Actuarial Senior Lead - Pricing

Primary Details

Time Type:
Full time

Worker Type:
Employee

The Opportunity: The purpose of this role is to provide expert actuarial advice to support sustainable and profitable pricing decisions across assigned products and portfolios. The role leads the development, review, and governance of pricing methodologies, models, and tools, ensuring alignment with business strategy, risk appetite, and actuarial standards. This position acts as a key partner to Underwriting, Claims, and Finance, translating complex actuarial analysis into clear pricing insights, and ensuring that pricing decisions are technically sound, commercially relevant, and appropriately governed.

• Location: New York, NY
• Work Arrangement: This role is hybrid, where you will be expected to be in the office 2-3 days per week.
• Salary range for this role is: $ - , depending on experience

• Analyze and price reinsurance treaty business and ensure conclusions and recommendations are analytically robust and clearly supported by data and models.
• Present complex analyses in a clear, structured manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide support to underwriters to negotiate terms and structures to meet business goals, including support in broker meetings and calls.
• Maintain and continuously improve actuarial methodologies, models, and reporting practices to meet evolving business needs.
• Develop monitoring and ad-hoc reporting to track pricing performance, profitability, and variance from expectations.
• Perform deep-dive portfolio and product analyses, identifying performance drivers, trends, and emerging risks.
• Proactively identify and evaluate opportunities to improve portfolio mix, pricing actions, and underwriting strategies.
• Contribute to business planning and forecasting.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, delivering timely, relevant, and actionable insights. Internal stakeholders include underwriting, claims, finance and senior leadership.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within actuarial function.

• Progressive experience within actuarial career, preferably with exposure to pricing Property and Casualty insurance and/or reinsurance.
• Solid background in (re) insurance, including reserving and/or pricing.
• Experience in developing and modifying actuarial models.

• Actuarial qualification or progress toward qualification strongly preferred (e.g., FCAS, ACAS, or equivalent), where applicable.

The salary range for this role is provided above. Beyond the base salary, regular full-time and part-time employees will also be eligible for QBE’s annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.

• Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office.
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis.
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%.
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice.
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education.
• Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community.

QBE is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search for and apply for a career opportunity with QBE, please inform our Talent Acquisition team to let us know the nature of your accommodation request and your contact information.

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.

• Actuarial Science
• Analytical Thinking
• Conflict Resolution
• Critical Thinking
• Decision Making
• Financial Products
• Intentional collaboration
• Managing performance
• Performance Management (PM)
• Problem Solving
• Project Scoping
• Risk Management
• Sound Judgment
• Stakeholder Management
• Statistical Analysis Software (SAS)