and insights that support the Pet function. Partnering closely with Pricing and wider teams in Pet and Data, you will be responsible for collating, transforming, and analysing data, ensuring accuracy and reliability across all reporting. As a small but expanding team, this management role also involves hands‑on work, and requires a collaborative, proactive approach.

Main Duties

• Lead and manage a team of data analysts responsible for data ingestion, analysis, and quality oversight.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of core datasets used by the Pricing team.
• Design and deliver insightful reporting tailored to stakeholder needs, including Pricing, Claims, and Underwriting.
• Manage the development and upkeep of dashboards to monitor MI and performance across multiple business areas, including regulatory reporting such as Fair Value Assessments.
• Contribute to enhancing MI and reporting tools to support growing data volumes and ensure efficient, accurate insight delivery.
• Take ownership of resolving data quality issues, performing root‑cause analysis, and assessing wider business impacts.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including Pet leadership and the Pet Director.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues across Pet and data functions, particularly Pet Data Analysts in the PaTH team, promoting best practice and shared objectives.
• Establish and chair a data forum to support alignment and collaboration across teams.
• Lead the ongoing development of MI and pricing tools, along with the underlying architecture required to produce high‑quality reporting at scale.
• Define requirements for integrating new data sources or external datasets into Pet’s reporting processes.
• Create and/or maintain a comprehensive data definitions library to support consistency and clarity across the business.
• Carry out any additional duties as assigned by the Head of Pet Pricing, Data and Analytics.

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Strong experience in a pricing, data, or related analytical role
• Previous people management experience.
• Strong data analysis skills using tools such as SAS, BigQuery or SQL.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across various stakeholders.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal, tailored to different audiences.
• High numerical capability with a structured, methodical approach to problem‑solving.
• Exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in insights and conclusions.
• Proactive, collaborative working style.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so we accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

Overall package is negotiable dependant on your experience. Due to the sheer variety of opportunities within Admiral, we understand that it can sometimes be confusing as to what “level” of role is being advertised compared to your current job. If you would like to talk to us about either flexible working or overall compensation, please click here to submit your query.

If you would like to arrange a port of call – please reach out to Claire Witcombe.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It\’s a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people‑first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people‑first culture. In fact, we\’ve been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work‑life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.