What you’ll be doing
Working in an agile way means you’ll take charge early on, soak up new experiences and most importantly you’ll 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.
Reporting into the Pet Pricing lead, key responsibilities will include:
* Initially supporting on the migration of our existing products onto a new platform and a successful delivery of our new and updated product suite, data requirements and schema definitions working in a highly focused, cross-group environment.
* Working in a fast paced environment, you’ll oversee a successful migration and develop out future products in a new and exciting part of the group.
* Work closely with the Head of Pricing & Underwriting, Pet pricing lead, and trading team to deliver pricing strategy
* Responsible for price optimisation and setting of market rates in line with business targets and budgets.
* Delivery of margin, conversion and retention, and price trading, and oversee performance of demand models.
* Develop algorithm and product build.
* Deployment of rates and Underwriting rules.
* Responsible for delivering budgeted pricing position.
* Develop data and MI infrastructure to enable price optimisation, multiple scheme loss ratio management, and ensure clean data lineage across multiple platforms, with technical specs created and maintained.
* Supporting on trading activity, including proposals, testing and PIRs, and oversee optimisation strategies
* Development of trading MI reporting and conduct processes to support positive customer and pricing outcomes
* Helping develop and deliver the Pricing and Underwriting strategy and ensuring the capability build required to deliver is in place.
* Liaising with trading teams to deliver great customer and commercial outcomes.
* Delivery of platform migration with wider pricing team.
* Deputise for the Pet Pricing lead as required.
What you’ll need
* Experience of pricing a personal lines insurance product, in a price optimisation and retail trading capacity.
* Understanding of modelling processes and concepts, and the link with risk/retail pricing.
* Strong SQL skills, and experience of Pricing and deployment tools such as Earnix or Radar.
* Strong stakeholder management skills.
* Ability to innovate and work in a fast paced environment, working with a breadth of initiatives
* Experience working to budgets and developing business cases for capability enhancement
* System Migration experience
* Pet experience preferable
Ways of working
Our hybrid model offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you’ll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 50% of the week, and we’ll consider flexible working options that work best for you.
This role is available in our London, Bristol or Leeds offices.
Benefits
We offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model combining the best parts of home and office-working, varying with the nature of your role. Our core benefits include:
* 9% employer contributed pension
* 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus 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
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* Insurance
Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom
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