Transformation Analysis & Strategy Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Partner into leadership to define, shape, and deliver strategic initiatives across the enterprise.
• Act as a core member of the Transformation management team, contributing to high-level planning and decision making.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including executive leaders, investors, and third‑party vendors.
• Provide strategic insight grounded in data analytics, financial modelling, and market understanding, particularly within the insurance sector.

• Champion a data-science-informed approach, enabling data-led decision making across the enterprise.
• Build compelling, investment-ready business cases with clear benefit profiles and tracked, realisable value.
• Develop high-quality executive-level materials, including board papers, investment decks, and performance updates.
• Build and review financial models (CapEx, OpEx, exceptional items) to support strategic decision-making.

• Lead, nurture, and grow a small team of business analysts and change professionals, fostering a culture of excellence.
• Coach and mentor junior and senior team members, ensuring high-quality delivery and strong career development pathways.
• Step in to assume team responsibilities if required, supporting business needs during periods of change or transition.

• Oversee multiple complex initiatives simultaneously, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy and target outcomes.
• Promote continuous improvement across the Transformation Office and Davies Enterprise-wide, embedding Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and other process improvement methodologies.
• Guide the function through delivery maturity, helping teams adopt stronger practices, structures, and ways of working.
• Drive effective matrix working, ensuring clarity, collaboration, and accountability across organisational boundaries.

• Manage and oversee third-party vendors, ensuring value for money, performance accountability, and aligned delivery.
• Ensure all initiatives are governed effectively, with appropriate cadence, reporting, risks, and mitigation structures.
• Provide challenge and upward management to executive leaders to secure timely decisions and delivery-critical inputs.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 10-15yrs experience data science and/or consulting management role under strategy, transformation, or change.
• High‑energy, self‑directed change agent who takes end‑to‑end ownership of investment and project delivery to drive measurable value creation.
• Strong understanding of data science concepts and their application in enterprise decision making.
• Deep knowledge of process improvement methodologies, including Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile.
• Proven ability to manage multiple high-priority work pacakages simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and executive storytelling.
• Expertise in building business cases, financial models, and investor-level strategic materials.

• Consulting background, with experience delivering within complex, matrixed organisations.
• Experience within the financial services sector, ideally with significant exposure to insurance.
• Experience working within a private equity–backed environment.
• Familiarity with large-scale digital, operational, or technology-enabled transformation.

• Big picture thinker with strong commercial acumen.
• Highly polished communicator with strong executive presence.
• Collaborative, influential, and effective at managing up and across.
• High energy, resilient, adaptable, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Passionate about developing people and elevating organisational capability.
• Sets clear success metrics up front (ROI, payback, KPI baselines); reports before/after impact.
• Operates with minimal oversight; escalates only on risks/decisions that unblock value.
• Shortens time‑to‑value via iterative delivery and rapid benefit capture.
• Challenges legacy processes; brings data to drive decision and prove benefits realisation.