Commercial Data Product Owner

Overview

As Product Owner for data exploitation within Allianz Commercial, you own the vision, roadmap and backlog for a portfolio of data products and lead a cross-functional Scrum team from concept to value realization. You align with commercial data priorities across business domains, shaping data products that deliver practical value and a trusted data view. This high-visibility role focuses on using data to drive faster, better-informed decisions and improve customer and broker outcomes, with hybrid work from Guildford. You’ll collaborate with business and data colleagues to enable scaling and adoption of data-driven insights.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible benefits package
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance bonus
• Contributory pension
• Development days
• Employee discounts

Responsibilities

• Own the data product roadmap, vision and backlog for one or more business domains.
• Collaborate with business teams and data specialists to deliver trusted data views and measurable value.
• Improve data quality and ensure integration with workflows and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to use data to improve decision making and portfolio performance.
• Act as voice of the customer within the Scrum team, define epics and user stories, and prioritise backlog.
• Prepare for and contribute to Program Increment (PI) planning with clear objectives.
• Make timely decisions on what to build, balancing MVP with business benefit and deadlines.
• Build and nurture relationships with business owners, domain experts, and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrate progress to the business ahead of releases to support adoption.

Key requirements

• Experience in insurance or financial services, ideally with exposure to commercial insurance.
• Specialist knowledge in distributions, pricing, portfolio management or underwriting is beneficial.
• Strong interest in data and value creation from data products, analytics or AI/automation tools.
• Willingness to learn Product Owner role and Agile methods (Scrum/Kanban).
• Previous Product Owner experience is welcome but not essential.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, able to influence at all levels.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements.
• Critical thinking and sound judgement with a risk-based decision approach.
• Self-motivated team player who energises a cross-functional team.
• Experience with data products, analytics or AI/automation tools.

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