Manager - Pricing Intelligence

Bupa Arabia; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bupa Arabia is seeking a data analytics and actuarial‑driven professional to drive underwriting insights, performance monitoring, and strategic decision support. The role spans governance, pricing optimization, and business intelligence across segments and channels.

You will translate data into actionable recommendations, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and help shape annual plans and forecasts with rigorous analyses.

Qualifications

• Strong statistical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability of identifying & linking operational KPIs to financial outcomes.
• Advanced data manipulation & analytical skills.
• Pricing, underwriting, and actuarial methodologies knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide data analytics to drive underwriting & business performance optimization.
• Develop and govern data pipelines and reporting tools.
• Perform variance analysis and translate insights into action.
• Assess pricing strategies and optimization opportunities across segments.
• Produce business insights to support plans, forecasts and strategy.
• Ensure governance and compliance of underwriting practices and controls.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Data manipulation

Pricing & underwriting

Actuarial methodologies

Problem solving

Communication

Stakeholder management

Storytelling & visualization

Education

Actuarial

Finance

Industrial Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Serve as a think tank providing profound business insights and drive underwriting & business performance optimization, while empowering strategic decision-making through market intelligence, data-driven insights, and digital transformation.

1-Data Analytics

• Ability to structure datasets and understand underlying concepts
• Ensure data governance and consistency of data pipelines and reporting tools
• Drive automation and enhancements of reporting tools and underlying data pipelines
• Improve data models to enable advanced and scalable analysis

2-Performance Monitoring & Reporting

• Ability to develop reporting and manage reporting tools across key functional KPIs
• Conduct variance analysis ( Actual Vs. Expected, annual operating plans delivery forecasts,. Etc) and identify key performance drivers.

3- Statistical Analysis

• Analyze cost & claims development, market inflation trends and portfolio risk dynamics
• Evaluate Pricing accuracy through benchmarking, trend analysis,…etc
• Apply statistical techniques in variance decomposition, sensitivity analysis,…etc
• Translate actuarial recommendations into business decisions through impact assessments and implementation plans

4- Portfolio management & Optimization

• Assess and challenge pricing strategies across business segments and challenges
• Evaluate impact of pricing thresholds and decisions on business growth, profitability and market standing
• Identification of optimization and value creation through business segment, pricing discipline, underwriting improvements
• Support and own pricing frameworks and guidelines

5- Business Insights, and Stakeholder management

• Produce analytical inputs into annual operating plans, forecasts, and strategic plans
• Identify structural performance gaps across segments, channels, location
• Translation of data into actionable business insights and recommendations
• Support cross functional initiatives such collaboration with sales, strategy & planning, actuarial, operations, etc

6- Governance & Control

• Ensure effective embedded controls to detect inappropriate underwriting practices.
• Ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and enforced.
• Ensure that those procedures are monitored through periodic reviews and all underwriting practices are up-to-date and compliant with the latest updates by the regulators.

Skills

Technical:

• Strong statistical and problem-solving skills
• Ability of identifying & linking operational KPIs to financial outcomes
• Advanced data manipulation & analytical skills
• Pricing, underwriting, and actuarial methodologies knowledge

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Stakeholder management
• Storytelling & visualization skills

Education

Actuarial, Finance, Industrial Engineering & related majors