Head of Market Pricing

AXA UK; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare company is seeking a Pricing Lead Analyst to oversee age-rated pricing activities and lead a team of analysts. The role involves developing pricing strategies and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Candidates should have extensive experience in the insurance marketplace, along with excellent analytical and business acumen. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary up to £50,000

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Private medical cover

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience in Global IPMI insurance and reinsurance.
• Proficiency in insurance pricing techniques and methodologies.
• Demonstrates excellent business and commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Lead pricing activities collaborating with partners and insurers.
• Develop product and pricing strategies.
• Create solutions for new products to strengthen insurer relationships.

Skills

Pricing techniques

Business acumen

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Insurance marketplace knowledge

Tools

Emblem

Akur8

Job description

Description

Are you a motivated and experienced pricing professional looking to take the next step in your career? As a Pricing Lead Analyst at AXA - Global Healthcare, you'll be responsible for delivering age-rated pricing activities, driving technical product development, and providing insightful monitoring and reporting for both internal and external stakeholders. You'll oversee BAU pricing for individual and SME portfolios, ensuring targets for Gross Underwriting Margin are met, and support all scheduled product reviews through thorough analysis, approval, and implementation.

In this pivotal role, you'll lead a team of analysts, ensuring their work aligns with the guidelines set by insurers and reinsurers, while fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment. You'll support the ongoing development of pricing strategies and ensure that all activities adhere to regulatory standards and internal policies. This is a fantastic opportunity to utilise your expertise in a dynamic organisation, making a meaningful impact on our healthcare insurance offerings.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead pricing activities in collaboration with various partners and insurers.
• Develop current and future product and pricing strategies.
• Support Distribution with tactical incentives to optimise market positioning.
• Create solutions for new products and strengthen insurer relationships.
• Lead technical developments to improve efficiency and innovation within the Pricing team.
• Develop underwriting approaches to enhance AXA Global Healthcare's competitiveness.
• Opportunity to manage at least one Analyst, setting clear goals and development plans.
• Ensure all decisions align with AXA's vision, values, and leadership principles.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.

What you'll bring:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of the Global IPMI insurance and reinsurance marketplace, including managing international relationships.
• Proficiency in insurance pricing techniques and methodologies.
• Demonstrates excellent business and commercial acumen.
• Experience with modelling software such as Emblem or Akur8 would be advantageous.
• Capable of quickly and accurately understanding and synthesising complex information.
• Skilled at building sound professional relationships across all levels of the organisation, with a tactful and constructive approach to challenging discussions.
• Curious about operational processes and driven to implement meaningful change.
• Self‑motivated and able to work independently.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary of up to £50,000
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are:

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, AXA - Global Healthcare specialise in supporting the healthcare needs of globally mobile citizens, around the world. From a routine medical check up to a lengthy hospital stay, individuals and businesses have relied on the global support and protection we offer, for more than 55 years. Today, we support members living in more than 200 countries from our global hubs in the UK, Europe, Asia, India, USA and Middle East.