Pricing Data & Systems Manager

AXA UK; 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 team. Reporting into the Head of Pricing, you’ll own pricing and underwriting systems, lead change delivery across Radar and legacy platforms, and drive data-driven decision making to improve accuracy and performance.

You will collaborate with pricing, data, IT and transformation peers, coach direct reports, and ensure security and compliant EUC practices across pricing initiatives.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of general insurance data and pricing and underwriting approaches.
• Experience deploying complex rating models/algorithms in Radar or equivalent software.
• Experience with system testing approaches and approval processes prior to deploying live.
• Strong delivery focus with ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Owning 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.

Skills

Insurance data

Pricing concepts

System testing

Delivery focus

Communication of technical concepts

Mathematics

Influencing

Collaboration

Prioritisation

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.

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