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Job Title: Distribution and Marketing Data Product Manager

Division: Beazley Shared Services - Data Management

Location: Multiple Locations, US

Hybrid Role

Reports To: Head of Data Products

Key Relationships: Chief Data Office, Data Leadership Team, Data Owners, Distribution and Marketing, CRM, Data Governance and Quality, Data Stewards, Data Architects, Delivery Team members, Technology Team, Finance, Underwriting, Operations and other Business Stakeholders

Beazley:

Beazley is a global specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people,

communities, and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our products are wide ranging from cyber & tech to marine, healthcare, financial institutions, and contingency, covering risks like the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from all backgrounds. Collaboration in office spaces is important and we use a hybrid approach with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 1500 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We hire people with wide perspectives, and we have set bold diversity targets as we work towards excellence.

Data @ Beazley:

Our Data team supports Beazley's vision by...

* Being bold through pioneering & championing an exciting vision of how people interact with data

* Facilitating innovation by leading the pace of change in data & analytics, and facilitating the latest capabilities and innovative technologies

* Doing the right thing by providing a controlled working data environment that allows all business domains to thrive independently

* Being the single source of truth for enterprise-wide reporting metrics and KPIs

Our Data team is located at multiple offices across UK, Europe and the US. The specified home office location options provide the best balance for being co-located with key Data Office colleagues and business stakeholders.

The Role:

Data is one of Beazley's greatest assets and this roles is critical to supporting our Distribution and Marketing insights, which includes Customer, Broker and Marketing data. We're seeking a strategic and technically savvy Data Product Manager to lead the strategy, development and evolution of data products and insights that empower our distribution and marketing teams. This role is critical to aligning our data, unlocking insights, and informing growth opportunities across our specialty portfolio. In this role, you will also work to mature data literacy and capabilities as Beazley undertakes a significant investment in modernization, enabling you to embed a culture of data excellence and innovation in our delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with the global Distribution and Marketing team to understand, prioritize and develop data products and insights that support their business strategy.

• Build and own a roadmap to provide regular updates on delivery commitments for data products, insights, enhancements and queries.

• Manage stakeholder relationships to support the growth strategy for Beazley customers, brokers, teams and products.

• Produce insights and key data trendsthat highlight business performance, RoI, efficiencies and game-changing growth opportunities.

• Inspire the adoption and use of insights to drive decisions in investment and operations that improve efficiency and drive growth by leading demonstrations and hands on training sessions.

• Lead a team of Product Owners, Product Analysts, Business Analysts and a development team to deliver and maintain data products and insights; maintaining a backlog of work within Jira.

• Represent the business in data governance discussions, escalating issues as appropriate.

• Ensure that data product development considers policy, methodology and standards, and ensure these are adhered to during product development.

• Evaluate the performance of your data product portfolio against KPIs defined by the business and provide feedback on the value delivered.

• Proactively anticipate business needs and look for opportunities to bring innovation or new approaches into the user design, experience, product development and insights.

• Relentlessly focus on the Distribution and Marketing team as a customer, delivering high quality data and insights that are clear and inspire action.

• Partner with the Data Governance Group and CRM solution team (Customer Relationship Management) to drive improvements in our Customer and Broker data quality through MDM and other tools.

• Provide leadership, direction, development and support to direct reports (including off-shore resources).

Essential Criteria:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics or related field; Master's degree preferred

• Proven experience in data product management, marketing analytics or distribution strategy, preferably in insurance or financial services

• Experience working with data, building data models, and sharing insights

Skills and Abilities:

• Strategic and curious with the ability to design and develop data and insights that support our Distribution and Marketing team's goals, planning, performance and incentives that drive growth

• Understand the specialty insurance market, customer segmentation and distribution channels, with experience in North America, Lloyd's, Retail and Wholesale markets preferred

• Ability to lead workshops that help your stakeholders identify data needs and articulate their desired user experience, with the ability to build dashboards preferred

