Job Description
Senior Pricing Manager - FTC
Surrey | Hybrid / Flexible
c.£120,000 + car allowance + bonus + comprehensive benefits
Eames is partnering with a leading group insurer to appoint a Senior Pricing Manager on a fixed-term basis, covering a critical senior pricing role. This position offers significant visibility across the business, ownership of core pricing frameworks, and the chance to shape strategy across a broad group protection portfolio.
You’ll take a lead role in setting and maintaining central pricing bases across Group Income Protection, Group Life, Group Dependants and Group Critical Illness, while acting as a key adviser to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end pricing reviews across multiple group protection products, including experience analysis, assumption setting and peer/risk review oversight.
- Own the monitoring of emerging experience, market and risk trends, recommending pricing and basis changes in line with risk appetite.
- Deliver annual investigations covering claims experience, expenses, cost of capital and investment yield assumptions.
- Maintain strong pricing governance and controls, ensuring robustness, transparency and regulatory alignment (including Consumer Duty and fair value considerations).
- Act as a senior pricing representative at governance committees, preparing high-quality papers and presenting recommendations to executive audiences.
- Manage risk exposure across the portfolio, including accumulation and overseas lives.
- Line manage and mentor actuarial students and newly qualified actuaries, supporting both technical development and career progression.
- Drive continuous improvement in pricing processes, tools and ways of working.
- Build and maintain close working relationships with Financial Underwriting, - Distribution, Marketing and other key partners.
About you:
- Qualified actuary (FIA) with strong post-qualification experience in insurance pricing.
- Background in life and/or health insurance; group protection experience beneficial but not essential.
- Solid technical grounding, with experience of experience analysis and pricing methodologies (GLM knowledge an advantage).
- Confident communicator, comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and contributing at committee level.
- Proven people manager with a collaborative leadership style and a passion for developing talent.
- Commercially minded, with the ability to balance technical rigour, risk management and customer outcomes.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior pricing actuary looking to step into a visible leadership role, influence business-critical decisions, and gain exposure at the highest levels of a well-regarded insurer.
If this sounds like you or someone you might know do not hesitate to apply.