Pricing Manager - Travel

Admiral is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager within our Travel Insurance department. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role at a pivotal stage of growth. Our Travel business is expanding rapidly, pricing approaches are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the team is growing both in size and expertise. This role follows a hybrid model, with a requirement to be in our Cardiff office once a week
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At Admiral, Pricing has always been a fundamental cornerstone of our success. While the wider travel industry remains relatively simple in its pricing approach, often relying on basic tools and limited data, we have a unique opportunity to lead the way. By leveraging Admiral’s group-wide pricing capabilities, we aim to build more advanced, data-driven pricing strategies and create a sustainable competitive advantage.

We’re looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking pricing leader who is passionate about challenging the status quo within the travel insurance space. You’ll lead one of our key pricing pillars, managing a team of analysts while shaping rating structures, exploring new data sources, strengthening controls, and driving innovation across pricing.

• Lead and continuously enhance pricing and rating structures to improve performance
• Drive competitive advantage through smarter rate change management, data use and risk selection
• Identify and deliver strategic pricing opportunities to support sustainable growth
• Use modelling and market insights to inform pricing decisions and forecast impact
• Analyse large loss trends and embed insights into pricing strategy
• Ensure pricing decisions meet regulatory requirements, including fair pricing practices
• Oversee end-to-end rate changes, ensuring accurate implementation and strong governance
• Improve data quality and insight to support better decision-making
• Coordinate prioritisation, delivery and monitoring of pricing changes
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment and effective delivery
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing pricing team

• Proven leadership experience within Insurance Pricing, demonstrated experience
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to manage workload effectively for both yourself and your team, delivering high-quality outputs
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience building business cases and evaluating pricing strategies
• Degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate subject (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Economics)
• Experience with programming tools such as SAS, SQL, Big Query or similar (training provided)
• Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

• Proven experience Insurance Pricing, including development and optimisation of pricing or rating structures
• Proven leadership experience, managing and developing pricing teams
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, modelling and insight to drive pricing decisions
• Experience with pricing tools and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, Big Query) and a numerate degree (2:1 or above)

This is not an exhaustive list, but it highlights the key responsibilities and what success in this role looks like.

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