Pricing Practitioner, Data Scientist
Direct Line Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Take full end-to-end ownership of customer pricing—across both risk and margin—working alongside a small, expert team of pricing and underwriting professionals
- Identify pricing opportunities across customer segments and implement strategies to optimize profitability and market competitiveness
- Drive innovation in pricing by developing and integrating new features, tools, and models to increase pricing sophistication
- Monitor claims performance to ensure pricing remains accurately calibrated, responsive to inflation, and aligned with emerging trends
- Build efficient, automated processes to enhance operational effectiveness and empower a high-performing, data-driven pricing team
Requirements
- Commercially driven mindset – you're motivated by delivering tangible business value through smart, data-led decisions
- Advanced statistical modelling & machine learning – to build capabilities to automate insight generation, enhance risk segmentation, and translate data-driven findings into actionable pricing decisions
- Technical proficiency – skilled in tools such as Python, SQL, Tableau, or similar, with the ability to extract insights from complex datasets
- Pricing curiosity – a strong grasp of (or ambition to master) end-to-end insurance pricing, from data to deployment
- Quantitative mindset – a solid foundation in statistics and actuarial principles, with the ability to apply them to real-world pricing challenges, including assessing second- and third-order effects to drive smarter, more sustainable decisions
- Effective communicator – confident presenting ideas and insights to senior stakeholders across the business
- Insurance industry knowledge – solid understanding of general insurance pricing, ideally with experience in motor insurance
- Bias for action – a natural problem-solver who can break down complex ideas into clear, actionable steps, always keeping focus on delivering real, measurable outcomes.
Benefits
- 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% AIP Bonus
- EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way
- Generous holidays
- Buy as you earn share scheme
- Employee discounts and cashback
- Plus, many more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
statistical modellingmachine learningdata analysisrisk segmentationpricing strategiesoperational effectivenessautomated processesinsurance pricingactuarial principlesdata-driven decision making
Soft Skills
commercially driven mindseteffective communicationproblem-solvingdata-driven mindsetinnovationcollaborationpresentation skillscuriosityfocus on outcomesadaptability