Lead Pricing Analyst - Standard Car

Job Title: Lead Pricing Analyst - Standard CarTarget Start Date: ASAPContract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option availableSalary Range: Up to £70kLocation: London - HybridWork Level: 4Lead Pricing Analyst - Standard Car: Are you ready to influence the future growth and profitability of a leading insurance company? As a Lead Pricing Analyst at Ageas, you will plan and deliver pricing projects to high standards, using sophisticated actuarial and statistical techniques. Your work will directly impact our business’s volume and profit, and you’ll play a crucial role in building pricing capability within our team.

The role will involve the management of detailed analysis of data using sophisticated actuarial and statistical techniques to recommend pricing actions which increase volume and profit.  In addition, the Lead Pricing Analyst will build pricing capability and core skills within the business, as well as influence the strategic direction of Risk Pricing team and within the wider Ageas UK Group.Main Responsibilities as Lead Pricing Analyst - Standard Car:

Management, development and coaching of Pricing Analysts and Senior Pricing Analysts.

• Validate, review and approve predictive and machine learning models.
• Development and delivery of up-to-date and accurate datasets for modelling, pricing and monitoring.
• Development and maintenance of pricing models and support for their deployment.
• Carry out pricing analyses and prepare recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Carry out deployment/send instructions for rate releases and review of rates into rate engine/live environment.
• Develop a balanced view of current and future pricing performance by combining MI, modelling results and company targets.
• Execution, development and project management across all stages of the price control cycle.
• Deputise for the Pricing Manager or Senior Pricing Manager where required, including meetings with senior management.

Skills and experience you need as Lead Pricing Analyst - Standard Car:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerical discipline.
• Experience in insurance pricing or related analytical background.
• Experienced in the use of a programming language (e.g., SQL, SAS, Python).
• Experience of Emblem and Radar.
• Experience using predictive modelling techniques e.g., Logistic Regression, GLMs, GBMs.
• Experience of using analytics to solve complex business problems.
• Effective coaching of junior staff and development of pricing skills.
• Experience of dealing with and influencing colleagues at all levels up to, and including, senior management and directors.
• Ability to convey advanced statistical concepts to a non-statistical audience.
• Self-motivated, with the drive, energy and ability to work on own initiative.
• Very strong planning, prioritisation and organisational skills.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Lead Pricing Analyst - Standard Car role based in London: 

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageasgives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s 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 Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, 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

Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

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

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:We’re one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see our Diversity and Inclusion pages.Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re 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 we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.To find out more about about our Award Winning team and culture, please visit Careers at Ageas.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.

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