Head of Pricing, Middle Market

This role is part of the Pricing & Analytics team supporting AXA XL’s Insurance Division. You will be responsible for driving market-leading pricing capabilities and support for all America’s Middle Market products including US and Canada. As the Head of Pricing you will work closely with the Head of Middle Market, Americas to monitor profitability and help drive profitable underwriting decision making.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Ensure all Middle Market Americas lines of business have market-leading technical pricing and portfolio management capabilities through robust engagement with underwriting and collaboration with product pricing teams.
• Act as a key member and influencer on the Americas Middle Market leadership team.
• Lead, develop and motivate a high performing team.
• Ensure technical pricing is compliant with regulatory filings whilst incorporating proprietary pricing insights to drive underwriting decisions.
• Develop robust portfolio management capabilities to support business intelligence and management information, including core pricing metrics.
• Drive appropriate consistency in pricing and portfolio analysis across Americas Middle Market whilst ensuring consistency across the broader AXA XL Insurance products.
• Support state rate filings specific to the middle market portfolio.
• Ensure the team stays abreast of regulatory, market trends and technological changes that affect pricing.
• Collaborate with the broader Pricing & Analytics teams, UW leadership, reserving, finance, regulatory and capital modelling
• Ensure efficiency of pricing processes within Americas Middle Market.
• Ensure compliance of pricing guidelines.
• Support and encourage the usage of pricing models and metrics, delivering training of underwriters as necessary.

You will report to Head of Pricing, Americas.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Extensive non-life actuarial pricing experience, including experience in the commercial middle market space and experience working with admitted products
• ACAS required, FCAS preferred
• Robust business acumen, demonstrating knowledge of market challenges and opportunities and implications of decisions
• Leadership skills to work collaboratively with colleagues to build consensus.
• Experience in delivering US rate filings.
• Robust written and verbal communications skills to gain buy-in to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external clients.
• Resourceful and innovative – meeting challenges with new ideas and alternative solutions and leveraging the capabilities of AXA XL

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business – property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

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