Capability Lead

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand TOWER Insurance Full time

**Why you'll love working with Tower**

At Tower, we live and breathe our values - they are at the heart of every interaction. **Our people come first, **we pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that allows our people to thrive. Encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, we aim to represent the diverse communities we work in and with. We celebrate all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, and everything else that helps to make our culture special. We are proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks which are important to us.

We also have a plan to lead our industry forward into a more customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking, as a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider operating for over 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin.

**What will you be doing?**

At Tower, we are **progressing boldly** to align with future insurance trends. Reporting directly to our Head of Underwriting, you will make a significant impact by driving innovation, leveraging data insights and shaping strategic pricing decisions.

**Our customers are our compass. **We are committed to innovation, excellence and delivering unparalleled services to our customers. As we continue to push boundaries, we're seeking a visionary Capability Lead to join our team.

You can expect to be across the following:

- Support the capability of the Product, Pricing and Underwriting (PPUW) function and its members.
- Motivate teams, build strong capabilities and develop talent.
- Build and encourage consistent ways of working, including processes and tooling.
- Support the technical data capability of the Product, Pricing and Underwriting to meet the needs of the business.
- Lead data science, data analytics, and data automation activities through the ideation, analysis, recommendation and deployment stages
- Lead long term data strategy of Product, Pricing and Underwriting division including tooling, data model, data architecture and data requirements.
- Lead data testing process, risk controls and best practices
- Be comfortable in writing, troubleshooting, and testing sophisticated code or giving direction of these to junior team members.

**What you'll need**

You will bring your natural ability to collaborate across the organization, by utilizing your interpersonal skills to navigate cross-functional collaboration. Your knack for influencing strategic decisions through data-driven insights will be the key to shaping our organisations future.

***To be successful in this role, you will also be able to demonstrate the following**:

- 7+ years in a structured data professional role. Insurance or actuarial experience preferred.
- Well versed in data manipulation and data science programming languages such as SQL, R/Python. Geospatial skills would be a plus.
- Exceptional analytical/data analysis skills
- Working understanding of software and hardware requirements of different data capability needs
- Confidence and ability to lead projects and deliverables.
- Strong communication skills across various levels of the business
- Strategic thinking, developing medium to long term roadmaps for delivering data excellence.
- Training and mentoring junior team members.

We pride ourselves on encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, and we embrace diverse opinions, experience and backgrounds. Making sure **we do what's right**.

**What we'll bring to the table**

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

**Highlights include**:

- Our people come first as we offer 16 weeks of paid leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks of paid leave partner's leave.
- A paid day off on your birthday, as well as two extra annual leave days every year and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off
- Annual Performance Review where you get to showcase your progression.
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we also have programmes that recognise star performers.
- Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful 6 Green Star Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas.
- Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%
- Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary
- Paid parental leave top up for 16 weeks.
- Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more



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