Lead Product Owner- Mortgage Pricing

HSBC; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC in the UK is seeking a Lead Product Owner - Mortgage Pricing to shape pricing strategy across the mortgage portfolio. This hybrid role offers base location options including Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield or Chester and requires deep mortgage pricing and analytics expertise.

You will own pricing models, influence business decisions, collaborate with Product, Finance, and Technology teams, and ensure compliance with regulatory expectations while driving growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive UK mortgage pricing and product management experience.
• Deep knowledge of mortgage profitability drivers and pricing governance.
• Strong analytical and modelling capabilities with SQL, SAS, and modern data tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication under pressure.
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations such as Consumer Duty.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance mortgage pricing models and forecasting.
• Translate funding and risk considerations into pricing recommendations.
• Monitor market trends and pricing trade-offs for senior stakeholders.
• Drive governance and post-implementation reviews with Product and Finance.
• Collaborate with Financial Modelling to align assumptions across pricing models.

Skills

Mortgage pricing

Product management

Portfolio management

Commercial finance

Lending discipline

Stakeholder management

Pricing governance

Advanced analytics

Tools

SQL

SAS

Python

GCP

BigQuery

Looker

Job description

If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

We're one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and ultimately, helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Product Owner - Mortgage Pricing.

This is a hybrid working role with a base location of Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, or Chester. You'll join a high-profile team at the forefront of Mortgage Pricing strategy, helping shape customer propositions and drive growth across one of HSBC UK's most important lending portfolios.

This is a key specialist leadership role within the Customer Intelligence team responsible for supporting the successful development, implementation and ongoing management of Mortgage Pricing capabilities. The role holder will contribute to shaping along with being responsible for implementing and continuously optimising mortgage pricing across the portfolio, critical to Driving Lending Growth, one of HSBC RBW’s key strategic objectives. The role combines deep mortgage market expertise, commercial judgement and advanced analytics to deliver sustainable lending growth, competitive customer propositions and disciplined returns within risk appetite and regulatory expectations.

Playing a critical role in delivering lending growth, you will combine deep mortgage market expertise, commercial judgement, and advanced analytics to drive competitive customer propositions, sustainable portfolio performance, and disciplined returns, whilst ensuring compliance with regulatory and risk requirements.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you'll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you will:

• Build and enhance pricing models, elasticity analysis, scenario testing and forecasting to support pricing decisions and performance outcomes
• Develop and manage mortgage pricing across new business, product transfers and retention, balancing customer value, competitiveness, profitability, and risk-adjusted returns alongside other key performance indicators
• Translate funding, capital, liquidity, and credit risk considerations into effective product-level pricing recommendations
• Monitor competitor activity, market trends, and customer behaviour, turning insight into timely pricing actions and clearly explaining trade-offs, sensitivities, risks and expected outcomes to senior stakeholders
• Provide commercial insight and clear recommendations to senior stakeholders, outlining risks, trade-offs, and expected business impacts
• Continuously improve mortgage pricing capability through data, automation, and process enhancements to support growth and customer outcomes
• Ensure pricing models are appropriately governed, monitored, and maintained, identifying performance issues early and taking timely action to avoid adverse impacts.
• Partner with Product and Finance teams to enable effective pricing governance, including approvals, controls, monitoring and post-implementation review, while supporting compliance with Consumer Duty, fair value, responsible lending and internal risk policies.
• Work closely with the Financial Modelling team to define, challenge and maintain aligned assumptions across pricing and financial models, ensuring consistency in forecasts, scenarios and commercial decision-making.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for mortgage pricing, continuously identifying opportunities to achieve best-in-class capability, automate decisioning and strengthen portfolio performance through data, experimentation and process improvement.

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

• Extensive experience in UK mortgage pricing, product management, portfolio management, commercial finance, or a closely related lending discipline (essential)
• Deep knowledge of mortgage products, customer segments, distribution channels, retention strategies, and mortgage profitability drivers
• Strong understanding of funds transfer pricing, swap curves, liquidity and capital costs, credit risk, expected loss, margin, and risk-adjusted return measures
• Advanced analytical and modelling capabilities with experience using pricing tools and data platforms such as SQL, SAS (essential), Python, GCP, BigQuery or Looker
• Ability to interpret market and portfolio data, assess elasticity and sensitivities, and translate complex analysis into commercial pricing decisions
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills, with the ability to provide constructive challenge and make recommendations under pressure (essential)
• Strong knowledge of UK mortgage regulation, Consumer Duty, fair value principles, responsible lending, pricing governance and model and data controls