Data Visualisation Lead

Policy Expert – Data Visualisation Lead

🚀 We’re on a mission to make: The most successful insurance disruptor people want to stay with for life

Are you ready to transform the insurance industry with innovative technology? At Policy Expert, we are on a mission to revolutionize Home, Pet, and Motor insurance, making it clear, fair, and great value for customers. Since our inception in 2011, our breakthrough thinking and proprietary tech, have won us over 1.5 million customers and the title of the UK’s No.1-rated home insurance provider for 9 years. 🏆  

Hear from our team about what it's like working at Policy Expert ✨ 

About Group Data:

At Policy Expert, data is at the heart of everything we do, and our ambition is clear: our data and analytics will enrich every customer experience, optimize every business decision, and empower every colleague. The Exec and Board have committed significant investment to establish and mature our data capabilities, underpinned by a transformative Data Strategy built around three core pillars: Operating Model, Data & Analytics Platform, and Data Culture. We have five disciplines – Data Management, Engineering, Science, Analytics, and Visualisation – that collaborate with the rest of the business to drive incremental value through data, operational excellence, and business agility.

About the Data Visualisation team:

The Data Visualisation team at Policy Expert is responsible for bringing data to life through powerful, intuitive and actionable visualisations and reporting. The team owns, maintains, evolves and promotes the usage of our BI tooling (Looker), drives our strategic visualisation roadmap, and ensures that insights are accessible, actionable, and easily interpretable across the business. They empower business users with self-service capabilities, enabling independent exploration and confident, data-driven decision-making. They collaborate closely with other Group Data disciplines, Product management and business stakeholders to maximise the value of our data, continually adapting to industry trends and emerging technologies such as semantic layers, headless BI, and AI-powered insights.

Your day to day:

As a Data Visualisation Lead at Policy Expert, you will:

• Use a Design Thinking mindset and UX/UI best practice to build, and maintain compelling visualisations and dashboards in Looker, enabling the business to derive actionable insights quickly and intuitively.
• Take a leading role in setting the architectural and design standards for visualisation at Policy Expert, ensuring we minimise technical debt and key person dependencies, while creating a frictionless data experience for colleagues.
• Line manage a small team of developers, ensuring a culture of continuous learning, curiosity and playfulness to push the technical edge.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand their needs, translating complex data into clear, impactful visual stories.
• Empower users across the business by providing accessible, user-friendly self-service BI solutions, improving data literacy and confidence.
• Work closely with Data Engineering and Data Analytics to ensure data availability, correctness, and alignment with visualisation requirements in our Data & Analytics Platform.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance visualisation capabilities, integrating emerging trends such as semantic layers, headless BI, and AI-powered insights.
• Act as an advocate and educator for best practices in data visualisation, continuously improving how the organisation engages with and leverages data.

Who are you:

• A skilled Data Visualisation and BI professional with 5+ years hands-on expertise in BI tools, preferably Looker, or equivalent platforms such as Power BI, Tableau or Qlik Sense.
• Experienced in delivering coherent and reliable reporting suites to large groups of users in a complex, fast moving data estate. You do BI at scale.
• Experienced in creating visually compelling, intuitive dashboards and reports that deliver clear, actionable insights, enabling quicker and better business decisions.
• Proficient in SQL and comfortable working with modern cloud data warehouses (preferably BigQuery on GCP).
• Passionate about turning complex data into simple, elegant visualisations that drive understanding and engagement across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Confident collaborating with multiple business stakeholders to understand requirements, ensuring visualisations are user-focused, intuitive, and meaningful.
• Committed to fostering data literacy and empowering business users through self-service analytics capabilities.
• Enthusiastic about staying ahead of industry trends, continuously exploring and integrating innovative visualisation techniques and technologies.
• Strong communicator, able to effectively convey complex insights clearly and engagingly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Benefits:

📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.

💸 Generous Pension contribution scheme

🏥 Private medical & Dental cover

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)

😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity 

🚉 Travel season ticket loan

🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge

🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme

 

What We Stand for and Next Steps “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment” 

At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.

We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.

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