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Head of Customer Analytics

London, UK
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Head of Customer Analytics

Domestic & General
London, UK
Any
Domestic & General
Actively hiring

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Head of Existing Customer Analytics – Service and Lifetime Value Optimisation

Division

Data & Underwriting

Department

Strategic Analytics

Location

Wimbledon – hybrid / flexible

Reporting to

Director of Strategic Analytics

Direct Reports

5


Job Summary

As Head of Existing Customer Analytics, you will lead a high-impact team responsible for delivering data-driven insights that shape how Domestic & General serves, retains, and optimises the relationship and value with its customer base.

You will own the analytics strategy across the end-to-end service journey, from digital claims and repair booking through to engineer visits and post-service feedback, across the UK and EU.

The role combines customer value optimisation and risk management, informing fraud detection and prevention strategies, deepening customer relationships, reducing churn, and maximising lifetime value through advanced analytics and technology.

This is a strategic yet hands-on role, blending advanced analytics with strong commercial judgement to influence key business decisions and long-term value growth.


Strategic Impact

  • Drive transformation in how service is designed, delivered, and experienced across the UK and EU, improving customer outcomes while driving cost efficiency

  • Improve end-to-end journey performance by identifying root causes of service friction and enabling proactive resolution

  • Own analytics across cross-channel journeys (digital, contact centre, field service), ensuring full visibility and continuity

  • Inform and shape complaint handling strategy

  • Drive customer lifetime value optimisation and influence underwriting, pricing, and product design using real customer behaviour

  • Reduce churn across millions of policies through data-led strategies

  • Lead fraud prevention through advanced analytics and evidence-based recommendations

  • Champion a data-led approach to existing customer strategy across retention, operations, and service delivery

  • Partner closely with MI teams to inform business and regulatory reporting


Decision Making & Influence

  • Act as a senior advisor to leadership on customer value dynamics, behavioural trends, and service efficiency

  • Influence decisions across Customer Service, Claims, Operations, Fraud, Product, and Marketing

  • Shape retention strategies, including incentive design, intervention timing, and contact optimisation

  • Own prioritisation of analytical work across service improvement, fraud risk, and churn reduction, balancing short-term performance with long-term value


Knowledge, Expertise & Scope

  • Strong background in customer analytics, service operations, and lifetime value modelling

  • Proven experience using advanced analytics techniques (segmentation, predictive modelling, regression, clustering) to solve commercial problems

  • Strong understanding of customer churn dynamics, complaint drivers, and fraud behaviours

  • Knowledge of appliance insurance, general insurance, or similar regulated sectors is highly desirable

  • Strong SQL capability (or equivalent) is a plus

  • Excellent data visualisation and storytelling skills (e.g. Power BI)

  • Strong commercial acumen with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset


Leadership & Culture

  • Lead the Existing Customer Analytics function with a clear vision, roadmap, and performance framework aligned to executive priorities

  • Build and develop a high-performing, insight-led analytics team

  • Mentor and coach team members to strengthen both analytical capability and commercial awareness

  • Represent analytics in key forums (e.g. underwriting, retention, service transformation steerco)

  • Champion continuous improvement and data-informed decision-making across the business

  • Foster a collaborative, inquisitive, and delivery-focused culture combining technical rigour with commercial thinking


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the service analytics strategy across UK and EU markets, owning analytics for cross-channel journeys

  • Analyse customer interactions, service journeys, and complaints to improve service levels, NPS, customer effort, and cost efficiency

  • Lead root cause analysis of complaints and service breakdowns, driving accountability and improvement

  • Conduct deep-dive analysis into service bottlenecks, repeat visits, escalations, and cost drivers

  • Monitor and improve service outcomes including time to repair, first-time fix rates, engineer performance, and SLA compliance

  • Develop actionable insights to guide retention strategies and maximise lifetime value

  • Lead fraud analytics and partner with underwriting to detect and prevent fraudulent behaviour

  • Monitor and report on key customer metrics, including lifetime value and product usage

  • Support pricing and underwriting teams with behavioural insights for value optimisation

  • Partner with MI teams to automate reporting and dashboards, improving access to insight across the business


Key Relationships

  • Director of Strategic Analytics

  • Director of Service Operations

  • Network Operations Director

  • Head of Product

  • Commercial Finance Director

  • Head of Underwriting

  • Director of Decision Science

  • Director of Data Strategy

  • Head of Retention

  • CIO and CTO

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