Data Business Manager

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• Build, execute and maintain an effective Data Function governance structure and ways of working, including meeting oversight and cadence.
• Attend governance meetings with the Data Leadership Team, provide preparation support for key meetings and input to discussions as needed.
• Define and track key performance indicators and OKRs, showing progress against delivery of the Data Strategy.
• Set requirements for information gathering and sharing ahead of meetings, following up where necessary.
• Work with other teams to ensure that information and data presented to the Data Leadership Team enables informed debate and decision making e.g. finance cost definitions
• Work with Finance to review and understand Data Function budgets, expenses and financial performance, ensuring completion of any adjustments, updates or reallocations as needed.
• Act as a gatekeeper for all cross functional information gathering, ensuring there is a consistency, one source of the truth and alignment in the way information is presented.
• Support the Chief Data Officer with risk management and resilience activities, including preparation for governance meetings, driving follow up actions and coordinating mitigation strategies.
• Work alongside the communication team, creating mechanisms for Data Function information sharing and two-way feedback.
• Implement best practice ways of working - drive continuous improvements and  ensure all engagements are effective and promote team cohesion.
• Foster and embed a culture of openness, collaboration, and effective communication across the Data Leadership Team.
• Support the Data Leadership Team to drive forward actions and ensure Data actions are completed to agreed timescales.
• Assist the Chief Data Officer, and wider Data Leadership Team, with ad-hoc queries and activities related to Data Function governance.
• Engage with key Group and Business Unit Data stakeholders to understand how the Data Leadership Team can maximise the value data brings to Hiscox, driving associated activities and actions.
   

• Experience in a Business Management (or relevant/similar) role.
• Experience of implementing governance processes and ways of working.
• Demonstrable experience of using data to drive improvements (e.g. OKRs).
• Experience in managing financials/budgets and working with finance teams to ensure data provides accurate and meaningful insights to key stakeholders.
• Experience in managing risks (ideally related to data or technology), understanding of risk, compliance and knowledge of operational resilience requirements.
• Solid influencing and communication skills with the ability to manage interactions with suppliers/senior stakeholders effectively. 
• Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting to stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and able to articulate information credibly.
   

• Understanding of working within a regulated and audited environment.
• Previous Business Management experience in a Data function.
   

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