Pricing Models Manager

This company is seeking a Pricing Models Manager to come join their Retail Pricing team. You’ll manage analyses and projects that continually improve the predictiveness of their claims cost models. They have vacancies across their Motor and Home teams.

• Location: London / Manchester
• Category: Non-life Actuarial
• Type: Permanent

Key Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Plan, manage, and review technical claims cost models, securing buy-in and support from key stakeholders
• Manage a reconciled process for rate series creation, and maintenance and deployment of models into live rates
• Consider the impact on customers of pricing actions and act to avoid any unfair treatment
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders on portfolio analytics
• Own pricing models including build, maintenance, and ongoing enhancements, taking models for approval pre-deployment, and the pricing quality control process
• Higher education in a mathematics or computer science related discipline, with equivalent grades of 2:1 or higher, or evidence of equivalent proficiency
• Advanced level knowledge of products such as Excel, Visual Basic, SAS, R, H2O, Python, SQL, Emblem and geographic analysis tools is essential
• Detailed understanding of appropriate statistical techniques for insurance risk analysis and demand pricing
• Ability to grasp the significance and meaning of a range of technical and complex issues relating to underwriting, claims handling, pricing, reserving and financial analysis of insurance
• Proven ability to plan and prioritise own work and the work of others with a continuous appetite to learn and develop skills