Technical Pricing Manager

At 1st Central, everything starts with our people. As one of the UK’s leading motor and home insurers, we use smart technology, data and great service to make insurance fast, fair and simple for over 1.4 million customers. We’re proud to create an environment where people feel supported, trusted and able to grow—whether that’s developing new skills, taking on fresh challenges or making a real impact every day.

If you’re looking for a role where you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Pricing Manager to lead and develop a talented Technical Pricing team, driving the delivery of data‑led pricing solutions that support profitable growth, customer fairness, and strong commercial performance across our insurance products. In this role you’ll ensure the development and delivery of robust burn cost models, effective rating structures, data enrichment initiatives and pricing recommendations, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard, aligned to business objectives, and supported by robust governance, documentation and controls.

You’ll combine hands‑on technical pricing expertise with people management, project delivery and stakeholder engagement to support profitable growth, customer fairness and effective portfolio management.

We’re big on flexible hybrid working. Our teams are based across Salford Quays (Manchester), Haywards Heath (West Sussex) and Gibraltar. We primarily work from home but value collaboration, so we come together in person to keep ideas flowing, typically once a month. Prefer being in the office more often? That works for us too.

• Technical Pricing Expertise:
  Strong technical knowledge of motor insurance pricing, burn cost modelling, rating structures, underwriting risk and claims cost drivers, with experience of statistical modelling, predictive analytics or machine learning techniques within a general insurance pricing environment.
• Pricing Technology & Data Platforms:
  Proficiency in pricing and data tools such as WTW Radar, Databricks, Python, PySpark, SQL or similar platforms.
• Leadership & People Management:
  Proven ability to lead technical delivery through others, balancing hands‑on review with effective delegation, coaching and prioritisation. Experience in developing team capability through coaching, feedback, workload management, and performance feedback.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication:
  Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence colleagues across pricing, underwriting, claims, finance, product, trading, data and risk functions.
• Project Delivery & Governance:
  Solid project management capability, including planning, dependency management, governance, documentation and delivery against agreed timescales.

• You’ll manage and develop a team of technical pricing analysts, setting priorities, allocating work, monitoring delivery and supporting technical capability, engagement and performance.
• You’ll lead the delivery of technical pricing projects, including burn cost models, claims frequency and severity models, loss ratio analysis, rating structure reviews and model enhancements.
• You’ll provide technical reviews and challenge to analytical outputs, ensuring modelling approaches, assumptions, data inputs and recommendations are appropriate, accurate and well documented.
• You’ll oversee the monitoring, maintenance and improvement of existing predictive models, ensuring model performance is understood and action is taken where deterioration, volatility or opportunity is identified.
• You’ll translate technical analysis into clear, commercially balanced recommendations for the Head of Technical Pricing and wider senior stakeholders.
• You’ll work with the Head of Technical Pricing to shape and deliver the technical pricing roadmap, ensuring projects are prioritised, governed and delivered in line with business plans.
• You’ll collaborate with underwriting, retail pricing, claims, finance, data, product and trading teams to ensure technical pricing insight is understood and reflected in pricing, underwriting and portfolio management…