Lead Data Science - £140k - Insurer Transformation

Lead Data Scientist - Perm - Data Science Transformation - Insurance

A global insurance leader is seeking a visionary Data Science Guild Lead to unify and drive innovation across its data science community. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of data science, machine learning, and AI within a major organisation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders.

What You'll Do:

Build and lead a centralised Data Science Guild, fostering collaboration, standardisation, and innovation across business units. Guide teams from siloed ways of working to a cohesive, high-performing community. Drive the development and delivery of cutting-edge data science, ML, and AI products, ensuring best practices and robust governance. Work closely with engineering, platform, and AI teams to deliver impactful solutions. Champion a culture of experimentation, learning, and resilience-where innovation is encouraged and calculated risks are embraced. Directly and indirectly manage a diverse team (approx. 30-40), with opportunities for growth and progression.

Location/Hybrid: 3 days to the City of London Office (non-negotiable)

Salary: £140,000 + bonus

Requirements:

Proven hands-on data science leadership (recent coding not essential, but strong Python knowledge required). Deep understanding of ML, AI engineering, solution architecture, and the full development lifecycle. Experience building teams, setting standards, and delivering measurable outcomes. Comfortable managing large, multidisciplinary teams and collaborating across functions. Insurance or financial pricing experience is desirable but not essential. Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills. Desirable experience within pricing (Financial)

If you're seeking a rare opportunity to influence and change a global insurance firm's data science operations, a true achievement where your ideas will be tried in an environment that knows the risks of innovation. Please get in touch with an up to date CV to get a conversation rolling!

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.