Principal Analyst - Design & Deployment

• Acting as the technical lead and subject matter expert within the Head Office Pricing function. Use your expertise to contribute to NFU Mutual’s largest transformation programme.
• Designing, building and implementing pricing models and rating logic to support robust, compliant pricing decisions
• 80% hybrid working with 20% from our Stratford Upon Avon Office

Working in Pricing at NFU Mutual feels genuinely different. With a clear focus on customers rather than shareholders, the team’s work has real impact, supporting local communities, protecting livelihoods, and helping our UK‑wide Agency Network deliver exceptional service. Our Pricing team is central to how we support our customers, and its role is becoming even more crucial. The team is now at the heart of one of NFU Mutual’s most significant transformation programmes, shaping how pricing will operate in the future to ensure fair, insight‑driven outcomes.

To deliver this transformation, the team is expanding and creating exciting opportunities to join at a pivotal moment. This is a rare chance to influence a high‑profile, business‑wide initiative where your work will be visible, valued and acted on. By working closely with colleagues across the business, you’ll play an important role in shaping NFU Mutual’s future. Beyond the transformation, you’ll join a Pricing team committed to continuous improvement, offering ongoing opportunities to grow, add value and make a real difference.

If you want to drive meaningful transformation while developing your own career, now is the ideal time to join us.

As a Principal Analyst, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and delivering high‑quality pricing solutions. Using your deep technical expertise across pricing disciplines, you’ll lead complex analytical work, act as an escalation point for technical queries, and ensure pricing outputs meet regulatory, business and customer expectations.

You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Pricing, Underwriting, IT and wider programmes, influencing decisions through insight and expertise. Alongside hands‑on analytical delivery, you’ll act as a technical role model, supporting colleagues through coaching, mentoring and change.

This is a senior technical role offering both hands‑on modelling and strategic influence, with opportunities to drive improvements in pricing capability, tools and ways of working.

• Lead on complex pricing analyses including data engineering, model design and algorithm development
• Design, build, review and continuously improve pricing models, rating algorithms and performance reporting
• Act as the technical escalation point, owning quality assurance of pricing models, data and outputs
• Ensure pricing solutions comply with regulatory, governance and reporting requirements
• Translate complex technical analysis into clear insights and recommendations to inform business decision‑making
• Coach, mentor and develop analysts, improving technical capability and supporting colleagues through change
• Build strong working relationships across Pricing, Underwriting, IT and programme teams to ensure effective delivery
• Identify and implement improvements to pricing processes, tools and methodologies
• Lead and plan pricing‑related projects and activities, managing delivery autonomously
• Deliver short‑term and one‑off initiatives as agreed with your Line Manager

• Strong technical experience within a pricing, analytics or actuarial environment
• Advanced experience designing, building and reviewing pricing models and rating algorithms
• Proficiency with pricing tools such as RADAR, EMBLEM, R or equivalent platforms
• Experience working with data, including data preparation, validation and query writing (e.g. SQL, SAS or R)
• Ability to communicate complex technical outputs clearly to non‑technical stakeholders
• Experience leading or overseeing technical work and acting as a subject matter expert
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
• A proactive, delivery‑focused mindset with the ability to manage work autonomously
• Experience with demand modelling, loss cost modelling or customer impact analysis
• Experience coaching or mentoring analysts
• Knowledge of…