Head of Pricing Development

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Pricing Development in our Animal Health Pricing team. This strategic leadership role entails overseeing a team of six direct reports, with considerable scope and influence within the organization. You will be responsible to manage the development and deployment of tariff pricing engines and creation of impact analysis tools in order to support achieving the underwriting performance metrics detailed in the Corporate Plan.

Joining our team at this juncture offers the unique opportunity to contribute significantly to the future direction of our business.

The Head of Pricing Development will be committed to perpetually seeking innovation across all dimensions of pricing, including data analytics, software tooling, technical methodologies, and price optimisation to effectively deliver our sophisticated pricing strategies to the market.

The team is responsible for the creation of Scenario Testing tools, Radar Live pricing engines, and conversion models, thereby playing a central role in the realization of the company's strategic objectives.

This position is structured as a hybrid role, based at our Guildford office, with an expectation to work onsite 50% of the time.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

You’ll be at the sharp end of our business, delivering analytical models that are used to drive commercial decisions, solve challenging problems, and deliver enhancements to our products and pricing techniques. From data science modelling in cutting edge software to automating optimisation calculation routines.

• Lead the prioritisation of price model development in Radar Live and coordinate oversight of test procedures and results so that changes in AH pricing engines are delivered within given timeframe and according to the requirements.
• Support coordinating and implementing accurate impact analyses, simulations and tariff optimisations to achieve business targets.
• Lead the creation, updates and further improvements of impact analysis tools and conversion models.
• Manage the performance and development of the pricing team members, ensuring that appropriate resources, objectives and personal development plans are in place.
• Contribute to strategic and tactical business developments and projects by providing thought leadership and undertaking analysis as required to help deliver business objectives.
• Champion innovation by proposing new solutions and improving our pricing engines and impact analysis tools.
• Lead the continuous improvement of Pricing MI and Analysis requirement and process.

• Significant experience combining insurance pricing and data science in P&C insurance.
• Supervisory / management / team leadership experience.
• Proven ability to deliver projects with close collaboration with IT, underwriting, portfolio management, and marketing teams.
• Strong statistical modelling, feature engineering, data visualisation, and data interpretation skills when working with large volumes of complex data.
• Able to demonstrate a high level of numerical, analytical and logical reasoning skills.
• Expertise in using data analytics tools for example Python, SAS, SQL and WTW tools (Radar and Emblem).
• Experience of using Radar Live.

• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage.

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the…