Job Title: Senior Product Delivery Manager
Reports To: Head of Data Strategy & Delivery
Key Relationships: CDO teams, Change Programmes & Strategic Projects, Product Owners, Product Managers, Value Stream Leads, IT and Data Management, Business Stakeholders, Outsourced teams
Job Summary
Beazley’s data reflects the complexity of our business. We are committed to building a modern data culture that ensures data is reusable and integrated into our business products and services effectively.
In this role you own the data product and service portfolio and manage the delivery lifecycle — from intake and triage to execution and service operations. You will be responsible for alignment with the enterprise data strategy, governance frameworks, and regulatory obligations.
The role orchestrates change from across Beazley into internal and outsourced delivery teams ensuring scalable, compliant, and high-value data products underpin our change efforts, are integrated with our core applications and reused by underwriting, claims, pricing, risk, and customer functions.
The role requires close collaboration with business units, data / change leadership and outsourced partners to unlock the value of data assets, drive innovation, and support decision-making through advanced analytics and AI.
You will be part of a high-performing team of data change experts responsible for ensuring we deliver our strategic priorities, and scale data-driven value and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Data Portfolio & Roadmap Governance (Portfolio Management)
* Own the data product and service portfolio, maintaining a single view of all data initiatives, roadmaps, release plans, and benefits realization.
* Coordinate with PMO, Change, and Business teams to ensure alignment of data work to business priorities.
* Run intake and triage: qualify demand, assess feasibility, prioritize with clear criteria (value, risk, regulatory, capacity), and convert approved requests into scoped initiatives.
* Define andmaintainportfolio KPIs (value delivered, adoption, SLA attainment, cost-to-serve, data quality).
* Develop business cases for data-related investments and support enterprise prioritisation discussions.
* Identifyopportunities for data-driven innovationacross the underwriting lifecycle including, claims, pricing, and customer engagement.
Delivery Execution & Alignment (Service Delivery)
* Lead cross-functional delivery across engineering, architecture, data governance, security, and business product owners; ensure traceability to strategy, standards, and control frameworks.
* Champion deliveryframework(Scrum/Kanban) with robust delivery hygiene: backlog health,DoR/DoD, release management, dependency management, and change control.
* Ensure fit-for-purpose non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, observability, lineage, privacy-by-design).
* Own budget tracking for the portfolio and outsourced services; manage forecasts, variances, and business cases.
* Define value hypotheses and track benefits (e.g., loss ratio improvement, faster FNOL analytics, fraud detection uplift, operational efficiency gains).
Service Management & Operations
* Establish and manage run and grow services for data platforms/products: SLAs/OLAs, incident/problem/change management, and operational runbooks.
* Act as the primary escalation point for delivery issues and ensure timely resolution.
Vendor & Outsourced Partner Management
* Manageoutsourced delivery partners: contract oversight, SLA/KPI enforcement, QBRs, risk/issue escalation, and corrective action plans.
* Aligndeliveryteams with architecture standards, data governance policies, security controls, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, Solvency II, IFRS 17).
* Ensure clear RACI and handoffs across build/run between internal and partner teams; avoid duplication, ensure accountability.
Data Frameworks & Compliance
* Establish and enforce change, data management and governance frameworks to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulations such as GDPR, Solvency II, and IFRS 17.
* Implement policies for datamanagement,stewardshipand lifecycle management across the organization.
Stakeholder Engagement & Ways of Working
* Run a consistent engagement model with change teams andbusiness lines (underwriting, claims, pricing, finance, risk) to prioritize demand and measure outcomes.
* Maintain transparent status reporting, steering committee packs, release notes, and playbooks; promote data literacy and adoption.
* Lead and coach a matrixed team of product owners, delivery leads, business analysts, and engineers (including partner teams).to ensure seamless delivery of data initiatives.
* Evolve delivery tooling and practices (Jira/ServiceNow, test automation, observability) and continuous improvement cadences.
General
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours.
