Head of Pricing Solutions

Allianz; Croydon; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global insurance leader seeks a Head of Pricing Solutions to drive profitable growth across Roadside Assistance Lines of Business. This strategic leadership role involves managing a team of 10+, overseeing data and pricing strategies, and ensuring operational efficiency through collaboration across various departments. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong leadership in pricing and analytics within complex environments, with a focus on business acumen and stakeholder management. A commitment to employee development and a positive work environment is emphasized.

Benefits

Professional development programs

Work-life balance initiatives

Health and wellbeing programs

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in pricing or underwriting within complex environments.
• Experience in developing high-performing international teams.
• Strong execution and strategic capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead global data initiatives for RSA markets.
• Drive end-to-end tariff lifecycle for RSA products.
• Define global RSA pricing strategy in collaboration with regional teams.
• Deliver actionable insights from business partner reviews.
• Champion Technical Excellence through data and analytics enhancements.

Skills

Leadership experience in pricing

Pricing strategy development

Data management and analytics

Stakeholder management

Predictive analytics

Job description

The Head of Pricing Solutions is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving profitable growth across the Roadside Assistance Lines of Business through world-class pricing, data, and reporting capabilities. Leading a team of 10+ pricing professionals and reporting to the Global Head of RSA Product & Underwriting, this role partners closely with Market, Operations, Sales, Finance, IT, and global Allianz Partners business units. The mission is to deliver Technical Excellence (TEX) by transforming underwriting, pricing, and portfolio monitoring through harmonized data, advanced analytics, and scalable global solutions.

What You Will Do

• Lead global data initiatives to ensure high availability, quality, accessibility, and transparency of data across all RSA markets.
• Drive the end-to-end tariff lifecycle for all RSA products globally, including data collection, harmonization, analysis, modeling, testing, and deployment to increase underwriting effectiveness and market competitiveness.
• Define and steer the global RSA pricing strategy in close collaboration with regional Underwriting & Portfolio Management teams and ensure its consistent execution across all pricing tools.
• Own and manage the RSA Smart Circle and quarterly 360° business partner reviews, delivering actionable insights and forward-looking predictive performance recommendations.
• Define and implement harmonized portfolio monitoring and remediation solutions, including Salesforce-based tools and standardized Portfolio Days.
• Lead the development of a global reporting and portfolio monitoring ecosystem, including datamarts, dashboards, reports, and analytical frameworks to accelerate decision-making and trend identification.
• Champion Technical Excellence (TEX) through continuous enhancement of data, reporting, analytical capabilities, and tariff sophistication.
• Ensure operational efficiency and strong collaboration across regional and global teams by enabling reuse of standardized tools and reports.
• Act as a people leader by developing, coaching, and assessing talent, providing continuous feedback and structured development planning for direct reports.

What You Will Bring

• Proven leadership experience in pricing, underwriting, data, analytics, or portfolio management within insurance, financial services, or a complex global environment.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Pricing strategy, tariff development, and portfolio optimization
  • Data management, analytics, and reporting transformation
  • Global tool and process harmonization
• Experience leading and developing high-performing international teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate across Markets, Operations, Sales, Finance, and IT.
• Strategic mindset combined with strong execution and delivery capabilities.
• Advanced understanding of predictive analytics, performance monitoring, and decision-support frameworks.
• High level of business acumen, with a clear focus on profitability, competitiveness, and sustainable growth.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a matrixed, multicultural, global organization.

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey. We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Having different strengths, experiences, perspectives and approaches is an integral part of Allianz' company culture. One means to achieve this is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.