At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead design and implementation of portfolio performance monitoring frameworks and drive pricing strategy.
- Company: Join a dynamic Pricing Portfolio Management team focused on innovative pricing methodologies.
- Benefits: Opportunity to coach junior analysts and influence long-term strategic planning.
- Other info: Experience with WTW Radar and Emblem is essential for this role.
- Why this job: Shape the future of pricing in aggregator-driven markets with advanced modelling techniques.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in Personal Lines Pricing and proficiency in R, Python, or SQL required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Best-practice pricing methodologies, and contribute to the evolution of our pricing capability and operating model. The Pricing Portfolio Management team is responsible for innovating modelling approaches, refreshing and enhancing price optimisation methodologies, and ensuring our pricing infrastructure remains competitive, particularly within aggregator-driven markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, enhancement, and implementation of portfolio performance monitoring frameworks across product lines, ensuring clarity of insight and proactive issue identification.
- Drive pricing strategy and tactical interventions, partnering closely with the Pricing Manager and wider leadership to optimise commercial outcomes.
- Provide senior-level analytical oversight, ensuring pricing recommendations are robust, commercially aligned, and supportive of long-term profitability goals.
- Collaborate strategically with Underwriting, Technical Modelling, and Data teams to refine product design, calibrate technical models, and strengthen risk-cost feedback loops.
- Act as the analytical voice across the business, managing senior stakeholder relationships and confidently communicating complex insights and pricing impacts.
- Coach, support, and develop junior analysts, fostering a high-performing, innovative, and curious team culture.
- Shape and influence the Pricing roadmap, contributing to long-term strategic planning, capability development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in Personal Lines Pricing, with evidence of leading projects, influencing senior stakeholders, and owning complex analytical deliverables.
- Strong proficiency in predictive modelling techniques, including Logistic Regression, GBMs, Elastic Net GLMs, GAMs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Neural Networks, and Clustering.
- Advanced skills in R, Python, PySpark, SAS, or SQL.
- Proven ability to convert complex performance data into clear, commercially actionable recommendations.
- Experience with WTW Radar and Emblem is essential.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of simplifying complexity and shaping decisions at all levels.
- A strong quantitative academic background in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or Actuarial Science.
Behaviours
- Highly self-motivated, with a strong commitment to developing and mentoring others.
- Logical, structured thinker with a proactive and positive approach to problem-solving.
- Passionate about innovation, continuous improvement, and challenging established ways of working.
Portfolio Pricing Lead in City of Westminster employer: Markerstudy Ltd
This role is based in a forward-thinking company that values innovation and continuous improvement. The Pricing Portfolio Management team is dedicated to enhancing pricing capabilities and fostering a high-performing culture. Employees benefit from opportunities for professional development and mentoring.
