Hastings Direct

Home Risk Pricing Manager

Hastings Direct

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bexhill • United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • The risk pricing manager will lead a team of 2 analysts with the aim of delivering our profit and growth targets for home.
  • Prioritising team resource and workstack items to help achieve our home profit and growth targets
  • Analysing various data sources (including loss, policy, quote and market data), to identify opportunities to improve our risk pricing.
  • Developing & delivering new insight, including the integration of new data, new innovative techniques and ways of working
  • Working closely with Actuarial, Data Science, Underwriting, Data Engineering, Account Management, Retail and Counter Fraud / Digital teams
  • Critically review technical models produced by actuaries and data scientists
  • Analyse the above models to determine the optimal way to combine these model outputs to improve the pricing algorithm
  • Analyse the models to identify segments where prices can be improved
  • Create and maintain tools that enable us to source new pricing leads on an automated basis
  • Representing the home team on various underwriting projects to generate value for the wider business
  • Support the team through peer reviews, coaching and mentoring
  • Ensure that we are meeting customers’ fair and reasonable expectations and provide fair outcomes for our customers.

Requirements

  • Strong general insurance background/knowledge preferable
  • Strong Analysis and coding experience. Python preferred, but if experience is with other coding languages then this can be trained up
  • Comfortable working with and analysing numerical/statistical data
  • Thirst for making change / Inquisitive, curious nature
  • Collaborates well with colleagues from own team and other teams
  • Good communication skills, written and verbal.
Benefits
  • Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach – please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail
  • Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus
  • Physical wellbeing – as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI).
  • Financial wellbeing – as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award-winning package which includes – discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
  • Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs
  • 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more…
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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