Global Technical Pricing Lead – Actuarial Calibration

Markel Corporation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 16% pension

Private medical & dental

Electric car scheme

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Travel insurance

Job summary

Markel Corporation is seeking a senior actuarial pricing professional to lead technical calibration across International divisions, partnering with UK, Europe, APAC and Canada teams. You will oversee end-to-end model calibration, set governance cycles, and provide standards and tools to regional PMs to build pricing maturity frameworks.

You will collaborate with the HX platform team, influence underwriting strategy and drive pricing quality while balancing rigour with commercial pragmatism.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in technical pricing within the London Market or specialty insurance sector.
• Strong actuarial and pricing expertise, with deep experience of pricing model development, validation, calibration and performance monitoring.
• Experience designing and implementing pricing governance, controls and model management frameworks.
• Strong understanding of rating methodologies, technical vs market ratios, rate adequacy concepts and portfolio performance drivers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end calibration and recalibration process for pricing models across International divisions.
• Set risk-based review cycles based on materiality, performance and model maturity.
• Enable regional Portfolio Managers to build and maintain pricing model maturity frameworks with standards and tools.
• Collaborate with Pricing Transformation and actuarial teams to ensure consistency and governance across HX platform.

Skills

Pricing calibration

Actuarial pricing

Model governance

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Pricing governance

Communication skills

Leadership

Job description

Markel Corporation is seeking a senior actuarial pricing professional to lead technical calibration across International divisions, partnering with UK, Europe, APAC and Canada teams. You will oversee end-to-end model calibration, set governance cycles, and provide standards and tools to regional PMs to build pricing maturity frameworks.

You will collaborate with the HX platform team, influence underwriting strategy and drive pricing quality while balancing rigour with commercial pragmatism.