Principal Technical Pricing Analyst

Role Description

Allianz are currently seeking a highly skilled Principal Pricing Analyst to join their Home Technical Pricing team and contribute to our success by developing sophisticated pricing models and strategies. This role will be hybrid from our offices in either Birmingham, Bournemouth or London.

The Principal Pricing Analyst in our Home Technical Pricing Team will be responsible for building and implementing advanced pricing models to optimize our product offerings and enhance profitability.

You'll participate in the Allianz Global P&C Academy, enhancing your skills in underwriting, risk engineering, pricing, and claims management while exchanging best practices across the Allianz Group. Allianz Insurance supports professional qualifications, such as IFoA and CII, where considered appropriate for the business and the individual.

Our team values continuous learning, you can enjoy free access to top training platforms like DataCamp, Databricks Academy, and LinkedIn Learning. Additionally, we host Lunch and Learn sessions on key business topics hosted by experts across the team and monthly insight sessions, including the Data Science Forum and analyst forum, to refine your technical skills.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £63,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

Your role will vary day to day, but here is a bit of what you can expect:

• Playing a leading role in the development, enhancement and review of our pricing models, including design of modelling plans, data preparation, creation of models and overlaying wider techniques (e.g. credibility).
• Contributing to the development of pricing structures and strategies to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
• Be involved in back testing and analysis of the impact of the models to propose necessary adjustments to the price.
• Ensuring business objectives are clearly understood when planning projects, and our technical deliveries are robust with clear communication to stakeholders to drive adoption.
• Driving innovation and an increased sophistication into our Pricing approach, including managing projects to provide new insight through additional data sources.
• Sharing and promoting knowledge, skills and best working practices within the team.
• Deputising for the manager and supporting the development of junior members of the team.

Essential Skills

We don't expect you to know everything from day one, but the following will enable you to hit the ground running:

• Solid knowledge of relevant statistical modelling methods – in particular GLMs.
• Knowledge of relevant machine learning techniques – in particular GBMs.
• Proven experience in working with large data sources.
• Good command of Advanced Excel, Python, SQL, SAS, Databricks or similar coding languages.
• Experience of WTW's Radar and Emblem.
• Good understanding of the various elements of a Technical Price, including business expenses, other costs and actuarial/inflation assumptions.
• Good stakeholder management skills, including communication, expectation management and the ability to convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships throughout both the Pricing Department and the wider business.

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Allianz, we prioritize diversity and inclusion, demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.

We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it's assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.

Accessible Application for All

As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.

Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.

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For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Mckevitt

If you are an at-risk candidate facing potential redeployment, please include this information in your CV.

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

Closing date 06/11/25

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