Data Insights Lead

This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.  We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.  As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.

At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Accommodation is available upon request for candidates taking part in the selection process.

How does this role contribute to our collective success?

Data and analytics are of critical importance for AXIS and are fundamental in reaching AXIS’ goal of becoming the recognized leader in specialty underwriting with expertise, products, and services that directly meet our brokers’ needs.

We aim to turn data into information that can be used to:

• Enable decisions to be made with confidence, based on information not just intuition.
• Be proactive, using information to identify new opportunities, and getting to them before our competitors.
• Realize cost savings, finding ways to make processes more efficient, enabling our people to focus on using their skills to further add business value.

The Data Insights team is D&A’s key focal point with the business, responsible for building and maintaining reporting and MI for the entire organisation. They aim to understand the needs of the business and tailor the insights that the team produce to provide the business with the information they need to confidently make decisions and pursue new opportunities.

In addition to being the key access point for all reporting and MI, the Data Insights team provide additional data services for heavy data users, such as Actuarial and Finance. They are taking ownership of extracting, transforming and summarising data in support of these teams, developing an understanding of the outcomes and building strategic data and reporting solutions to increase efficiency and improve depth of insights. 

The Data Insights team is made up of leads, who drive the data insights strategy and regularly engage with stakeholders from across the business to understand their requirements and design solutions, and visualization developers who build the products and outputs.

What will you do in this role?

• Build and maintain strong relationships with the relevant stakeholders throughout the organization. Work closely with consumers of data and MI to support their needs, to give them the insights needed to effectively make decisions.
• Be able to communicate at the appropriate level to provide clear messages about the team’s work and priorities, to listen to and understand the challenges being faced by the business, and to provide options for solutions.
• Be the primary point of entry for day-to-day data and analytics requirements. Provide an exceptional level of service and ensure that stakeholders have the data and insights provided to them in a consumable way.
• Oversee data visualization developers to build and maintain a suite of reports, dashboards and information assets that inform, satisfy and delight internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery of the highest possible quality of outputs and reports. Do this by setting and adhering to clear and consistent standards for how reports and insights should be structured and upkept, how data should be interpreted and how metrics should be calculated.
• Support the design and development of the approach to organising, cataloguing and marketing data insights and reports. Make this the place that all users in the organisation go to find out what insights are available, how to access it and how to interpret the information within it.
• Work closely with the wider D&A organisation and the technical teams that support it, to ensure that the end solutions being built and maintained by this team are informing upstream requirements such as data capture, architecture, data quality, data governance and data product builds such that manual workarounds, downstream fixes and other forms of