Commercial Data Product Owner

Overview

In this role, you own the vision, roadmap and backlog for data products within Allianz Commercial, leading a cross-functional Scrum team from concept to value delivery. You align data initiatives with business priorities, turning insights into practical tools and dashboards that inform decisions and improve performance. You will champion data governance, quality and integration into workflows, while building strong relationships with business and data colleagues. This high-visibility role offers the opportunity to transform how a commercial insurer works through data-driven product leadership.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• Flexible benefits
• Discounts on insurance products

Responsibilities

• Own the data product roadmap and backlog for a portfolio of data products
• Define epics and user stories, act as voice of the customer within the Scrum team
• Collaborate with business teams and data specialists to deliver trusted data views and measurable value
• Drive data quality improvements and ensure data integrates with workflows and reporting
• Identify and prioritise opportunities to turn data into practical tools, dashboards and products
• Prepare for and contribute to Program Increment (PI) planning with vision, roadmap and objectives
• Make decisions on MVP versus business benefit and time-critical needs
• Build and maintain relationships with business owners, domain specialists, PO peers, Release Train Engineers and Programme Leads
• Regularly demonstrate progress to enable adoption ahead of releases

Key requirements

• Experience in insurance or financial services, ideally exposure to commercial insurance
• Beneficial knowledge in Distribution, Pricing, Portfolio Management or Underwriting
• Interest in data, data products, analytics or AI/automation tools
• Willingness to learn Product Owner role and Agile ways of working (Scrum or Kanban)
• Previous Product Owner experience welcome but not essential
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, with ability to influence at all levels
• Experience translating business needs into clear requirements and creating a risk-based decision approach
• Self-motivated team player who energises cross-functional teams

• Excellent communication
• Stakeholder management
• Influencing at all levels
• Data products
• Analytics or AI/automation tools
• Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)

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