Senior Pricing Analyst

**Job Title**: Senior Pricing Analyst (Full-time, Part-Time)
**Target Start Date**: ASAP
**Contract Type**:UK-Permanent
**Salary Range**:£60,000 - £69,120
**Location**:London
**Senior Pricing Analyst**:
The Senior Pricing Analyst will plan and deliver pricing related projects to deadline and quality standards. The Senior Pricing Analyst will directly influence the future growth and profitability of the business.

The role of Senior Pricing Analyst will involve the management of detailed analysis of data using sophisticated actuarial and statistical techniques in order to recommend pricing actions which increase volume and profit. In addition, the Senior Pricing Analystwill 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 Senior Pricing Analyst**:

- Management, development and coaching of Pricing Analysts
- Develop, 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
- Maintenance of records to coordinate pricing decisions and implementation across teams, decision making bodies and implementation pathways
- Execution, development and project management across all stages of the price control cycle as required
- Manage the use of our price positioning and competitor analysis in order to decide/recommend, as appropriate, changes to optimise Ageas' competitive positioning and contribution per policy.
- Inform and influence senior management and heads of department
- Deputise for the Senior Pricing Manager or Manager where required, including meetings with senior management

**Skills and experience you need as Senior Pricing Analyst**
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerical discipline.
- Experience in insurance pricing or related analytical background
- Highly skilled in the use of programming language (e.g. SAS) to manipulate data.
- Highly skilled at building and managing products in Radar or equivalent software.
- Experience in the use of a programming language (e.g. R, Matlab, Python or Octave) is beneficial.
- Experience of using analytics to solve complex business problems.
- Experience in managing junior staff, or coaching the 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.

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**:

- **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
- **Benefits for Them** - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
- **Getting Around**:

- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
- **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, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants witha disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
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.
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