At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of data products and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Company: Join Hastings Group, a forward-thinking insurance company with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible hybrid working, competitive salary, and extensive health benefits.
- Other info: Great career growth opportunities and a supportive, inclusive workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the insurance industry by driving data-driven decisions.
- Qualifications: Experience as a Product Owner in a data-focused environment is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 70000 £ per year.
Location: Leicester, London or Bexhill (all hybrid)
Contract: Fixed Term Contract approx. 12 months
Role Overview
As our Data Product Owner and Delivery Lead, you’ll be an integral part of our Analytics Projects Team within Claims. You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality data products and services that support various aspects of our insurance business focused around our initiatives within Claims and our three year plans. You’ll collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams, including data engineers, analysts, commercial and operational teams, data scientists and various stakeholders to define, prioritise and lead the development of data solutions that enable data driven decision making and business growth.
Responsibilities
- Leading and managing data products, including data pipelines, data warehouses and analytics tools, throughout their lifecycle – from ideation to delivery, and owning end‑to‑end delivery planning for data products including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks and issue management.
- Collaborating with business stakeholders to gather and understand data requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives – working with team members and coordinating across business and technical teams to balance demand, capacity and delivery commitments and defining and communicating the product vision.
- Defining acceptance criteria for user stories and performing regular testing to ensure data product quality and reliability meet the defined criteria.
- Providing clear delivery reporting to stakeholders, including progress, risks, decisions and escalations where required and acting as a bridge between technical and non‑technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication of project progress.
- Maintaining and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring that user stories and tasks are well defined, estimated and ready for development.
- Proactively identifying opportunities for process improvements and driving initiatives to enhance data product development and delivery.
Essential Skills / Experience
- Experience as a Product Owner or Delivery Lead in a data‑focused environment – insurance experience (or other regulated environment) would be beneficial.
- Strong understanding of data engineering, data warehousing and analytics concepts.
- Experience in risk and dependency management alongside stakeholder reporting – able to translate business requirements into technical solutions with the ability to discuss this at both a technical and non‑technical level.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies, SQL and Power BI.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance, you will receive flexible hybrid working, a competitive bonus scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance cover, income protection, pension contributions up to 10%, financial wellbeing support, a mental wellbeing programme, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (with the option to buy or sell a week), health care cash‑back plans, dental plans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, discounted and free onsite facilities, and social events.
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
