Pricing Build Manager

HDI is a Corporate & Specialty Insurer part of the Talanx Group. With over 120 years of experience, HDI operates across five continents, around 40 countries and employs over 5,000 people worldwide. At HDI, we’re not just offering a role – we’re inviting you to join a team that’s shaping the future of pricing innovation across a huge variety of Specialty lines of business. As a long-term partner of Hyperexponential, we’re building cutting-edge pricing models that deliver real impact for both London and global markets, working in close collaboration with our home office actuarial colleagues to ensure best-in-class solutions.

What Makes Us Different?

• Innovation at Scale: Our collaboration with Hyperexponential means you’ll work on advanced pricing solutions that push boundaries.
• Global Reach: We’re part of a large organisation, supporting both London and international branches, giving you exposure to diverse markets and challenges.
• Variety & Complexity: You’ll tackle a wide range of business lines, with varying degrees of complexity and maturity, that keep your work exciting and impactful.
• Collaborative Culture: You’ll work hand-in-hand with our Underwriting partners, sharing knowledge and driving pricing innovation together.
• Culture of Growth: We invest in your development with continuous learning opportunities and clear career progression.
• Inclusive & Supportive: Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our culture – we celebrate individuality and foster belonging.
• Flexibility & Balance: We understand life outside work matters, so we offer flexible working arrangements and wellbeing programmes.

If you’re passionate about data, technology, and creating solutions that matter, this is your chance to join a team where your ideas will shape the future. Read on to discover how you can be part of our journey.

The role

• Strategic Leadership and Oversight: Support the Head of Technical and Specialty Pricing in providing strategic direction across the ‘Technical Pricing’ Function.
• Actuarial Development and Delivery: Oversee the development and delivery of new pricing models and significant redevelopments of existing pricing models for both local and global usage. Ensuring that the coding standards are maintained and where appropriate leveraging the latest platform functionalities to enhance pricing models.
• Relationship and Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain effective internal relationships to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, particularly with Pricing Delivery teams, while representing the company externally at relevant events.
• Project Management and Compliance: Lead end-to-end management of actuarial projects, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (FCA, PRA), and providing accurate documentation in line with company policies and actuarial best practices.
• Leadership, Team Development, and Process Improvement: Guide team performance and development by identifying skill gaps, managing HR-related matters, and driving process improvements while addressing risks and control weaknesses to maintain high operational standards.

Key accountabilities

• Development and delivery of new pricing models to satisfy Local or Global use requirements, including the generic suite of MI dashboards.
• Development and delivery of significant updates of existing pricing models to the agreed scope.
• Replatforming of existing pricing models and migration of existing datasets.
• Ensuring that the coding standards are maintained and TAS compliant documentation for all new, replatformed and significant changed models.
• Leveraging the value of new pricing platform functionality where appropriate within the build projects.
• Build strong and effective relationships within the business, encouraging cross Company team working to facilitate effective commercial underwriting decisions.
• In particular working with the Pricing Delivery teams to ensure a smooth transition from project builds to ongoing delivery support.
• Represent the company externally at any appropriate events.
• Maintain an understanding of and comply with all relevant FCA / PRA / Company regulatory requirements and other relevant regulatory requirements.
• End to end project management of Actuarial projects.
• Ensure appropriate documentation is completed for allocated work with the necessary commentary, insights and findings in line with HDI policies and procedures, and actuarial best practice.
• Oversee the development of the team by ensuring they have the opportunities, training and experience to expand their knowledge and improve their skills.
• Identify skills gaps and training requirements of the function.
• Identify and enhance the quality and value of processes across the function.
• Report any existing or new risks, as well as significant control failings/weaknesses or events that may arise to the head of function.

Skills & experience

• Extensive and varied knowledge of Pricing in the London Market.
• Knowledge of Specialty and/or Commercial lines business.
• Experience of Hyperexponential Renew is desirable.
• At least two years PQE or equivalent.
• Experienced user in software relevant to actuarial analyses (e.g. Python, SQL, GLM software, PowerBI, etc).
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and VBA for excel.
• Experience of managing technical experts.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, recognising that a diverse and inclusive workplace is a creative and prosperous one.