Pricing Specialist (Home Pricing Optimisation)

Aviva; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10% of annual salary (target)

Pension scheme with company contrib.

29 days holiday + bank holidays

Private Medical Benefit

Discount on Aviva products

Matching Share Plan

Save As You Earn (SAYE)

Parental and carer’s leave

Flexible benefits

Volunteer days

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Aviva in Leeds is hiring a Pricing Specialist for Home Pricing Optimisation to shape market-leading pricing strategies for UK home insurance. You will develop and improve price optimisation approaches and support pricing strategy while collaborating with underwriting, trading, data and analytics teams to balance customer outcomes with risk and profit.

The role offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities to influence pricing decisions within a growing Personal Lines business.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the UK general insurance market, ideally within personal lines home insurance.
• Proven pricing and underwriting expertise with excellent commercial judgement.
• Strong financial and statistical knowledge, with the ability to turn insight into actionable pricing decisions.
• Ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders across multiple business areas.
• Experience with pricing and analytics tools such as Radar, EMBLEM, SQL and/or Python would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve price optimisation approaches.
• Support wider pricing strategy development.
• Collaborate closely with underwriting, trading, data and analytics, balancing customer outcomes with strong commercial and risk performance.

Job description

Pricing Specialist (Home Pricing Optimisation) – Salary c. £65,000

Location - Leeds

This is a great job for an experienced pricing professional with strong expertise in personal lines pricing who is looking to shape market‑leading pricing strategies and influence the future direction of UK home insurance. If you enjoy combining commercial judgement, data‑driven insight and technical pricing expertise to deliver sustainable growth, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

A bit about the job:

Aviva’s Personal Lines business is entering an exciting phase of growth following a period of strong profitability. As a Pricing Specialist within the Home Optimisation Development team, you'll play a key role in enhancing our home pricing and underwriting capabilities across the Direct Line Retail Pricing business. Working as part of a specialist team, you'll develop and improve price optimisation approaches, support wider pricing strategy development, and help drive sustainable growth. You'll collaborate closely with colleagues across underwriting, trading, data and analytics, balancing customer outcomes with strong commercial and risk performance

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong understanding of the UK general insurance market, ideally within personal lines home insurance
• Proven pricing and underwriting expertise with excellent commercial judgement
• Strong financial and statistical knowledge, with the ability to turn insight into actionable pricing decisions
• Ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders across multiple business areas
• Experience with pricing and analytics tools such as Radar, EMBLEM, SQL and/or Python would be advantageous

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary c. £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary, (actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.)
• Generous pension scheme - e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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