• Strong organization and communication skills with the ability to direct work, document requirements and present demos

• Advanced technical skills with the ability to dive into the data, identify anomalies, and provide high quality, trusted data

• Understanding of Specialty Insurance principles and key drivers to create opportunities, loyalty and growth

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience in Data Products, Data Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics or related fields in Insurance, Financial or sales organizations preferred

• Strong understanding of MDM and CRM systems and their use with Customer and Broker data

• Proficiency in data visualization (Power BI), analytics platform (Snowflake), dashboard design and data storytelling

• Experience working with insurance data, and in particular a strong understanding of pipeline intelligence for sales growth/ targeting and performance

• Ability to use predictive modeling to drive an understanding of performance, customer behavior, and prospective renewals/ growth to help the Distribution Sales team focus on the best opportunities

• Experience managing relationships and teams of stakeholders, business analysts, data analysts, data architects, data modelers, data engineers and testers using agile processes

• Skills in data engineering technologies like Kafka, Snowflake / Snowpark, DataBricks, Jira and Agile principles

• Experience in managing and manipulating large internal and external datasets

• Knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practices

• Driven and proven team player with ability to work with all levels in a highly intellectual, collaborative, and fast paced environment

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor them appropriately for different audiences, technical backgrounds, and seniority

Who We Are:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold
• Strive for better
• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Mentorship program
• External qualification sponsorship
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Secondment assignments

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $130,000-$150,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.

Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.

We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non-visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we'll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.

Job Summary:

The 2nd Shift Production Supervisor leads a multi-department team of CNC Operators and Set-Up Operators, in a high mix / low volume aerospace component manufacturing environment. This role is expected to balance expertise in set-up and operation of CNC machining for precision tolerance components, along with strong interpersonal skills to motivate the team to work toward common goals and objectives. Key responsibilities include managing the day-to-day priorities for multiple departments, cross-training staff on best practices to meet set-up and production run-times, optimizing processes through the elimination of waste, and leading lean continuous improvement initiatives. As a working supervisor, this role is expected to run production jobs and provide the necessary supervisory management to a small 2nd shift team.

This role is 100% in office at our plant in East Hartford, CT.

At HORST we offer a variety of benefits including but not limited to:

• Competitive PTO Package
• Paid Company Holidays
• 401K Match Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance Program

Essential Job Duties:

• Conduct security, quality and EH&S audits to ensure the safety of employees on the second shift, and compliance with company and customer policies.
• Coordinate time-off requests, with attention to skills matrix, to ensure adequate staffing level across all disciplines of machine centers to meet production needs.
• Motivate team to meet daily, weekly and monthly goals and objectives. Identify waste and non-value-added tasks that interfere with objectives.
• Routinely measure, monitor, and publish the performance of all individuals on the team. Compare results against department standards. Complete periodic performance evaluations, and correct any issues in real time as needed, up to and including, disciplinary actions if needed.
• Host a daily GEMBA walk and serve as the primary conduit for all communications between operators and cross functional teams. Attend production meetings, and quality clinic/MRB meetings as needed. Collaborate with engineering, purchasing, production and sales teams to drive open issues to rapid closure.
• Partner with production control to stage daily and weekly priorities. Ensure jobs are completed on time, and productivity is sustained. Expedite jobs as necessary.
• Set-up and operate CNC machines according to operation sheet instructions. Provide technical support for team.
• Maintain ERP data integrity ensuring job punches match traveler package. Report any discrepancies that could impact job quantity or delivery.
• Develop and author standard work for the operation of production equipment. Coach and train teammates in best practices, enforcing safety, departmental and QMS polices, with the goal of process improvement, reduction in set up time, faster productivity rates, and improved quality.

