Job Description
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 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.
Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.