Head of Data Solutions

Overview

The Head of Data Solutions leads the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of data products across Gallagher. This role ensures high quality, trusted, and scalable data assets are delivered to support the UK Business and corporate reporting and analytical needs to enable business objectives. The role blends product leadership, data strategy, and stakeholder management to turn data into measurable business value.

This role will report to the UK Chief Data Officer to support the UK data strategy and align with the global Enterprise Management team to support the global data strategy.

The role will be based from our London City office and offers flexible hybrid working with 2 3 days per week on site.

How you'll make an impact Data Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and own the UK data product strategy aligned to business growth, regulatory obligations, and digital transformation priorities.
• Develop a clear and defined roadmap for data products that support UK and global business operations (e.g. corporate reporting, regulatory, Gallagher Digital, Finance, Single Customer View).
• Champion a product led approach to data, ensuring each product has defined value, users, SLAs, and measurable outcomes.
• Act as the senior authority on data solutions, advising senior leadership on risks, opportunities and investments related to data.

Product Lifecycle Ownership

• Establish the Data Product Lifecycle framework to ensure data products being created and/or actively used are reliable, trustworthy, and consistently deliver value.
• Oversee the end to end lifecycle of all data products: discovery, design, build, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement; ensuring data products evolve with business priorities.
• Establish product standards, documentation, and governance frameworks.
• Ensure data products are scalable, secure, and compliant with UK regulatory requirements (FCA, PRA, GDPR).

Stakeholder & Business Engagement

• Partner with business teams and operations to understand business needs and translate them into product requirements.
• Act as the voice of internal and external customers to Gallagher UK for internal data consumers.
• Communicate product vision, progress, and value to senior leadership.
• Deliver training, workshops and communication campaigns to raise awareness of data product principles and best practices supporting the adoption and onboarding of data products.

Data Quality, Governance & Compliance

• Ensure data products meet high standards of accuracy, lineage, timeliness and completeness.
• Partner with the Head of Data Governance and Quality to embed ownership, stewardship and metadata management.
• Support the development of business glossaries and data dictionaries for Gallagher UK and the creation of data products; this includes adoption of Gallagher's data cataloguing and lineage tool.
• Execute the delivery of Master and Reference data products, working alongside Data Governance and Data Technology to establish the MDM strategy and deliver critical business products such as Single Customer View and reference data sets.
• Oversee compliance with GDPR, data ethics and insurance specific regulatory requirements.
• Participate in data governance committees and provide expertise and guidance on data product initiatives.

About you

• Proven experience leading data product teams or data strategy functions within insurance or financial services.
• Previous experience and understanding of insurance data domains: underwriting, pricing, claims, actuarial, risk and customer.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale data products in a complex, regulated environment.
• Expertise in modern data platforms, cloud technologies and data architecture concepts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including influencing senior leaders.
• Experience with agile product delivery and product management frameworks.
• Understanding of UK regulatory requirements (GDPR, FCA, PRA).
• Experience in agile methodology (Scrum).
• Experience with machine learning, AI or advanced analytics products.
• Background in data governance, metadata management or data quality frameworks.
• Prior experience in digital transformation or modernisation programmes.
• Professional certifications (e.g. Agile, Product Management, DAMA, cloud certifications).

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary and great teams, we also offer a wide range of benefits. Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get; depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to buy extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4 your basic annual salary, with option to top up to 10 .
• Income protection, covering up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.

Other benefits include

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shopping or next big purchase.
• Emergency back up family care.
• And many more.

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organisation.

Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident and committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities; if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. If you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please let us know. You may get in touch with or request a phone call.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, colour, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as "protected characteristics") by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.