Introduction
Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.
We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.
Overview
Are you ready to take on a pivotal role at one of the world's leading insurance brokerage companies?
Gallagher is seeking a dynamic MI Portfolio Manager to join our team and oversee our MI pillar portfolios, including FP&A, Business, Client Advocacy, Carrier Management, Global Claims, Servicing, and Operations. These portfolios are crucial to both the strategic and operational management information reporting needs of our business.
Why Join Us?
At Gallagher, we are dedicated to investing in our people and their growth. As an MI Portfolio Manager, you will be instrumental in propelling our business forward by providing insightful and actionable management information. This role offers you the chance to collaborate with a diverse team of professionals, enhance your skills, and make a significant impact on our organisation.
If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for data and reporting, and you excel in a collaborative environment, we want to hear from you.
Apply Now!
Take the next step in your career by joining us at Gallagher and help us continue to deliver tailored and comprehensive insurance solutions to businesses around the world. Together, we can achieve great things.
How you'll make an impact
Our MI pillar portfolios – FP & A, and Business, Client Advocacy, Carrier Management, Global Claims, Servicing and Operations – represent both strategic and operational management information reporting needs of our business as a whole.
The Portfolio Manager oversees pillar portfolio reporting suites, ensuring alignment with the business stakeholders’ needs, the MI governance framework and the wider Gallagher Re strategies. Responsible for pilar working group facilitation, the Portfolio Manager prioritises, and plans for, business needs. They manage risks and issues and escalate through the Steering Committee to ensure delivery remains on track. Their oversight of the end-to-end lifecycle, ensuring resources are effectively allocated, risks and issues are mitigated, and deliverables are well-defined assures robust execution of high-quality management information reporting.
A trusted partner to key stakeholders in each region, the Portfolio Manager is a key enabler in delivering reporting that supports business decision-making, performance improvement and problem-solving.
Portfolio Management
Manage the pillar portfolio reporting projects and initiative within the MI governance framework
Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle ensuring that deliverables are defined, prioritised in the pillar working groups, and adequately resourced for development and testing
Identify and record issues and risks – escalating to the Steering Committee as required by the MI governance framework
Create detailed plans and a roadmap for pillar portfolio MI projects and initiatives
Maintain related artifacts e.g. risks and issues logs
MI Operations and Governance
Work with leadership to refine and implement the MI strategy specific to pillar portfolios
Ensure that MI development, working groups and team members adhere to data governance, MI governance and external frameworks relating to, for example, InfoSec, regulatory compliance, technology policies etc.
Establish reporting standards that drive consistency, accuracy and reliability of insights
Stakeholder Management & Engagement
Establish and maintain strong engagement with stakeholders as a trusted partner, achieved through delivery excellence and a broad understanding of their business, role, challenges and goals, and how management information reporting can support them.
Provide regular, formal updates to leadership and key stakeholders to demonstrate progress on roadmap deliverables, control of risks and issues, and report on performance against a set of defined goals and objectives for pillar portfolio MI
Validate alignment of business needs and their proposed solutions against Gallagher Re and Gallagher strategies where appropriate and escalate issues as appropriate.
Team Leadership
Directly manage the technical business analysts and indirectly manage offshore development resources
Embrace cross-functional and matrix working, establishing cohesive, highly collaborative ways of working through the pillar working group and related activities.
Work with leadership and change function to support change management efforts specifically relating to adoption of MI governance framework, self-service reporting and ways of working
Work closely with the Delivery Managers to ensure that teams are adequately resourced and skilled
Data, Digital and Technology interfaces
Ensure that appropriate MI tools are used, and related policies adhered to, to deliver MI reporting
Stay up to date on the latest planned activities in relation to Data, Digital and Technology
Collaborate with Digital and input into digital development relating to internal, digital MI delivery mechanisms and design standards
Keep abreast of emerging technologies, or key and major updates relating to existing technologies
About You
- Relevant practical experience in MI/data analytics management and previous practitioner experience in Insights/Report/Data Analyst type roles
- Familiarity with project/development methodologies e.g. Agile
- Experience of Azure DevOps or similar tools
- Strong understanding of reporting tools and practices e.g. Power BI, data visualisation
- Knowledge and practical experience of databases and data platforms e.g. SQL, databases, data warehousing, Snowflake
- Understanding of data governance, and regulatory compliance
- Innovation and growth-oriented
- Demonstrable experience of development and implementing strategies for MI
- High degree of communication agility, able to manage competing and complex stakeholder needs
- Experience of managing and prioritising multiple initiatives e.g. projects, related to data products
- Ability to manage and develop insight and reporting practitioners e.g. technical business analysts, data/insight analysts
- Highly analytical and critical thinker
- Experience of working with teams concurrently across different geographical regions
- Able to anticipate risk realisation, issues and other challenges and manage appropriately
- Able to balance tactical and strategic solutions to ensure execution pace and alignment to strategy
- Eligibility to work in the UK
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, 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 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover 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 shop 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. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
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 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. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
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, color, 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. In addition, 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.
