Data Insights Lead

This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture. As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.

At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Accommodation is available upon request for candidates taking part in the selection process.

Data and analytics are of critical importance for AXIS and are fundamental in reaching AXIS’ goal of becoming the recognized leader in specialty underwriting with expertise, products, and services that directly meet our brokers’ needs.

We aim to turn data into information that can be used to:

• Enable decisions to be made with confidence, based on information not just intuition.
• Be proactive, using information to identify new opportunities, and getting to them before our competitors.
• Realize cost savings, finding ways to make processes more efficient, enabling our people to focus on using their skills to further add business value.

The Data Insights team is D&A’s key focal point with the business, responsible for building and maintaining reporting and MI for the entire organisation. They aim to understand the needs of the business and tailor the insights that the team produce to provide the business with the information they need to confidently make decisions and pursue new opportunities.

In addition to being the key access point for all reporting and MI, the Data Insights team provide additional data services for heavy data users, such as Actuarial and Finance. They are taking ownership of extracting, transforming and summarising data in support of these teams, developing an understanding of the outcomes and building strategic data and reporting solutions to increase efficiency and improve depth of insights.

The Data Insights team is made up of leads, who drive the data insights strategy and regularly engage with stakeholders from across the business to understand their requirements and design solutions, and visualization developers who build the products and outputs.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with the relevant stakeholders throughout the organization. Work closely with consumers of data and MI to support their needs, to give them the insights needed to effectively make decisions.
• Be able to communicate at the appropriate level to provide clear messages about the team’s work and priorities, to listen to and understand the challenges being faced by the business, and to provide options for solutions.
• Be the primary point of entry for day-to-day data and analytics requirements. Provide an exceptional level of service and ensure that stakeholders have the data and insights provided to them in a consumable way.
• Oversee data visualization developers to build and maintain a suite of reports, dashboards and information assets that inform, satisfy and delight internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery of the highest possible quality of outputs and reports. Do this by setting and adhering to clear and consistent standards for how reports and insights should be structured and upkept, how data should be interpreted and how metrics should be calculated.
• Support the design and development of the approach to organising, cataloguing and marketing data insights and reports. Make this the place that all users in the organisation go to find out what insights are available, how to access it and how to interpret the information within it.
• Work closely with the wider D&A organisation and the technical teams that support it, to ensure that the end solutions being built and maintained by this team are informing upstream requirements such as data capture, architecture, data quality, data governance and data product builds such that manual workarounds, downstream fixes and other forms of technical debt are minimised.

You may also be required to take on additional duties, responsibilities and activities appropriate to the nature of this role. This role reports to the Head of Data Insights.

We encourage you to bring your own experience and expertise to the table, so while there are some qualifications and experiences, we need you to have, we are open to discussing how your individual knowledge might lend itself to fulfilling this role and help us achieve our goals.

What you need to have:

• Experience in relevant roles in the (re)insurance industry is essential with experience in US, Bermuda and or UK markets.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills – a key part of this role will be working collaboratively with business stakeholders, and with the wider D&A group.
• Strong knowledge of insurance industry data and information needs of multiple functions within Insurance.
• A deep understanding of the appropriate structures for reports, metrics and visualisations to deliver maximum impact and to tell clear stories to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Technical knowledge around technology and tools used in support of data visualization.
• Strong ability to work with technical teams and multiple work streams with dynamic priorities.
• Ability to prioritize effectively, adapt as necessary based on business priorities, re-factor plans as required by changing priorities and communicate impact of changes to key stakeholders.
• Experience working with Power BI.

For this position, we currently expect to offer a base salary in the range of $150k - $200k (New York). Your salary offer will be based on an assessment of a variety of factors including your specific experience and work location. In addition, you will be offered competitive target incentive compensation, with awards based on overall corporate and individual performance. On top of this, you will be eligible for a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes medical plans for you and your family, health and wellness programs, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and much more.

Rewarding. Challenging. Meaningful. We are shaping the direction of Insurance and Reinsurance during a critical and exciting time for the industry. Whether you are a student approaching graduation or a seasoned professional looking for a new environment, AXIS has the right challenges and career opportunities for you. At AXIS, we value each individual and recognize that attracting and retaining the right people is essential to the success of our company.