esure has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Pricing Manager (Forecasting and Contribution) to join our head office in Reigate. This is a full time, permanent position.

Reporting to the Head of Motor Portfolio Pricing, the successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring and forecasting the profitability of the Motor Account and recommend appropriate actions. Pricing lead for re-insurance tenders

The Day to Day

• Delivery and presentation of regular contribution reporting and loss ratio forecasts for the Motor Account.
• Co-ordinate and ensuring inputs from across the company are updated on a regular basis, to include but not limited to: claims inflation, expenses.
• Responsible for ensuring that any changes in claims trends, risk mix and legislation are accurately reflected in forecasts.
• Business lead for pricing team input to the business planning cycle, working closely with the Finance, Actuarial and Underwriting teams on the key underwriting volume, premium and loss ratio drivers within the business plans and forecasts.
• Work closely with the Actuarial department to ensure that an accurate forecast of loss ratios is used in the Premium Provision for Solvency II capital requirements.
• Pricing lead for reinsurance tenders
• Recommending appropriate actions to support the profitability of the Motor Account.
• Use technical expertise and knowledge of best practice to translate business objectives and stakeholder requirements into specific pricing activities and projects.
• Technical expertise to ensure team is trained in best practice and delivers their work to a high standard.
• This role has direct line management responsibility and is responsible for ensuring the professional development of various roles within the team.
• Perform timely reviews with a strong desire to develop and motivate people in an empowering way.

We’d Love You to Bring

• Strong analytical and interpretation skills underpinned by a numeric degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Substantial experience in delivering statistical models, e.g. GLMs, GBMs or other relevant techniques
• Good understanding of reserving
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal and prioritisation skills.
• Stakeholder management
• Excellent data manipulation skills.
• Strong governance awareness to make sure models implemented fully adhere to regulatory and far value measures.

We’d also like to hear if you have…

• Experience of WTW software, Radar and Emblem in particular
• Experience in SAS, SQL or Python
• Other relevant qualifications or experience, e.g., in Data Science

We’ll help you gain…

• Access to accredited Learning Academies to develop technical and soft skills across a range of areas e.g. Data, Data Science and Agile
• Support to further your education/qualifications through offering relevant apprenticeships, e.g. data science MSc (subject to application approval)

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
• A management bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure’s success
• Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
• 28 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
• Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
• Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we’ll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
• Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it’s no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work’ one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey!
• More flexibility for you: we’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it’s part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
• Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
• A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. That’s why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
• Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.