Product Owner

General

Job Title: Data Product Owner – Policy

Reports To: Product Manager – Policy & Claims Data

Key Relationships: CDO teams, Product team, 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 will be responsible for maximizing the value of data products within your domain by defining and prioritizing features, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and driving delivery through agile product teams. This role focuses on enabling the business to leverage data for insights, analytics, and operational efficiency, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Your will own the roadmap for your assigned data, collaborating closely with Product Managers, Data Engineers, Analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable data solutions that unlock measurable business outcomes.

This role translates business outcomes into product delivery, structures demand and priorities, alongside capability development and regulatory and control frameworks,

The role requires close collaboration with product team, business stakeholders, data / change leadership and outsourced partners to unlock the value of data assets, drive innovation, and support decision-making through advanced analytics and AI.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Product Development & Delivery

• Policy Administration & Rating Data: Standardize policy data to support analysis of risk, coverages, rating factors, and historical exposures for underwriting and actuarial models.

Ensure fit-for-purpose non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, observability, lineage, privacy-by-design).

Stakeholder Engagement & Ways of Working

• Build trusted relationships with product team, product managers and business stakeholders in your domain, to prioritize demand and measure business value.
• Ensure clear RACI and handoffs across build/run between internal and partner teams; avoid duplication, ensure accountability.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to align data product roadmaps with broader business product strategies.
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Gather requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure stakeholder alignment.
• Work closely with Data Engineers, Architects, and Analysts to ensure technical feasibility and scalability.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the product team.
  
  

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 with Beazley 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, Talent Management or 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 with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, Talent Management or 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 Beazley standards and customer relationship management.

Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or 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 data products that will help Beazley create a best-in-class approaches to Data and AI. Candidate should have a proven track record of owning data products and leading squads that unlock innovation and enhance value delivery across a business. We are looking for someone who can lead and cultivate high performance products delivery, 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

• Stakeholder influence, structured problem-solving, commercial acumen, clear communication, and change leadership.
• Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of the specialist area (Ops/Reg, Dist/Marketing, or Policy/Claims) and adjacent functions (pricing, risk, finance).
• Detailed knowledge of business and technology issues / opportunities related to insurance, data and AI.
• Strong understanding of data management principles, data governance, and analytics.

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.