Hiscox

Global Data, Analytics, AI Programme Manager

Hiscox

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Overseeing strategic data initiatives, ensuring alignment with the Group Data Strategy and driving successful transformation outcomes.
  • Managing complex project and programme plans, allocating resources, and ensuring stakeholder alignment to deliver business value.
  • Line management responsibility of Product Owners and managers, and being accountable for the overall roadmap and delivery of data change across both central and local technology functions.
  • Leading change and transformational change in the business, acting as Programme Manager for the Group Data portfolio as well as guiding others in resolving complex issues within the data domain and personally solving problems with significant cross-functional business process implications.
  • Provide comprehensive reporting on Group data use case progress, track OKRs and KPIs for Group Data Strategy implementation, and communicate feedback, risks, and delivery status to the ExCo and programme, project and product sponsors.
  • Define, own, and prioritize the unified data ecosystem product backlog, ensuring work aligns with product objectives and delivers maximum value to Group functions, with clear acceptance criteria for delivery requirements.
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships across the matrix data organisation, proactively managing expectations and facilitating consensus.

Requirements

  • Experience in creating oversight frameworks to drive value from and track performance of Portfolios and Programmes in a matrix delivery organisation
  • Extensive experience leading strategic data initiatives and driving successful transformation in complex, cross-functional environments, including oversight of large-scale projects and programs.
  • Proven ability to manage project and program plans, allocate resources efficiently, and ensure alignment and engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business.
  • Demonstrated leadership in line managing product owners and managers, with accountability for delivering data change roadmaps across multiple technology functions.
  • Expertise in guiding teams to resolve complex, cross-functional business process challenges, balancing competing priorities, and ensuring change and product management best practices are maintained.
  • Strong aptitude for data and customer-centric problem solving, operating within Agile delivery teams to manage backlogs, prioritize and embed business value, and challenge the status quo.
Benefits
  • bonus
  • contributory pension
  • 25 days annual leave plus 2 Hiscox days
  • 4 week paid sabbatical with every 5 years’ worth of service
  • private medical for all the family
  • hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
data initiativesproject managementprogram managementoversight frameworksAgile deliverydata change managementbacklog managementKPI trackingOKR trackingproduct management
Soft skills
leadershipstakeholder engagementproblem solvingrelationship buildingcommunicationresource allocationexpectation managementconsensus facilitationcross-functional collaborationstrategic thinking