Pricing Practitioner

Direct Line Group; Bromley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading insurance company as a Senior/Principal Pricing Analyst to lead pricing and underwriting outcomes. You will utilize your pricing experience and technical expertise to influence decision-making and enhance pricing performance. This role involves collaboration with teams across various domains such as trading, optimisation, and risk pricing.

Benefits

50% off home, motor, and pet insurance

Up to 10% annual bonus

25 days holiday (rising to 28)

Additional health and dental insurance options

EV car scheme for leasing electric cars

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Prior pricing experience in an insurance role.
• Technical expertise in trading, modelling, optimisation, risk modelling.
• Ability to positively influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead pricing & underwriting outcomes within your domain.
• Support decision-making aligned with commercial and strategic objectives.
• Develop innovative solutions to challenging problems.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Curiosity

Tools

Radar

Emblem

SAS

SQL

Python

Job description

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Leeds, London & Home (office visits c. once per month)

Let’s make the most of your talent

Join us as a General Insurance Senior/Principle Pricing Analyst within our Pricing & Underwriting Chapter, whether it’s optimisation, trading, retail or risk pricing or even data science, we’ve got an opportunity for you.

About Us:

At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.

Pricing and Underwriting is a complex field, where historical data, geospatial information, and mathematical models meet talented analysts. Pricing our products involves balancing business goals and customer needs. That’s why our pricers and underwriters are the best of the best. They reduce risk and predict future events, ensuring our business can grow while providing the best prices for our consumers.

What you’ll be doing:

Working in an agile environment, you’ll take charge early on, learn new experiences, and positively influence our work—making an impact on our customers’ lives. We’ll utilize your skills where they are most needed and give you opportunities to build and grow your expertise. You’ll join one of our tribes (home, motor, pet, travel, etc.) and focus on a key area of pricing within your squad.

- Lead the delivery of pricing & underwriting outcomes within your domain (trading, optimisation, risk pricing, etc.) to help your squad achieve its goals.

- Support decision-making aligned with commercial, customer, and strategic objectives.

- Improve DLG’s pricing performance and long-term capability while maintaining discipline in pricing & underwriting.

- Use your technical and analytical skills to influence your team and the wider chapter, developing innovative solutions to challenging problems.

- Engage with the broader Pricing & Underwriting community to influence objectives and priorities.

- Support colleagues’ work and development to enhance overall squad capability.

- Lead relevant pricing and chapter projects as needed.

What we are looking for:

- Prior pricing experience in an insurance role and adaptability to a changing environment.

- Demonstrable technical expertise in areas like trading, modelling, optimisation, risk modelling, etc.

- Experience with software & tools such as Radar, Emblem, SAS, SQL, Python.

- Curiosity, collaboration, excellent communication, and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to positively influence stakeholders.

What we offer:

We value our colleagues and offer benefits to suit your lifestyle:

- 50% off home, motor, and pet insurance, plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover.

- Up to 10% annual bonus.

- 25 days holiday (rising to 28), bank holidays, and options to buy or sell days.

- Additional health and dental insurance options.

- EV car scheme for leasing electric or hybrid vehicles.

- Buy as you earn share scheme.

- Employee discounts and cashback.

And much more.

Join us to be part of a team that empowers you to be your best. We’re proud of our identity, our work, and what each of us contributes. Help us innovate and put customers first to shape the future of insurance. Together, we can achieve great things—challenging, inspiring, and supporting each other to reach higher.

Together we’re one of a kind.

Ways of Working:

Our flexible working model combines home and office work, tailored to your role. The amount of office presence depends on your position, and we’re open to flexible arrangements that suit you.

Read our flexible working approach.

If you need reasonable adjustments during this process, please contact us to discuss how we can support you.