Pricing Automation Analyst

hastingsdirect; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

4Cs performance bonus

Life assurance

Income protection

Matched pension contributions

Mental wellbeing programme

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Hastings Direct, a digital insurance provider, is seeking a Pricing Automation Analyst to enhance pricing analytics, data products, and automation pipelines. The role sits in a hybrid setup across Leicester, Bexhill, and London, with a focus on delivering commercial value and improving underwriting pricing processes.

The team emphasizes collaboration, cutting-edge tech, and career development within a disability-confident employer.

Qualifications

• Analytical thinker with pricing/underwriting experience is a plus.
• Strong problem solving and ownership of issues across multiple workstreams.
• Clear communication and collaboration across teams to maximise product value.

Skills

Python

SQL

Git/GitHub

Tools

Snowflake

PySpark

Azure

Job description

Job Title: Pricing Automation Analyst
Location: Leicester / Bexhill / London - Hybrid

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position

Welcome to Hastings Direct
We're a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company, we've made huge investments in our technology, pricing, data and analytics capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as a Finance team, we're doing exactly the same - building a market leading finance technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business.

The fact you're now reading this job advert means we've tempered you to find out more about #lifeatHD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team.

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you.

Overview

Our mission is to create the leading suite of analytical & data products in the industry for empowering our pricing, data and analytics community to move faster and deliver more - with major commercial benefits. We as a team are working to maximise the efficiency and the quality of our underwriting pricing and host a range of tooling that is being adopted across the wider business. We're looking for people to push new research to deliver commercial value directly and support our other product teams to improve too.

About us

Here's what's best about working with us:

• Working at the cutting edge of ambitious new concepts that will drive business success
• Awesome tech stack
• Low friction and few blockers to getting things done
• Be a key contributor at the intersection of pricing, modelling, engineering & more
• Communal and well-connected environment; support to make every day productive, enjoyable and enriching

About you

Personal

• Analytical thinker / problem solver: Experience in pricing, market dynamics, underwriting a plus
• Strong accountability: confident owning and solving problems, challenging status quo
• Brilliant communicator: able to engage and trade information effective in any setting
• Committed to collaboration: help internal customers get the most out of our products
• Responsive: able to context switch comfortably across multiple workstreams
• Lifelong learner: growth mindset both with and without direction

Technical

• Python
• SQL
• git and GitHub (branching, pull requests, ...)

Bonus round (don't be put off if you don't tick any/all the boxes here!)!

• Automation of processes/pipelines for data, analytics and operations
• ML-specific Python libraries
• Big data stack (snowflake/park, pyspark)
• Cloud computing, in particular Azure

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website

Benefits

• Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach - please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail
• Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus
• Financial wellbeing - as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award-winning package which includes - discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
• Mental wellbeing programme - we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs
• There's more! - 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and ...

Join us and you'll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you'll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we'll give you all the support, training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and