Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic

Ageas UK; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the UK is looking for a Lead Pricing Analyst to guide market positioning through analytics and strategic recommendations. This full-time position involves developing predictive models and engaging in market research, impacting profitability and growth. Flexible working and extensive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Dental Insurance

Annual Bonus Schemes

Well-being activities

Maternity benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a relevant role in a data-driven environment.
• Knowledge of Home insurance products is essential.
• Experience of using statistics to explore and validate data.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation, validation, and review of predictive models.
• Ensure the accuracy of data used for modeling and pricing.
• Evaluate new internal and external data to enhance risk pricing.

Skills

Data-driven experience

Home insurance knowledge

Statistical analysis

Programming (SAS, R, Python)

Predictive modelling techniques

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12.08.2025

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Job Description:

Job Title:Lead Pricing Analyst- Strategic
Target Start Date:ASAP
Contract Type:FTC – until June 2026
Salary Range:Circa £70,000
Location:Any UK Ageas office, hybrid

Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic:The Strategic Lead Pricing Analyst plays a crucial role in shaping the company’s long-term market position and profitability through advanced analytics, market research and strategic recommendations.

This role involves leading and reviewing detailed data analysis using sophisticated actuarial and statistical techniques to inform pricing actions aimed at increasing volume, income, and profit. The resulting pricing actions will have a direct and immediate impact on the future profitability and growth of the business, with key targets to increase conversion, retention, and achieve target loss ratios.

Additionally, the analyst conducts in-depth market research, utilizes advanced analytics, provides strategic recommendations to senior management, enhances risk models with new data insights, collaborates across product lines, and engages in dynamic, project-based work.

Please note this is an FTC until June 2026.

Main Responsibilities asLead Pricing Analyst - Strategic:

• Predictive Model Development: Lead the creation, validation, and review of predictive models, including machine learning models, and recommend their use in risk pricing.
• Data Accuracy: Ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of data used for modelling, pricing, and monitoring.
• Data Assessment: Evaluate new internal and external data to enhance risk pricing, build cost-benefit analyses, and present findings to stakeholders. Collaborate with pricing and implementation teams to deploy new data.
• Tender Support: Provide risk pricing support for tender responses, working closely with Distribution and Underwriting teams.
• Pricing Analysis: Conduct and lead pricing analyses, prepare options for senior stakeholders, and clearly present findings to gain their buy-in. Coordinate rate deployment as needed.
• Monitoring Dashboards: Develop and lead the creation of monitoring dashboards that meet business needs.
• Project Management: Execute, develop, and manage projects across all stages of the price control cycle.
• Team Influence: Inform and influence peers within the team and across Ageas.
• Strategic Initiatives: Work with underwriting and pricing teams to deliver on strategic initiatives.
• Market Trends: Identify and monitor market trends that could impact the pricing and underwriting of products.

Skills and experience you need as Lead Pricing Analyst - Strategic:

• Experience in a relevant role in a data-driven environment.
• Knowledge of Home insurance products is essential.
• Experience of using statistics to explore and validate data, extract and manipulate large datasets for analysis.
• Experienced in the use of a programming language ( SAS, R, Python) and/or statistical packages actuarial pricing software.
• Experience in SOME of the following predictive modelling techniques Logistic Regression, Log-Gamma GLMs, GBMs, Elastic Net GLMs, GAMs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines and Neural Nets.

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 Employerstatus in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageasgives 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 InsuranceHealth Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, yoga, 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- Returnto work programme after maternity leave.