Manager, Insurance Pricing, Savings & Retirement

Manager, Insurance Pricing, Savings & Retirement

Apply locations London, UK time type Full time posted on Posted 25 Days Ago job requisition id R13683

Manager, Insurance Pricing, Savings & Retirement

The Savings & Retirement Insurance Pricing team are responsible for producing the best estimate insurance assumptions for clients in our global markets. The team responsibilities are across Pension Risk transfer, Individual Retirement and Savings for Retirement products.

We are looking to hire a Manager for our Insurance pricing team. They will be primarily supporting our UK and Canadian Markets through tender activity and ongoing technical/pricing support. The successful candidate will be based in our London office, Tower Bridge House, St Katharine's Way.

As a proactive and technical actuary, you will be working on a team to deliver Savings and Retirement quotes for clients. Your expertise in pricing and experience analysis will support you as you work alongside the client solutions team to deliver creative solutions and support market growth, whilst meeting the needs of our clients.

You will also be responsible for managing the insurance pricing actuaries and analysts within the team.

Working together with the wider pricing team you will deliver high quality pricing analysis on quote opportunities for clients and will present the opportunity through the internal governance process gaining significant visibility with the Savings & Retirement Executive Committee, Chief Operating Officer and CEO.

As a creative thinker you will support the development of PLRe pricing sophistication by understanding latest pricing and analytical techniques and continuously improving internal approaches and processes.

• Supporting the delivery of new business quotations for our clients and supporting our opportunistic market insurance pricing.
• Analysing experience data to determine trends in order to derive the technical pricing basis. Communicating results/findings to stakeholders across the business.
• Maintain a thorough and up to date knowledge of relevant insurance pricing and of industry trends. Responsible for ensuring those developments are considered and where appropriate reflected in the pricing of S&R business as well as in the provision of technical support, risk assessment and pricing expertise to clients and colleagues.
• Supporting the Client solutions team in building and maintaining effective relationships with clients and promoting the Pacific Life Re brand.
• Supporting internal strategic projects including but not limited to the improvement of pricing processes, assessment of new rating factors for use in Pricing etc.
• Working closely with the Deal pricing team on our overall quote proposition to deliver the best solutions for our clients.

• Have strong and relevant technical experience in (re)insurance, consultancy or another statistical role. Experience in GLM and advanced statistical techniques would be preferable.
• Experience in a pricing role is not essential but would be advantageous.
• Be a qualified actuary (a member of the IFoA or SOA) with 3+ years of post-qualified experience.
• Have experience in experience analysis and basis setting, including but not limited to mortality, dependent, and lapse assumptions.
• Have strong communication skills. Able to communicate complex actuarial concepts to a range of audiences both verbally and written.
• Have experience in people management and supporting newly qualified actuaries and actuarial analysts in their work.

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Private Medical Insurance
• Season Ticket Loan
• Eye Care
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Group Income Protection
• Wellness Benefits

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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