P&U Job Description
About Us
At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. We all work together to be brilliant for customers every single day.
Pricing and Underwriting is a complicated world where historical data, geospatial information, and mathematical models meet talented analysts. Pricing our products is a fine line between balancing our business goals and customer needs. That’s why our Pricers and Underwriters are the best of the best. They reduce risk and predict future events, ensuring our business can continue to grow whilst each of our consumers gets the best price.
Join us as a Pricing expert in our Pricing & Underwriting Centre of Expertise. Here you’ll use your pricing expertise to work with the pricing and underwriting community and our Risk teams to manage our P&U governance and control environment. You’ll lead delivery of key pricing and underwriting control outcomes, working across multiple tribes to drive alignment, best practice, and compliance with the control environment.
What you’ll be doing
Working in an agile way means you’ll take charge early on, soak up new experiences, and positively influence and shape what we do – making an impact on our customers' lives. We’ll utilise your skills where they are most needed whilst also giving you the opportunity to build and grow the breadth of your expertise.
As part of your role, you will support the management, ongoing development, and oversight of the P&U control environment to ensure compliance with legislation and regulation and the safe delivery of pricing and underwriting change. You will lead key activity to deliver control outcomes in a timely and effective manner.
You’ll report to the Head of P&U Centre of Expertise as part of the wider COE team.
What you’ll need
* Strong pricing skills ideally across technical and retail pricing
* Good understanding of managing pricing and underwriting risk through a control environment
* Strong stakeholder management and engagement across teams at all levels
Ways of working
Our hybrid model of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach, combining the best parts of home and office-working. Most colleagues are in the office 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.
Read our flexible working approach here
What we’ll give you (Band 4)
We wouldn’t be where we are today without our people and the wide variety of perspectives and life experiences they bring. That’s why we offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model. Our core benefits include:
* 9% employer contributed pension
* 50% off home, motor, and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover
* Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
* Up to 10% bonus
* EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax-efficient way.
* 25 days annual leave, increasing each year up to a maximum of 28
* Buy as you earn share scheme
* Employee discounts and cashback
* Plus many more!
Being Yourself
Difference makes us who we are. We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work – that’s why we champion diverse voices, build workplaces that work for people, and invest in the things that matter. Discover more at directlinegroupcareers.com
Together we’re one of a kind.
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