Pricing Data & Systems Manager

AXA UK; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA UK is seeking a Pricing Data and Systems Manager to join our pricing governance and controls. You will ensure pricing and underwriting systems are robust, leading changes across Radar and legacy systems, and define data requirements with the data team.

The role requires deep insurance data knowledge, expert pricing modelling, and strong collaboration with IT and transformation teams. This position is hybrid, with initial office presence in the UK.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with general insurance data, pricing and underwriting.
• Expert in deploying complex rating models in Radar or equivalent.
• Experience with system testing approaches and live deployment approvals.
• Able to manage multiple priorities with resilience.
• Strong ability to explain technical concepts to business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Owning pricing and underwriting systems, ensure robustness and control.
• Leading implementation of pricing changes across Radar and legacy systems.
• Delivering testing strategy for pricing and underwriting systems.
• Representing pricing on digital and transformation programmes.
• Ensuring pricing data availability and coordinating data requirements.
• Building relationships with pricing teams, data, IT and transformation.
• Leading the pricing data and systems team, coaching reports.
• Owning pricing EUC strategy with data security.

Skills

Insurance pricing

Pricing models

Radar software

System testing

Priorities management

Technical communication

Mathematical skills

Delivery focus

Influencing skills

Collaboration

Tools

Radar

Job description

About AXA:

AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence.

AXA Health supports members to put their health first, from individuals to huge corporates, with fast access to diagnosis and treatment when they need it.

Job overview:

We've made a significant investment in pricing capability with a comprehensive pricing transformation programme. This includes the implementation of new pricing software, market-leading modelling, and performance monitoring approaches. Our pricing structure is more aligned to focus on the key disciplines of technical pricing, market pricing and pricing governance. We have a new opportunity for a Pricing Data and Systems Manager to join us. Reporting into the Head of Pricing Governance and Controls, you'll ensure all pricing and underwriting systems are robust and well controlled, leading on pricing change delivery and incident resolution should systems fail. You'll play a central role in defining and prioritising pricing data requirements, collaborating with the data team to ensure delivery of accurate and timely data.

Key responsibilities:

• Owning all pricing and underwriting systems, ensuring they are robust and well controlled.
• Leading on implementation of all pricing changes across Radar and legacy systems, ensuring requirements are understood and delivered on time.
• Delivering testing strategy and the process for pricing and underwriting systems to ensure pricing as intended, targeting zero error rate.
• Representing pricing on digital and other transformation programmes to ensure Radar requirements are considered and understood.
• Ensuring required pricing data is available when needed, coordinating data requirements across the pricing team, ensuring priority is clear and liaise with the data team to deliver appropriately.
• Building strong relationships with other pricing teams, data, IT and transformation.
• Leading the pricing data and systems team, coaching and developing direct reports, ensuring priorities are aligned with pricing objectives.
• Owning pricing EUC strategy, ensuring all EUC's are delivering pricing or underwriting as intended, with appropriate data security measures in place and rolled out effectively to users.

Work arrangements:

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events.

Your skills & experience:

• Comprehensive understanding of general insurance data and pricing and underwriting approaches.
• Expert in deploying complex rating models/algorithms in Radar or equivalent software.
• Experience of system testing approaches and approval processes prior to deploying live.
• Demonstrable resilience and experience of successfully managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to grasp and explain a range of technical concepts to all business stakeholders.
• Excellent mathematical skills.
• Solution focused, with a strong focus on delivery, and desire for continuous improvement.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude, valuing the contribution of others and understanding the need for collaboration.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

We're proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don't discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we're proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge.

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