Senior Pricing Manager

Agria Pet Insurance has a fantastic opportunity for a new Senior Pricing Manager to join the team based in Aylesbury on a hybrid basis. The successful candidate will join the team on a full time, permanent basis in return for a competitive salary.

Agria Pet Insurance is one of the UK's leading specialist pet insurance providers. We only provide insurance for animals, so truly understand and care about our customers and their beloved pets - especially as most of our team are pet parents, and we're all animal-lovers. Our passion for pets means that we are trusted by the Kennel Club and many other significant affinity partners to provide lifetime pet insurance in their names. 

Working closely with animal welfare organisations, vets and breeders, gives us deep insight on what's best for pets. And we give back too - including supporting hundreds of animal rescues, protecting for over 100,000 rescued animals, and through donations of over £2m to animal charities. 

We are a strong, growing business, having doubled our GWP in the last 3 years, with a supportive ethos and family feel. We became one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ in 2023 and again in 2024, were awarded Most Trusted Pet Insurer in 2021, we have the top 4 slots on Which? Best Buy pet insurance and we are extremely proud to be the only carbon positive pet insurer in the UK.

About the role:

As the Senior Pricing Manager, you will be managing Agria’s risk pricing in support of the delivery of the insurance strategy, customer outcomes and contribution to the achievement of the overall P&L.

We are looking for an experienced technical pricing expert who has a proven track record of management, taking responsibility of the performance of their product, and developing innovative solutions in order to continuously improve Agria’s risk pricing capabilities and generate value.

Responsibilities as our Senior Pricing Manager will include:

• Leading the development and delivery of innovative pricing models to ensure risk pricing is at a market leading standard.
• Developing partner and direct pricing solutions, with a strong commercial focus, to help drive the growth of Agria UK.
• Setting the best standards for pricing practices and being a role model in the team.
• Solving complex issues, both within day-to-day work and with a wider strategic focus.
• Maintaining a wide awareness of developments in the general insurance market and applying commercial awareness to understand emerging trends and take appropriate actions.
• Supporting the wider Pricing and Reserving departments in our parent company in Sweden, providing required regulatory and business-specific data and statistical analysis to our Actuarial teams there.
• Work closely with partners across the business to inform product development opportunities, collaborating to launch new products and develop existing market propositions.

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes of our Senior Pricing Manager:

You will be a pricing expert, preferably in pet insurance, with experience of building new pricing models, working collaboratively with departments outside of pricing and have examples of delivering strong commercial value.

• A passion for great customer experience and outcomes.
• Enthusiastic, proactive and flexible with the desire to succeed within a team environment.
• Detailed knowledge of general insurance pricing processes and methodologies with specific experience in pet pricing.
• Experience of working with pricing software for example Earnix or Radar.
• Confident in risk price modelling with GLMs and/or machine learning.
• Strong numerical and statistical capabilities.
• Strong influencing and relationship management skills.
• Possesses strong coaching abilities and actively motivates others to win.
• Strong organisational skills, e.g. time management, documentation etc.
• Viewed as a technical expert.
• Experienced in some programming languages such as SQL, R and Python.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements in relation to pricing.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join the Agria team – please click ‘apply’ now to become our Senior Pricing Manager - we'd like to hear from you!

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