Pricing Scrum Master

Markerstudy Group; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the UK is seeking an experienced Scrum Master to facilitate agile delivery within their Pricing and Underwriting department. Responsibilities include running Scrum ceremonies, collaborating with stakeholders, and promoting agile best practices. Ideal candidates will have significant experience as a Scrum Master in a data-heavy environment, knowledge of insurance processes, and relevant certifications. The role supports a collaborative work environment with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Private medical health care plan

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Discounts and cashback on shopping and travel

Life Assurance 4x annual salary

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a regulated, data-heavy environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience in insurance, especially in pricing or underwriting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for agile teams focused on pricing development.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies.
• Remove blockers and help the team navigate dependencies.

Skills

Scrum Master experience

Agile frameworks knowledge

Insurance domain experience

Coaching and facilitation skills

Conflict resolution skills

Education

Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or SAFe)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

This role is largely remote with the occasional travel.

We’re seeking an experienced Scrum Master to support the setting up and ongoing embedding of the agile delivery of key initiatives within our Pricing and Underwriting department. You will facilitate agile ceremonies, promote agile best practices, and help cross-functional teams deliver high-value solutions that enhance our pricing models, underwriting tools, and decision engines.

This role will be pivotal in helping to delivering an ambitious transformation programme and embed a fully agile approach to managing continuous improvement and BAU change.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Serve as Scrum Master for one or more agile teams focused on pricing development, transformation activity for pricing processes & platforms and data analytics tools.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives).
• Remove blockers and help the team navigate dependencies, particularly with actuarial, data science, and product functions.
• Champion continuous improvement and agile principles, encouraging a learning culture within the team.
• Work closely with Product Owners to maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog aligned to business goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Pricing, Underwriting, IT, and Data to ensure alignment on objectives and technical requirements.
• Promote visibility and transparency through clear reporting on team velocity, delivery progress, and impediments.
• Coach wider team members on agile frameworks and ensure the team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.
• Support the adoption and improvement of tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).

Skills, Experience & Knowledge

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master in a regulated, data-heavy environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and agile delivery within cross-functional teams.
• Experience in insurance, ideally within pricing, actuarial, or underwriting domains.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience working with actuarial or machine learning teams (advantageous).
• Familiarity with tools and technologies used in insurance pricing e.g., Radar, Emblem, R, Python (advantageous)
• Certification (CSM, PSM, or SAFe Scrum Master) is preferred.

Why us?

Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited (MISL) is one of the largest Managing General Agents in the UK. With a strong presence in the UK motor insurance market, we specialise in niche motor cover, where our solid market knowledge and experience enables us to create highly targeted products.

Our success is underpinned by our underwriting strategy to identify and apply special risk factors to the customers’ advantage. That, and our skilled underwriting technicians who are friendly, accessible and empowered to make decisions.

We only transact business through professional UK insurance intermediaries and we take pride in fostering excellent working relationships. Our products feature prominently on Aggregators' sites, such as Confused.com, Go Compare and Compare the Market, via our broker partners.

What we offer in return?

• A collaborative and fast paced work environment
• Private medical health care plan
• 28 days annual leave plus of Bank Holidays and the ability to buy holiday
• A benefit scheme that offers discounts and cashback on shopping, restaurants, travel and more
• Life Assurance 4x annual salary