Job Title: Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: Up to £70k DOE
Location: Eastleigh
Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic: Are you passionate about data and analytics? Do you have a knack for leading teams and driving business growth through innovative pricing strategies? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
As a Lead Pricing Analyst at Ageas, you will spearhead detailed data analysis using advanced actuarial and statistical techniques. Your insights will directly influence our pricing actions, helping to boost volume, income, and profit. Your work will have a significant impact on our future profitability and growth, with key targets to increase conversion, retention, and achieve target loss ratios.
Main Responsibilities as Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic:
- Model Development: Lead the creation, validation, and review of predictive models, including machine learning models. Present and recommend models for risk pricing.
- Data Accuracy: Ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of data used for modelling, pricing, and monitoring.
- Pricing Analysis: Conduct and lead pricing analyses, preparing options for senior stakeholders. Clearly present and communicate your findings to gain stakeholder buy-in.
- Dashboard Development: Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards that meet business needs.
- Data Assessment: Evaluate new internal and external data to enhance risk pricing. Build and present cost-benefit analyses to stakeholders.
- Project Management: Oversee the execution and development of projects across all stages of the price control cycle.
- Collaboration: Work closely with underwriting and pricing teams to deliver strategic initiatives. Inform and influence peers across Ageas.
- Market Trends: Identify and monitor market trends that could impact our pricing and underwriting.
- Tender Support: Provide risk pricing support for tender responses, working closely with Distribution and Underwriting teams
Skills and experience you need as Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic
- A strong quantitative degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or a related field.
- Experience in a data-driven environment, with knowledge of insurance products and distributions.
- Proficiency in statistical techniques and programming languages (e.g., SAS, R, Python).
- Experience with predictive modelling techniques and tools like Emblem and Radar.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Strong communication skills, with the confidence to present technical analyses to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships across the business.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to consider market conditions in pricing proposals.
- Leadership skills to manage and develop junior analysts.
- Timely delivery of high-quality pricing projects.
- Proficiency in data, modelling, pricing, and reporting tasks.
- Accuracy and reliability of data, models, pricing rates, and reports.
- Innovation in developing new analytical solutions.
- Strong teamwork and relationship-building across the business.
- High-quality reports and proposals with clear communication.
- Efficient management of resources and development of direct reports.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic role based in Eastleigh:
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageasgives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave
About Ageas:
We’re one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see our Diversity and Inclusion pages.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about about our Award Winning team and culture, please visit Careers at Ageas.
Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
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