* Adopt the Beazley culture of being bold, striving for better and do the right thing. This contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to all our external customers.
* Comply withBeazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct Rules.Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, TalentManagementor assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
* Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
* Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
* Comply withany specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, TalentManagementor assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas.This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazleystandardsand customer relationship management.
* Carry outadditionalresponsibilities as individually notified, either through yourobjectivesor through the learning management system.These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.
Personal Specification
We’re looking for candidates who are passionate about driving strategic change that will help Beazley create a best-in-class approach to Data and AI. Candidate should have a proven track record of delivering strategic data initiatives that unlock innovation and enhance value delivery across a business. We are looking for someone who can lead and cultivate high performance delivery team(s), and knows how to encourage performance, motivate peers, and collaborate at all levels of an organisation.
The successful candidate should have a passion for data and a curious mindset both for Beazley and the wider insurance industry. Great communication skills across all levels of seniority and the ability to represent data internally and externally to our colleagues, and clients will also be important.
Essential Criteria
* Ability to define and drive organisational data strategy aligned with business objectives.
* Strong understanding of insurance data domains, governance, architecture, analytics, and data platforms to effectively integrate them into strategic planning.
* Significant experience running multi-team portfolios and outsourced/managed services.
* Proven experience managing outsourced delivery partners or third-party vendors in large-scale data programs.
* Strong in Agile/Scaled Agile, portfolio management, service management (ITIL), DataOps/MLOps, and benefits realization.
* Detailed knowledge of business and technology issues / opportunities related to insurance, data and AI.
Education
* Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or related field; advanced degree desirable.
Knowledge & Experience
* Demonstrable experience of leadingdata delivery/product management within insurance or financial services.
* Significant experiencerunning multi-team portfolios and outsourced/managed services.
* Proven experience managing outsourced delivery partners or third-party vendors in large-scale data programs.
* Strong negotiation skills and ability to enforce SLAs and KPIs.
* Experience applying AI & automation to enhance and support data strategy anddelivery.
* An expert in Change management practicesincluding waterfall, continuousimprovementand Agile ways of working.
* Strong in Agile/Scaled Agile, portfolio management, service management (ITIL), DataOps/MLOps, and benefits realization.
* Detailed knowledge of business and technology issues / opportunities related to insurance, data and AI.
* Familiar with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP),lakehouse/data warehousing (Databricks, Snowflake), orchestration (Airflow, ADF), transformation (dbt), streaming (Kafka), BI (Power BI), data governance, quality, and observability/monitoring.
* Delivery excellence: structured, outcomes-focused, able to unblock and drive pace.
* Vendor management & negotiation: comfortable enforcing SLAs/KPIs and navigating performance levers.
* Stakeholder influence: credible with senior business leaders and technical teams; clear communicator.
* Analytical & strategic: frames value/benefits; ties delivery to business outcomes and strategy.
* Resilience &judgment:manages risk, ambiguity, and complex dependencies.
Competencies
* Ability to define and drive organisational data strategy aligned with business objectives.
* Experience in designing and operationalising data policies, principles, and strategic frameworks.
* Strong understanding ofinsurancedata domains, governance, architecture, analytics, and data platforms to effectively integrate them into strategic planning.
* Experience in influencing and aligning executive stakeholders across business and technology.
* Proventrack recordof leading highperforming data strategy teams.
* Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link data strategy to value creation in Insurance.
* Ability to extract information by questioning,listeningand interviewing.
* Results orientated
* Problem solving skills
* Collaborative team player
Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.
The Rewards
* The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, global organization
* Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus
* Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents
* Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance
* Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%
* 25 days of annual leave (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus public holidays, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs, subject to approval. Additional annual leave purchase is also available up to a maximum of five additional days per year.
* Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually
* Up to £550 reimbursement towards home office setup
* Free in-office lunch and monthly lifestyle allowance
* Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket
* The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock
* Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
* Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
* Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
* Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business
We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non-visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we’ll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.
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