Senior Data Scientist: Pricing & Analytics Lead

Hastings Direct; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

£5k car allowance

Hybrid working

Annual bonus

Private medical Insurance

Life insurance & pension

Wellbeing programs

28 days leave

Job summary

Hastings Direct is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Pricing team in the UK, focusing on advanced analytics to evolve pricing strategies. You will work with extensive datasets to improve models and support pricing decisions across motor insurance products.

The role offers hybrid working options, with collaboration across the Pricing, Data and Analytics community of over 200 colleagues, and opportunities to influence pricing innovation and risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Azure ML, Git, Azure Cloud Services (Essential)
• Multiple track record of delivery of ML projects from EDA to deployment, post deployment evaluation and model refreshing. (Essential)
• Work accurately and independently with little supervision when required (Essential)
• 3 – 6 years’ experience in data science roles (Essential)
• Knowledge of UK motor insurance market (Desirable)
• Nearly / newly qualified actuary (Desirable)

Responsibilities

• Challenge the status quo in insurance pricing by developing innovative pricing solutions
• Own the end to end delivery of pricing changes from concept to live deployment
• Seek out new data opportunities and work to extract value from them
• Develop best in-class models to predict claims outcomes, fraud and other risk KPIs
• Support the development of junior analysts within the team

Skills

Python

SQL

Azure ML

Git

Azure Cloud Services

Tools

Git

Azure ML

Job description

Hastings Direct is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Pricing team in the UK, focusing on advanced analytics to evolve pricing strategies. You will work with extensive datasets to improve models and support pricing decisions across motor insurance products.

The role offers hybrid working options, with collaboration across the Pricing, Data and Analytics community of over 200 colleagues, and opportunities to influence pricing innovation and risk assessment.