Pricing Practitioner COE (B4)

Direct Line Group Careers; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Pricing expert to join their Pricing & Underwriting Centre of Expertise. In this exciting role, you will leverage your pricing expertise to manage governance and control environments, ensuring compliance with regulations while driving best practices. You'll work in a hybrid model, allowing flexibility between home and office, and collaborate with various teams to influence impactful changes for customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills in a supportive environment that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

9% employer contributed pension

50% off insurance products

Health and Dental insurance

Up to 10% bonus

EV car scheme

25 days annual leave

Buy as you earn share scheme

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Strong pricing skills ideally across technical and retail pricing.
• Good understanding of managing pricing and underwriting risk.

Responsibilities

• Support management and oversight of the P&U control environment.
• Lead key activities to deliver control outcomes effectively.

Skills

Pricing Skills

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Job description

P&U Job Description

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 complicated world, where historical data, geospatial information, and mathematical models meet talented analysts. Pricing our products is a fine line between balancing our 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 continue to grow whilst each and every one of our consumers gets the best price.

Join us as a Pricing expert in our Pricing & Underwriting Centre of Expertise. Here you’ll use your pricing expertise to work with the pricing and underwriting community and our Risk teams to manage our P&U governance and control environment. You’ll lead delivery of key pricing and underwriting control outcomes working across multiple tribes to drive alignment, best practice and compliance with the control environment.

What you’ll be doing

Working in an agile way means you’ll take charge early on, soak up new experiences and most importantly you’ll positively influence and shape what we do – making an impact on our customers' lives. We’ll utilise your skills where they are most needed whilst also giving you the opportunity to build and grow the breadth of your expertise.

As part of your role, you will support the management, ongoing development and oversight of the P&U control environment to ensure compliance with legislation and regulation and the safe delivery of pricing and underwriting change. You will lead key activity to deliver control outcomes in a timely and effective manner.

You’ll report to the Head of P&U Centre of Expertise as part of the wider COE team.

What you’ll need

• You’ll have strong pricing skills ideally across technical and retail pricing.
• You’ll have a good understanding of managing pricing and underwriting risk through a control environment.
• You’ll be strong in stakeholder management and in engaging across teams at all levels.

Ways of working

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Read our flexible working approach here

What we’ll give you (Band 4)

We wouldn’t be where we are today without our people and the wide variety of perspectives and life experiences they bring. That’s why we offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model combining the best parts of home and office-working, varying with the nature of your role. Our core benefits include:

• 9% employer contributed pension
• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover
• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
• Up to 10% bonus
• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing each year up to a maximum of 28
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Employee discounts and cashback
• Plus many more!

Being Yourself

Difference makes us who we are. We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work – that’s why we champion diverse voices, build workplaces that work for people, and invest in the things that matter. From senior leadership to inclusivity networks, adaptive working to inclusion training, we’ve made it our mission to give you everything you need to be authentically you. Discover more at directlinegroupcareers.com

Together we’re one of a kind.

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