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years progressive career in the manufacturing of precision machined components in a regulated industry such as aerospace or medical. Previous experience in a high mix, low volume shop with an emphasis on lean manufacturing preferred.
• Working knowledge of ISO/AS quality standards, basic OSHA/EHS safety regulations, and a commitment to adherence of company policies.
• Advanced or expert machining skills in 1 or more disciplines. Swiss lathe, multi-axis turning, turning, milling, or grinding. Must be able to independently set-up and operate CNC equipment and provide the necessary training to others on shift.
• Experience leading and managing a small team toward common goals. An effective communicator that can build rapport with a diverse team. Previous team lead experience preferred.
• A willingness to take accountability for self and team, driving and inheriting the collective results of a department or team.
• High degree of urgency to drive operations at full speed. Keen sense of attention to detail to understand how to work with pace, not haste, avoiding careless mistakes.
• Strong understanding of operational metrics such as first past yield, efficiency, WIP aging, on-time-delivery, job cost, scrap rate, etc.
• Strong computer skills especially related to navigating ERP systems, job clocking systems, CAD/CAM software, and Microsoft products such Outlooks, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Previous experience with EPICOR a plus.

Physical Demands:

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Activity is not applicable to this position

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Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0-2.5 hours/day)

F (Frequently)

Position requires this activity up to 66% of the time (2.5-5.5 hours/day)

C (Constantly)

Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hours/day)

Lift/Carry 10-30lbs

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Stand

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Walk

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Manually manipulate

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Squat or kneel

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Bend

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Reach above shoulder

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Job Title: Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Fully Onsite in Farmington CT

Type: Direct Hire

Salary: $120-140K DOE Plus Bonus and Excellent Benefits (Flexible on base Salary, can go higher depending on experience)

Summary:

The Manufacturing Engineer – CNC Programming is responsible for developing, optimizing, and maintaining CNC programs and machining processes for complex, production aerospace components. This role owns the end-to-end programming and process development lifecycle, from CAM programming and tool selection through prove-out and production release, and post release support with a strong emphasis on Nickel Alloy, Titanium, Steel, Stainless Steel, and other difficult-to-machine materials.

The ideal candidate is a practical problem-solver who understands how programs behave in the real world and takes pride in delivering programs that run with few to no issues once released.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain CNC programs using Mastercam software for Okuma OSP, Haas, Fanuc and Makino machines
• Coordinate with engineering group to identify required features, tolerances, and run sequences.
• Own full program creation from concept through production release and ongoing optimization
• Define machining strategies, tooling approaches, and setup concepts for complex turning operations
• Support first article builds, prove-outs, and production ramp-ups
• Optimize programs and processes to reduce setup time, improve repeatability, and ensure consistent quality
• Collaborate with operators, quality, and engineering to ensure stable, production-ready processes
• Troubleshoot and improve existing programs as needed, with a focus on root cause and long-term solutions
• Ensure programs and documentation meet aerospace quality and regulatory requirements
• Publishes operator work instructions, set up sheets, parameter sheets as necessary

What Success Looks Like

• Programs are released cleanly and run with minimal edits or intervention
• Setups are clear, efficient, and repeatable across shifts
• Operators have confidence in the programs and supporting documentation
• Production issues related to programming are rare and resolved quickly when they occur

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of CNC programming experience in a production environment
• Proven history of lathe turning programming (VTL and Slant Bed)
• BS in aerospace engineering, manufacturing engineering or similar
• Experience machining Nickel alloys, Titanium and other challenging aerospace metals
• Solid understanding of CNC machining principles, tooling, and cutting strategies
• Ability to read and interpret complex engineering drawings and GD&T
• Proven ability to develop robust, repeatable machining processes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Mastercam
• Experience with Okuma, Makino, and Haas controls
• Background in aerospace manufacturing
• Ability to improve legacy or unstable existing programs and processes
• Machining background to support program prove-out (program, set-up, qualify tooling, run development pieces/qualification lot etc)

About Us

Founded in 2010, Top Prospect Group specializes in connecting high-quality candidates with top-tier clients. In 2023, we joined HW Staffing Solutions, expanding our national footprint across manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and technology.

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