Senior Pricing Analyst - Strategic in Hampshire

Ageas has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pricing Analyst to join the Strategic Pricing Team. You will support the monitoring of performance and contribute to the profitable development of Ageas’ Household portfolio, through control of pricing. The role requires providing detailed analysis of data using sophisticated actuarial and statistical techniques that inform pricing actions to increase volume, income and profit. The actions will directly impact the future profitability and growth of the business with key targets to increase conversion, retention and achieve target loss ratios.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate and review predictive models including machine learning models.
• Run data for modelling, pricing and monitoring.
• Develop and deliver up-to-date and accurate datasets for modelling, pricing and monitoring.
• Develop and maintain pricing models and support for their deployment.
• Carry out pricing analyses and prepare options for senior stakeholders.
• Deploy rate releases and review rates into rate engine/live environment.
• Develop a balanced view of current and future pricing performance by combining MI, modelling results and company targets.
• Maintain records to coordinate pricing decisions and implementation across teams, decision‑making bodies and implementation pathways.
• Execute, develop and manage projects across all stages of the price control cycle as required.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience of using Emblem or Radar.
• A good quantitative degree, e.g. in Statistics, Mathematics or Actuarial Science.
• Experience in a relevant role in a data‑driven environment.
• Knowledge of insurance products and distributions (direct, intermediary, aggregators).
• Experience of using statistics to explore and validate data, extract and manipulate large datasets for analysis.
• Experience with programming languages (e.g. SAS) and/or statistical packages such as actuarial pricing software.
• Experience with programming languages (e.g. R, Matlab, Python or Octave).

Benefits at Ageas

• Flexible Working – Smart Working across the UK with flexibility within the working day.
• Minimum of 35 days holiday (incl. bank holidays) with options to buy and sell days.
• Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well‑Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• 50% off E‑sure and Sheilas’ Wheels motor and home insurance.
• Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, sports and social club events.
• Maternity/pregnancy/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Deals on gadgets including wearables, tablets and laptops.
• Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Return to work programme after maternity leave.

Equality and Diversity

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We are a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role.