Home Risk Pricing Manager in City of London

Welcome to Hastings Direct. We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become the best and biggest in the UK market. We’ve made huge investments in our pricing and data capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture. We provide insurance for over four million customers, and our Pricing, Data and Analytics community values curiosity, collaboration and constructive challenge. We are always looking for new ideas and diverse perspectives to question established thinking and drive meaningful change. Great pricing is built on trust, innovation and precision, so our aim is to ensure customers receive a fair and accurate price based on their individual risk, supporting fair outcomes, while delivering sustainable and profitable growth for our company. Pricing is a strategic capability at Hastings with deep risk insight – continually improving how we assess, segment and price risk through data and analytics.

The risk pricing manager will lead a team of 2 analysts with the aim of delivering our profit and growth targets for home.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

What we’re looking for:

• 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.

Interview Process:

• Recruiter screening call.
• 1st Round – Intro call with Hiring manager.
• 2nd Round – Case study round.

What we will give you:

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. Not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards, and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice. As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive.

Benefits:

• In addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive:
• Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach.
• Competitive bonus scheme – all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus.
• Physical wellbeing – Band 4 colleagues, Hastings pays for private medical Insurance (PMI).
• Financial wellbeing – life assurance, income protection, pension contributions up to 10%, plus discounts, mortgage advice and financial wellbeing support.
• Mental wellbeing – Thrive app, colleague assistance programme, mental health first aiders, support groups.
• Additional benefits – 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, health care cashback plans, dental plans, Cycle to work and tech schemes, onsite facilities, social events.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Our recruitment process includes reference checks, which may include credit and criminal records checks. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Our recruitment team is here to provide support to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.