Group Head of Property Pricing

Job Summary

Head of Property Pricing – Full time, Employee – Hybrid Work Arrangement –

Location:

USA – New York. Primary focus: develop and implement pricing strategy, oversee technical pricing framework, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver consistent, quality technical pricing.

• Provide leadership and oversight to ensure the Group Property technical pricing framework is delivered consistently across divisions, aligned with Group Pricing Standards and return‑on‑capital objectives.
• Develop and maintain the Group Property technical pricing framework, with a strong emphasis on enhancing the quality of technical pricing and building confidence in technical rate adequacy as a strategic enabler for portfolio management and decision‑making.
• Lead and develop an offshore team responsible for sourcing, transforming, and validating divisional data, and for building non‑Catastrophe Property peril models using appropriate modelling techniques in collaboration with divisional pricing teams.
• Work closely with the Catastrophe Modelling team to integrate Cat model outputs including allocated reinsurance costs and capital costs to produce a comprehensive total technical price.
• Oversee deployment of pricing tools into underwriting workflows, ensuring solutions meet underwriter requirements and meaningfully support risk selection and pricing decisions.
• Monitor and challenge pricing performance, including rate change and rate adequacy, and provide actionable insights to support portfolio optimisation and profitability targets.
• Collaborate with underwriting, portfolio management, product committee, and claims to improve data quality, enhance pricing insight, and ensure consistent application of technical pricing.
• Represent global pricing community in Property product committees and provide technical expertise to support data‑driven decisions.
• Contribute to pricing transformation initiatives, including tool enhancement, infrastructure improvements, and adoption of new methodologies and technologies.
• Provide leadership and engage with the global pricing community to align Group and Divisional teams, balancing standardisation with local market requirements and divisional needs.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the Global Pricing Strategy.
• Lead the ongoing evolution of the Property pricing operating model, including prioritisation, delivery cadence, and effective alignment across Group, offshore and divisional pricing teams to support scalable pricing solution delivery.

• Delivering pricing tools and developing leading‑edge pricing techniques.
• Strong experience in insurance pricing, with a focus on Property or Specialty lines, ideally within commercial or large corporate portfolios.
• Deep understanding of end‑to‑end pricing, including model development, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Experience working with pricing tools and integrating models into underwriting systems and workflows.
• Exposure to global or cross‑regional pricing initiatives, with an appreciation of balancing standardisation and local market requirements.
• Commercially minded with the ability to challenge and influence stakeholders, bringing the confidence to balance technical rigour with practical decision‑making.
• Collaborative approach, with experience working across underwriting, portfolio management and data teams to drive consistent and effective pricing outcomes.

• Relevant industry qualifications.
• Qualified Actuary with extensive business experience working as a Pricing Actuary.

Salary range: $210,000 – $315,000 annually. Additional compensation may include QBE’s annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.

QBE provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; gender; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; protected veteran status; or disability or any other legally protected status. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.