Manager, Pricing, Protection, Asia

Pacific Life Re; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Life Re in Singapore seeks a Manager, Pricing, Protection, Asia to lead the Asia Protection Pricing team. The role implies ownership to manage a small pricing team and oversee pricing activities, delivering high-quality pricing and product development solutions for clients across Asia.

As a senior pricing expert, you will work with Underwriting and Client Solutions to craft creative pricing approaches while ensuring robust actuarial principles and effective stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Qualified Actuary with international professional credentials.
• At least 8 years in Life (Re)insurance with pricing and product experience.
• Experience in team leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong analytical and communication skills for stakeholder management.
• Understanding of underwriting and claims interaction with pricing.

Responsibilities

• Lead pricing and product development initiatives for Asia Protection.
• Manage a small pricing team and own pricing activities from end to end.
• Peer review team output and ensure high technical standards.
• Collaborate with Underwriting and Client Solutions to deliver client solutions.
• Oversee pricing terms, model reviews, and market pricing considerations.

Skills

Qualified Actuary (IFoA/SOA/IOAA)

Team management

Pricing strategy

Actuarial principles

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Underwriting collaboration

Analytical thinking

Experience in Life (Re)insurance

Hands-on pricing tools

Education

Actuarial qualification (IFoA/SOA/IOAA)

Tools

SAS

SQL

Emblem

Job description

The Role

We are looking to hire a Pricing Manager within Asia Protection Pricing team at Pacific Life Re, a major global player in Life Reinsurance. The candidate will join as a senior member of the team and take on the ownership to manage a small team and pricing activities.

Job Title

Manager, Pricing, Protection, Asia

Job Description

The Role

We are looking to hire a Pricing Manager within Asia Protection Pricing team at Pacific Life Re, a major global player in Life Reinsurance. The candidate will join as a senior member of the team and take on the ownership to manage a small team and pricing activities.

As an influential and innovative protection expert, your expertise in pricing, product development and experience analysis will be crucial as you work alongside Underwriting and Client Solutions teams to deliver creative solutions to meet the needs of our clients across the region.

Duties

Responsible for the timely and accurate delivery of pricing terms and product development solutions to clients ensuring high technical standards of analysis and the production of high-quality pricing to clients and internal stakeholders.

Key Tasks Include

• Manage detailed assessment of opportunities from pricing and risk perspective, with consideration on business strategy.
• Manage projects/quotes with minimal support.
• Peer Review team members’ work

Responsible for assigned on-going treaty reviews, pricing methodology and model reviews.

Support Client Solutions team in building and maintaining effective relationship with clients and promoting the business' brand.

Provide leadership and mentoring within pricing team, ensuring appropriate development for direct reports.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified Actuary (IFoA, SOA or IOAA)
• At least 8 years of working experience in Life (Re)insurance role with strong understanding of actuarial principles and processes.
• Prior experience in relevant markets and team management.
• Good technical and analytical skills and a demonstrable ability to plan, prioritise workloads and deliver tasks on time.
• Sound understanding of underwriting and claim practices and the interaction with pricing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ensuring appropriate stakeholder management during the end-to-end quote process.
• Awareness of systems such as SAS, SQL, Emblem is an advantage.

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits

Leave

• 23 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave

Healthcare

• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Term Life Insurance coverage of 5x basic annual salary, Group Accelerated CI of 1x annual basic salary and Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment of 3x annual basic salary
• Optical & Dental benefits
• Additional flexi benefits

Wellness

• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations

You Can Be Who You Are

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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