Lead Pricing Analyst

Job Title:Lead Pricing Analyst
Contract Type:Permanent Part Time Full Time Job Share option available
Salary Range:Up to 60000 depending on experience
Location:Hybrid within the UK with the expectation to travel to London Office monthly.
Closing Date for applications:3rd August

Lead Pricing Analyst:Were excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our Saga Home Affinity Pricing team as a Lead Pricing Analyst. This is a high impact role where your expertise will directly shape pricing strategy support sustainable growth and improve long term profitability across the business.

Youll lead complex pricing projects work with sophisticated data and modelling techniques and collaborate closely with colleagues across underwriting finance and distribution. Just as importantly youll help build pricing capability within the team and influence the future direction of risk pricing at Ageas UK

Were looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems sharing knowledge and making a real difference while working in a supportive inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued.

Main Responsibilities as Lead Pricing Analyst:

• Leading pricing and modelling projects delivering high quality recommendations that support volume profitability and loss ratio targets
  
• Developing validating and approving predictive and machine learning models and supporting their deployment into live pricing environments
  
• Monitoring trading performance analysing emerging loss ratio and market trends and reviewing long term pricing assumptions by peril
  
• Providing clear insightful recommendations to senior stakeholders and influencing pricing and strategic decisions
  
• Managing and coaching Pricing Analysts building technical capability and supporting career development
  
• Playing a key leadership role within the pricing team deputising for senior managers and contributing to wider Ageas UK pricing strategy

Skills and experience you need as Lead Pricing Analyst:

• A degree (or equivalent experience) in a numerical or analytical discipline
  
• Proven experience in insurance pricing or a closely related analytical role
  
• Strong programming and data skills (e.g. SQL SAS R or Python)
  
• Experience with predictive modelling techniques such as GLMs GBMs GAMs Random Forests or similar
  
• The ability to communicate complex analysis clearly to non technical audiences and senior stakeholders
  
• Experience coaching or developing analysts with a collaborative and inclusive leadership style

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work which helped us achieveTop Employerstatus in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageasgives employees flexibility around location (as long as its within the UK) and for many of our roles flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental InsuranceHealth Cash Plan Health Screening Will Writing Voluntary Critical Illness Mental Health First Aiders Well Being Activities Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas Wheels motor and home insurance Annual Bonus Schemes Annual Salary Reviews Competitive Pension Employee Savings Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities mindfulness sessions Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange Cycle Scheme Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Returnto work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK.Our Peoplehelp Ageas to be a thriving creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer we encourage anyone to apply. Were a signatory of theRace at Work CharterandWomen in Finance Chartermember ofiCANandGAIN.As aDisability Confident Leaderwe are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment the list does not cover the support you need please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information please seeAgeas Everyone.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and were always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and were open to discussingflexible working including full-time part-time or job share find out more about Ageas seeAbout Us.

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