Motor Pricing Manager - Trading

Job Title: Motor Pricing Manager - TradingTarget Start Date: ASAPContract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option availableSalary Range: Up to £84,000Location: Hybrid, London - once a week

Motor Pricing Manager - Trading: Ageas are seeking a highly skilled pricing manager to take the lead on all broker trading initiatives across all motor lines of business. Supported by a team of 6 pricing analysts, you will be working to achieve optimal business outcomes through working closely with other business functions (including underwriting, distribution, actuarial and finance). You will need to be highly proficient at analysing market trends, and making data-driven decisions to ensure our pricing strategies align with our business objectives.In the role, you will need to prioritise, plan and deliver pricing related projects that have a specific focus on the Ageas trading position. They will directly influence the future growth and profitability of the business. The role will involve the management of detailed analysis of data using various statistical techniques in order to recommend pricing actions that optimise the balance between growth and profitability. You will be responsible for the development of the pricing analysts within your team, guiding them to achieve their career goals and aspirations.Main Responsibilities as Motor Pricing Manager - Trading:

• Management, development and coaching of Lead, Senior and Pricing Analysts (circa team of 6).
• Prioritisation, planning and delivery of pricing initiatives across all lines of business within the Broker Motor channel, with a focus on growth and profit maximisation.
• Ensuring that your team and the business have the right trading information, reports and dashboards to make optimal decisions.
• Ownership of the quote data, responsible for data enhancement, governance and ensuring accurate and relevant datasets for modelling, pricing and monitoring.
• Play a key role in the multi-year budgeting process, both for setting the budget and tracking of various KPIs against the budget.
• Development and maintenance of pricing models and support for their deployment.
• Work with the pricing deployments team for rate releases and responsible for the review of rates in rate engine/live environment.
• Project management across all stages of the price control cycle as required.
• Deputise for Head of Pricing where required, including meetings with senior management and directors of Ageas UK companies.

Skills and experience you need as Motor Pricing Manager - Trading:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerical discipline or qualified by experience.
• Extensive experience in insurance pricing or related analytical background.
• Highly skilled in the use of various programming language (e.g. SAS / SQL / R / Python) for data manipulation and processing.
• Experience of working within Databricks is preferred but not essential.
• Experience in using WTW Radar or equivalent pricing software.
• Experience of using analytics to solve complex business problems.
• Have an awareness of predictive modelling techniques e.g. Logistic Regression, Log-Gamma GLMs, GBMs, Elastic Net GLMs, GAMs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks.
• Knowledge of how the broker market functions.
• Effective coaching and development of junior staff and development of pricing skills.
• Experience of dealing with and influencing colleagues at all levels up to, and including, senior management and directors.
• Ability to convey advanced statistical concepts to a non-statistical audience.
• Self-motivated, with the drive, energy and ability to work on own initiative.
• Very strong planning, prioritisation and organisational skills.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family-Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.