Senior Pricing & Portfolio Analyst

Southern Cross Travel Insurance; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Travel and pet perks

Family-friendly benefits

Peace of mind insurance

Wellbeing leave / flexi-leave

Job summary

Southern Cross Travel Insurance (SCTI) is seeking a pricing analyst to join our Auckland team. You will work across pricing and portfolio management, shaping decisions that influence profitability, growth and customer outcomes across New Zealand and Australia.

You’ll build, refine and maintain pricing models and translate insights into actionable pricing changes with broad exposure to decision-makers. You’ll also collaborate closely with underwriting, data, finance and technology teams, driving

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in pricing, actuarial or analytics.
• Strong pricing modelling and impact analysis experience.
• Coding capability in R, Python or SQL.

Responsibilities

• Analyse portfolio performance and generate pricing insights.
• Build, refine and maintain pricing models across products and markets.
• Translate insights into recommended pricing changes and actions.
• Conduct impact analysis and support testing prior to deployment.
• Improve pricing processes and ways of working.
• Collaborate with underwriting, data, finance and customer teams to enable pricing changes.
• Support more frequent pricing adjustments through better data and processes.
• Work across pricing, portfolio management and business decision-making.

Skills

Pricing modelling

Impact analysis

Data literacy

R programming

Python

SQL

Job description

Southern Cross Travel Insurance – Auckland, North Island

At Southern Cross Travel Insurance (SCTI),we’vegotyour back in the moments that matter.We are part of theSouthern Crossgroup of brandswhich allfocus onwellbeing. Thismeanswesupport our people to do and be their best every day.

SCTI isproud to be the market leader in New Zealand andgrowing inAustralia, andwe’rejust getting started.Travel is changing, and so areour customers’needs.That’swhywe’rehere with real care, reassurance, and smart solutions to keep people moving confidently.We’retravellers at heart, and we bring that spirit into everything we do-innovating, improving, and going further together.

Our culture is inclusive andvalues driven. We empower our people to make decisions, share ideas, and succeed. When you join SCTI,you’rejoining a teamthat’s

Help shape the next stage of SCTI's pricing journey.

SCTI is investing in the future of pricing, and this role offers the opportunity to play a meaningful part in that evolution.

With pricing recently brought in-house and significant opportunities to enhance systems, data, processes and analytical capability, we're looking for someone who wants to do more than maintain existing models and reports. We're looking for someone who is excited by the opportunity to improve how pricing is done and help build the capabilities that will support SCTI's future growth.

You’ll work across pricing and portfolio management, helping to shape decisions that influence profitability, growth and customer outcomes across both New Zealand and Australia. From pricing analysis and portfolio performance monitoring through to capability development, automation and innovation, you'll have broad exposure, direct access to decision-makers, and the opportunity to make a tangible contribution.

This role offers a unique combination of technical, commercial and strategic experience. You'll work closely with experienced leaders while helping develop a modern pricing function that can scale with SCTI's growth ambitions. In doing so, you'll broaden your expertise across pricing, portfolio management and business decision-making.

You’ll also have the opportunity to see your ideas progress from concept to implementation, with a level of visibility and influence that is often difficult to achieve in larger organisations.

If you're naturally curious, enjoy solving complex problems and want the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on how pricing capability develops, this could be the role for you.

Key responsibilities:

• Analyse portfolio performance and generate insights to inform pricing decisions
• Build, refine andmaintainpricing models across products and markets
• Translate insights into recommended pricing changes and business actions
• Conduct impact analysis and support testing prior to deployment
• Contribute to improving pricing processes and ways of working
• Work closely with portfolio,technologyand wider teams to enable pricing changes
• Support more frequent, responsive pricing adjustments through better data and processes
• Collaborate across underwriting, data,financeand customer teams
  

About you:

You’rea commercially minded analyst whoenjoys working across the full picture,from data through to decisions,and is motivated by improving how things are done.

• 3–5 years’ experience in pricing, actuarial or analytics role
  
• Strong experience in pricing modelling and impact analysis (essential)
• Comfortable working with data and translating insights into action
• Coding capability in R, Python or SQL (or the ability to pick this up)
• Understanding of how models work, not just how to run them
• Able to work across multiple parts of a process rather than a single specialism
• Curious,proactiveand comfortable working in a developing environment
• Insurance experience preferred, but transferable experience from banking or similar considered

Whyyou’lllove working with us

We believe work should fit around life,not the other way around. When you join SCTI,you’llenjoyperksthat make a real difference for you and your whānau:

• Health and wellbeing first-fully subsidised medical insurance for you and your immediatefamily
• Travel and petperks-discounted travel and pet insurance, plusspecial dealsfor your whānau
• Family-friendly benefits-extra parental leavebenefitswhen it matters most
• Peace of mind-life and terminal illness insurance
• Time for you-five days of wellbeing leave every year, plus theoptionto buy extra flexi-leave
• Flexibility that works-hybrid working options so you can work from home part of the week

Because when we say we’vegot your back, we mean it-at work and in life.

Our commitment to diversity

Just like the places our customers travel to, our people are wonderfully diverse.We’recommitted to creating an inclusive culture where every voice is heard and every perspective is valued. Applications are welcome from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, andwalks of life.

Applicants for this position must meet legal requirements to work in New Zealand.