Data Analyst Team Leader

Data Analyst Team Leader:

• A pivotal role within the Pricing Data team
• Join NFU Mutual at a critical time and have true impact on the business
• Hybrid vacancy: work 1 day from the office in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and 4 days from home

About the role:

As a result of internal mobility, we’re currently seeking a Data Analyst Team Leader to support the Pricing Data Assets team. The team support how the Pricing function review and utilise data to ensure that we remain fair and competitive to our customers. Working with raw data from multiple internal systems, you’ll transform it into high quality, reliable datasets that our Pricing, Underwriting and Data teams can use with confidence.

As Team Leader within the Data Assets team, you’ll help us meet our ambitions to maintain existing assets, deliver new solutions across the business, and provide specialist data expertise to support underwriting, regulatory reporting and regular business reporting. As part of this, you’ll collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and work end-to-end across a range of data activities including ETL, pipeline creation and data integration from diverse, raw sources.

You’ll manage, lead and develop two team members, supporting their continued upskilling as the team transitions into more modern, agile ways of working. With an Azure-based environment already in place, you’ll bring the technical capability to pick up, maintain and evolve our cloud-based data tools and workflows.

This is a role with plenty of challenge and opportunity. Planning and horizon scanning is crucial. You’ll be responsible for keeping a strategic and commercial focus by engaging proactively with stakeholders, and anticipating what’s needed ahead of key changes, including upcoming policy administration system developments. You’ll bring strategic thinking, strong prioritisation and the ability to guide conversations that ensure data needs are understood early.

As for the future, several career paths are open: you could deepen your expertise as a technical specialist or grow further into people leadership. Whichever direction you take, this role gives exposure to a wide range of datasets, tools and analytical challenges that build strong foundations for long-term progression.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

This role is known internally as “Data Consultant”.

About you:

You’re an experience data professional, bringing with you a strong foundation of working with data, along with the curiosity and drive to turn complex information into meaningful insight while leading, developing and inspiring a small team.

To join the team, you’ll also bring:

• Significant experience in senior Data or Leadership roles within complex enterprise environments, with a strong focus on Azure (highly desirable) or AWS, GCP.
• Previous and demonstrable experience of training and developing others through leadership, management or coaching - essential
• Strong SQL and Excel experience - Essential
• Experience using Jira or Git, and Familiarity with tools and programs such as SSIS, Python, Power BI - Desirable
• The knowledge of how to engineer, test, reconcile and optimise data, and you take care in producing clear technical documentation that others can easily follow.
• The ability to lead pieces of work effectively, keeping things moving while supporting others and building positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, sound judgement and the ability to explain technical detail in a straightforward, accessible way.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards:

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary £50,417 - £65,000, depending on experience and performance at interview
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year

Working at NFU Mutual:

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.