Manager, Pricing, Savings and Retirement

Pacific Asset Management, LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm based in Greater London is seeking a Manager for its Pricing team in Savings and Retirement. The role involves delivering quotes, managing actuaries, and providing technical support to enhance market growth across Japan and North America. Candidates should be qualified actuaries with strong technical backgrounds, effective communication skills, and experience in people management. This firm offers comprehensive benefits including parental leave and private insurance coverage.

Benefits

25 days annual leave with buy/sell options

Generous enhanced parental leave

Comprehensive private insurance coverage

Group life insurance of 9x basic salary

Wellness subsidized gym membership

Cycle to Work scheme

Charitable matching of employee donations

Qualifications

• 3+ years of post-qualified experience in insurance or consultancy.
• Exposure to experience analysis and basis setting.
• Ability to communicate complex actuarial concepts.

Responsibilities

• Manage insurance pricing actuaries and analysts.
• Support market growth through pricing solutions.
• Deliver quotes for clients in the Savings markets.

Skills

Strong and relevant technical experience in (re)insurance

Experience in GLM and advanced statistical techniques

Communication skills

People management experience

Education

Qualified actuary (member of IFoA or SOA)

Job description

Job Title

Manager, Pricing, Savings and Retirement

Role Overview

The Savings & Retirement (S&R) Insurance Pricing team is responsible for producing the best estimate insurance assumptions for clients in our global markets. The team’s responsibilities span Pension Risk Transfer, Individual Retirement and Savings for Retirement products. We are looking to hire a manager for our growing pricing team, who will primarily support our Savings markets (Japan, wider APAC, North America, Continental Europe) through tender activity composta and ongoing technical / pricing support. The successful candidate will be based in our London office, Tower Bridge House, St Katharine’s Way. As a proactive and technical senior actuary, you will work on a team to deliver quotes for clients. Your expertise in pricing and experience analysis will support you as you work alongside the Client Solutions team to deliver creative solutions and support market growth, to meet the needs of our clients. You will also be responsible for managing the insurance pricing actuaries and analysts within the teamathu.

Responsibilities

Skills & Experience

• Have strong and relevant technical experience in (re)insurance, consultancy or another statistical role.
• Experience in GLM and advanced statistical techniques would be preferable.
• Experience in a pricing role is not essential but would be advantageous.
• Be a qualified actuary (a member of the IFoA or SOA) with 3+ years of post-qualified experience.
• Have exposure to experience analysis and basis setting, including but not limited to mortality, morbidity, and lapse assumptions.
• Have strong communication skills. Able to communicate complex actuarial concepts to a range of audiences both verbally and written.
• Have experience in people management and supporting newly qualified actuaries and actuar চক analysts in their work.

Competencies commentaire Behaviours

• Courage – willingness to explore new tools and techniques to support our pricing across new and existing markets. Ability to propose creative solutions to problems not previously seen and support those proposals with the appropriate analysis.
• Partnership – ability to work within and across teams to design the best solutions for our clients. While this role is an Insurance Pricing one, being able to work closely with Deal Pricing and Client Solutions is vital.
• Integrity – working with first, second and third‑line teams to ensure that PL nostalgia is making an informed risk assessment of new business opportunities. Working openly to share analysis with review functions while also being able to justify and support your proposals.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)

• Leave – 25 days of annual leave with option to buy / sell more days.
• Adoption and fertility leave.Generous enhanced parental leave healthcare.
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents.
• Group life insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and group income protection up to 75% of basic annual salary.
• Optical benefits.
• 15% combined employee / employer contributions.
• Wellness – subsidizedITI Та gym membership.
• Access to employee assistance program.
• Cycle to Work and Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
• Time off for volunteering.
• Charitable matching of employee donations.

Pacific Life Re Values

At Pacific Life Re, our vision is to bring an innovative and dynamic approach to the marketplace. We value disrupting and challenging industry thinking to provide the best life and health reinsurance services possible. Working in some of the most complex and fast‑moving markets has taught us that knowledge and innovation go hand in hand. Today, we are continuing our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and Bermuda. With over 1000 employees worldwide, we take pride in our inclusive culture, underpinned by our values and behaviours, providing an environment where everyone can grow and develop.

Employment Conditions

We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.