Data Management - Leader

Job Summary

The head of Data Management is responsible for building F&Gs long-term data & analytics strategy, leading our data maturity assessment and roadmap creation, ensuring data quality and governance, fostering a culture that embraces data & analytics, and partnering with leaders across the enterprise to leverage data and analytics to improve decisions, efficiency, and firm performance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Propose and build the go-forward structure and operating model for the Data & Analytics Office including but not limited to data owners and data stewards throughout the F&G organization
• Define the multi-year strategic roadmap for data & analytics by collaborating with the business and technology leaders to define scope, priorities, and implementation plan with a "one portfolio" mindset
• Has primary responsibility for data governance, data strategy, data solutions, data quality standards, and maintaining data to support analytics across the firm
• Identify and drive key use cases that create strategic and transformational value for our employees and investing businesses
• Ensure data integrity and quality by governing the aggregation, monitoring, testing, metadata management and implementation and adoption of the Data Catalog
• Chair the Data Platform Council, in partnership with other F&G Leaders, to define, identify, and acquire third party data to integrate with our existing data assets; create new, actionable offerings that can be leveraged by the firm to drive improvements for operational efficiency and better insights
• Lead strategic data & analytics discussions and work directly with the other key leaders to link their strategies and plans with those of the data & analytics roadmap to ensure alignment
• Demonstrate thought leadership and recommend innovative solutions. Stay up-to-date with new data technologies and analytical tools and techniques while identifying new external trends and innovations
• Provide transparency into planning and funding of data & analytics initiatives that impact the roadmap
• Build organizational capability and drive a culture enabled by data & analytics
• Work collaboratively with Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams and other IT leaders to accomplish IT and business goals

Experience and Education Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in a leadership role with a minimum of 7+ years' experience in strategic data management roles with a track record of driving business outcomes
• Bachelor's Degree required, MBA preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Strong leadership experience including building and motivating teams
• Experience and interest in the Life and Annuity Insurance domain
• Strong experience building out, articulating, and delivering on business cases around data use and/or a data-centric business strategy
• Strong experience with Master Data Management (MDM) concept, tools as well as data warehousing concepts, techniques and best practices
• Experience with data science tooling and ecosystems, delivery of data discovery and data analytic solutions, and statistical libraries (e.g., python)
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation, facilitation, influencing, and consensus building skills
• High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly
• Must possess strong analytical, strategic, project management, decision-making and problem-solving skills