Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist

Hastings Direct; Bexhill-on-Sea; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist to enhance its Home team. This role involves developing and implementing advanced pricing models and requires strong programming skills in Python along with expertise in machine learning techniques. The successful candidate will work in a flexible hybrid environment while benefiting from a competitive salary and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary plus £5k car allowance

Flexible hybrid working

Competitive bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Matched pension contributions up to 10%

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Mental wellbeing programme and support

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering commercial value using machine learning.
• Experience with data science technologies and tooling.
• Ability to drive projects from initiation to completion.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement advanced statistical models into live pricing.
• Collaborate with the Underwriting team to enhance Home data.
• Engage stakeholders to gather business requirements.

Skills

Advanced Python programming

Supervised machine learning techniques

Proficiency in SQL

Experience in cloud deployments

Data manipulation libraries (NumPy, Pandas)

Familiarity with Git

Job description

Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist – Home Underwriting

To build upon the foundations and early successes of the recently formed Home team, we are looking for an experienced Technical Pricing Manager / Senior Data Scientist with strong programming skills and a passion for data. This candidate will fuel our ongoing development of the technical models that are critical to the next stage of our commercial agenda.

Accountabilities

• Develop, analyse and oversee the implementation of advanced statistical and machine learning models into live pricing.
• Develop tools and solutions to support risk portfolio management.
• Stretch the team’s capabilities in AI, ML and cloud technologies.
• Work cross‑functionally with the wider Underwriting team to develop the Home data landscape.
• Engineer powerful new features for pricing algorithms.
• Advocate for data science and software development best practices.
• Engage commercial stakeholders to gather business requirements and coordinate project activities.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering commercial value using supervised machine learning techniques.
• Advanced Python programming with experience in NumPy, Pandas, scikit‑learn and other data manipulation libraries.
• Advanced knowledge of data science technologies, tooling and platforms.
• Proficiency in SQL and Git.
• Ability to drive projects from initiation to completion.
• Keen interest in emerging ML techniques.
• Experience with cloud deployments (Azure, AWS, GCP) – desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus £5k car allowance.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Competitive bonus scheme.
• Private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection.
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%.
• Annual leave 27 days + bank holidays plus the option to buy or sell additional days.
• Health‑care cashback plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, cycle‑to‑work and tech schemes.
• Mental wellbeing programme and 24/7 support.
• Free independent mortgage advice and other financial wellbeing support.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity and are a Disability‑Confident company.