Head of Pricing, Retirement Services

Who We Are    At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.
We align to a set of Values that are the core pillars that define our culture and help bring our brand purpose to life:
* We are stronger as one:
We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act   decisively for our customers and partners.
* We deliver on commitments:
We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
* We learn, improve and innovate:
We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
* We are inclusive:
We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.
** About the role
** The SVP, Product Development will be responsible for the pricing of our Retirement Services products, including new business and in-force management. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership, technical expertise, and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to proactively manage pricing and rate setting functions. Our products include variable, fixed and index annuity products alongside defined contribution record keeping and related services.
** Why This Role Matters
** This leader will manage and develop a high-performing pricing team within Retirement Services and partner closely with Product Management, Distribution, Finance, Actuarial, and other key stakeholders to enable Corebridge to achieve its growth and profitability objectives. This position partners with peers to ensure the business meets or exceeds its strategic, financial, and operational goals. This role reports to the EVP of Product, Pricing and Investments.
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* Key Responsibilities:

*** Overseeing the pricing process, ensuring appropriate assumption, modeling methodologies, and profitability reporting
* Developing initial pricing scenarios for new and renewal business that balances firm objectives while competing effectively in the market. You must be comfortable advocating for recommendations with key decision makers and working with client facing teams to directly engage customers as needed on complex recommendations
* Provide real-time pricing analytics for all currently being sold in the market
* Partner with Finance and Actuarial to understand profitability on in-force annuity blocks, including maintaining the bridge from pricing output to actual financial results in partnership with our Finance and Actuarial teams
* Continuously refine our pricing models to better understand costs to serve, while collaborating with business partners
* Optimize profitability through a proactive review of financial and behavioral risk exposures and evaluation of in-force experience, including experience setting and assumption setting
* Ensure consistency where appropriate in all pricing assumptions and methodologies for all product lines, including consistency with financial reporting assumptions and methodologies where appropriate
* Serve as a Member of our Pricing Committee and maintain key governance routines
* Drive efficiency in pricing team processes

With crediting rate setting within this team, responsibilities include:
* Serve as member of Rate Setting Committee
* New business rate setting for all products and renewal rate setting for all products
* Rate setting methodology and its alignment with our strategy and decision making
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* Job Requirements:

*** 15+ years (with at least 5 in a leadership position) in pricing or other relevant actuarial roles
* BA/BS and Fellow in the Society of Actuaries (FSA) designation required
* Solid understanding of insurance company financials, including annuity pricing, risk management, GAAP and statutory accounting, regulatory issues
* Demonstrated collaboration skills and the ability to lead a team, including the support of continued growth & development of internal talent
* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and an ability to simplify complex concepts and to communicate to all levels of…