Senior Actuarial Manager, Pricing

Unum Ireland; Dorking; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Private medical insurance

Health and wellbeing support

Holiday allowance

Electric vehicle scheme

Job summary

Unum UK is seeking an experienced actuary to lead pricing for Group Income Protection, Group Life, Group Dependants and Group Critical Illness. You will own pricing reviews, experience investigations and make recommendations for pricing changes in a commercially robust framework.

In this hybrid role, you will partner with Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing and DT&T, provide coaching to actuarial students, and help shape pricing capability across the business while ensuring governance and

Qualifications

• Qualified actuary with post-qualification experience in life/health or protection insurance.
• Strong pricing experience with ability to review assumptions and investigations.
• Degree-level education in a mathematically oriented subject (2:1 or above).
• Numerate, comfortable with data and pricing models, proficient IT tools for analysis.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management to present to senior audiences.
• Balance technical rigor with commercial judgment; manage competing priorities.
• Curiosity and external market awareness to improve pricing approaches.
• Leadership capability to coach actuarial colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the setting of central pricing bases and agree product terms across Unum’s Group Income Protection, Group Life, Group Dependants and Group Critical Illness products.
• Own and deliver pricing reviews, annual experience investigations, and recommendations for changes to pricing assumptions, ensuring appropriate peer and risk reviews are completed.
• Monitor emerging risk trends, new money rates, expenses and cost of capital, recommending pricing adjustments where needed to keep our approach commercially robust and within risk appetite.
• Play a key role in pricing governance, preparing clear reports and presenting recommendations to senior forums including the Pricing Governance Group, Strategic Revenue Price Group and other committees.
• Work closely with key partners across Financial Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing and DT&T, helping to translate pricing insight into practical commercial decisions.
• Consider the impact of pricing recommendations on vulnerable customers, fair value, Conduct Risk, Consumer Duty and wider Solvency II governance requirements.
• Maintain strong controls across pricing processes, while proactively identifying opportunities to improve ways of working within the team.
• Support pricing and risk selection strategic initiatives, helping shape the future direction of pricing capability across the business.
• Provide line management, technical guidance and coaching to actuarial students and newly qualified actuaries, supporting their development and contribution to the team.

Skills

Pricing experience

Actuarial analysis

Stakeholder management

Leadership coaching

Data analysis

Education

Mathematics/Statistics degree

Tools

Excel

Pricing models

Job description

Who are we?

We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive.

The role

What will you be doing?

• Lead the setting of central pricing bases and agree product terms across Unum’s Group Income Protection, Group Life, Group Dependants and Group Critical Illness products.
• Own and deliver pricing reviews, annual experience investigations, and recommendations for changes to pricing assumptions, ensuring appropriate peer and risk reviews are completed.
• Monitor emerging risk trends, new money rates, expenses and cost of capital, recommending pricing adjustments where needed to keep our approach commercially robust and within risk appetite.
• Play a key role in pricing governance, preparing clear reports and presenting recommendations to senior forums including the Pricing Governance Group, Strategic Revenue Price Group and other committees.
• Work closely with key partners across Financial Underwriting, Distribution, Marketing and DT&T, helping to translate pricing insight into practical commercial decisions.
• Consider the impact of pricing recommendations on vulnerable customers, fair value, Conduct Risk, Consumer Duty and wider Solvency II governance requirements.
• Maintain strong controls across pricing processes, while proactively identifying opportunities to improve ways of working within the team.
• Support pricing and risk selection strategic initiatives, helping shape the future direction of pricing capability across the business.
• Provide line management, technical guidance and coaching to actuarial students and newly qualified actuaries, supporting their development and contribution to the team.

What will you bring?

• You’ll be a qualified actuary with strong post-qualification experience, ideally gained within life, health or protection insurance.
• You’ll bring strong pricing experience, with the technical confidence to review assumptions, investigate experience and make sound recommendations in a complex commercial environment.
• You’ll have a degree-level education, ideally 2:1 or above, in a subject with significant mathematical or statistical content.
• You’ll be highly numerate, comfortable working with data and pricing models, and confident using IT tools to support analysis and decision-making.
• You’ll have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise reports and present technical recommendations to senior audiences.
• You’ll be able to balance technical rigour with commercial judgement, managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality work under pressure.
• You’ll bring curiosity and external market awareness, applying new ideas and industry insight to help improve pricing approaches and business outcomes.
• You’ll have the leadership capability to coach, guide and develop actuarial colleagues, supporting both technical growth and career progression.

Location

Hybrid working. 3 days in office, 2 days from home. From office locations in Dorking, London or Basingstoke. (Dorking location preferred for office days)

Benefits

• Bonus
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Private medical insurance
• Health and wellbeing support
• Holiday allowance
• Electric vehicle scheme

Why join us?

At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life.

As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace, we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions. If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application, you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail]. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

Company: Unum UK

At Unum Group, we’re a Fortune 500 company and leading international provider of workplace benefits and services, helping workers and their families thrive for more than 175 years. Through our Unum and Colonial Life brands, our company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision insurance; leave and absence management support; and behavioral health services. Our 10,000+ employees work across operations in the US, UK and Poland, as well as our dedicated Technology Centre in Ireland.

Unum Group is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for any applicant with a disability. If you are disabled and need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or hiring process, please contact us by submitting a request here.