Senior Pricing Manager

About the role

You will be managing Agria’s risk pricing in support of the delivery of the insurance strategy, customer outcomes and contribution to the achievement of the overall P&L.

We are looking for an experienced technical pricing expert who has a proven track record of management, taking responsibility of the performance of their product, and developing innovative solutions in order to continuously improve Agria’s risk pricing capabilities and generate value.

You will bring an understanding of the drivers of best-in-class risk pricing and commercial success in pet insurance and implement new approaches to grow the book profitably.

You will be working closely with our Head of Product, Pricing and Underwriting to influence and shape the strategy and pricing policies to ensure loss ratio and policy volume targets are met. 

Role responsibility:

You will be responsible for developing Agria’s pricing capability using our new pricing platform. Creating pricing models and identifying new sources of insight. Alongside our Senior Pricing Analyst you will be responsible for delivering the budgeted loss ratio and supporting Agria’s ambitious growth plans. 

You will be accountable for:

• Leading the development and delivery of innovative pricing models to ensure risk pricing is at a market leading standard.
• Developing partner and direct pricing solutions, with a strong commercial focus, to help drive the growth of Agria UK.
• Setting the best standards for pricing practices and being a role model in the team.
• Solving complex issues, both within day-to-day work and with a wider strategic focus.
• Maintaining a wide awareness of developments in the general insurance market and applying commercial awareness to understand emerging trends and take appropriate actions.
• Supporting the wider Pricing and Reserving departments in our parent company in Sweden, providing required regulatory and business-specific data and statistical analysis to our Actuarial teams there.
• Work closely with partners across the business to inform product development opportunities, collaborating to launch new products and develop existing market propositions. 

The ideal candidate

You will be a pricing expert, preferably in pet insurance, with experience of building new pricing models, working collaboratively with departments outside of pricing and have examples of delivering strong commercial value.

Skills we would look for in a Senior Pricing Manager include:

• A passion for great customer experience and outcomes.
• Enthusiastic, proactive and flexible with the desire to succeed within a team environment.
• Detailed knowledge of general insurance pricing processes and methodologies with specific experience in pet pricing.
• Experience of working with pricing software for example Earnix or Radar.
• Confident in risk price modelling with GLMs and/or machine learning.
• Strong numerical and statistical capabilities.
• Strong influencing and relationship management skills.
• Possesses strong coaching abilities and actively motivates others to win.
• Strong organisational skills, e.g. time management, documentation etc.
• Viewed as a technical expert.
• Experienced in some programming languages such as SQL, R and Python.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements in relation to pricing.