Allianz UK
Head of Actuarial Pricing
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Role Description
Allianz UK Personal has an exciting opportunity for Head of Actuarial Pricing to join our team.
Purpose
The purpose of this role is to lead the Actuarial Pricing function, providing strategic direction, insight, and oversight to support the delivery of underwriting performance objectives within the Corporate Plan.
Responsibilities
- Accountability: Ensure pricing strategy, capabilities, and outputs enable effective underwriting and trading decisions, while driving innovation across data, technology, analytical methodologies, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance pricing sophistication and commercial performance.
Location
This role is based in one of our London Bishopsgate, Leeds, Bournemouth, or Birmingham offices, with an expectation to attend the office 50% of the time.
Salary Information
Your pay will be based on your experience, skills, and location and forms part of our total rewards package.
About You
- Leadership: Lead the actuarial pricing function for personal lines, ensuring pricing strategy, activity, and outputs support the delivery of the Corporate Plan, customer outcomes, and regulatory requirements.
- Forecasts and Estimates: Own the delivery of pricing forecasts and Pricing Best Estimates, providing robust analysis, insight, and recommendations to inform underwriting and trading decisions, while supporting commercial performance and business objectives.
- Capability Development: Develop and maintain pricing capability, frameworks, and methodologies, collaborating across the full value chain including Underwriting, Finance, Reserving, Data, Change, and Technology to deliver strategic pricing outcomes and business initiatives.
- Collaboration: Build strong collaborative relationships with Pricing, Underwriting, Claims, and Reserving Teams and senior stakeholders to ensure the timely delivery of accurate forecasts, pricing, and claims insights.
- Reporting: Lead reporting across key governance and business forums, including Smart Circle, Pricing & Underwriting Forums, Insurance Committees, and Group reporting processes.
- Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop high-performing pricing teams, ensuring appropriate resourcing, clear objectives, career development, and a positive, engaging working environment.
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Essential Skills
- In-depth understanding of pricing and/or reserving discipline and insurance market covering competitors, comparable products, regulatory considerations.
- Expertise in actuarial methods and principles, ideally within pricing, with the ability to apply technical knowledge to solve complex business challenges and support decision-making.
- Highly numerate and able to translate detailed analytical work to a broad business audience.
- Proven ability to lead complex analysis and translate insights into business outcomes.
- Experience in people management, leading multiple teams/strands of work.
- Understands key processes, procedures, and targets and is able to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.
- Ability to identify and define market best practice.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovation by identifying opportunities for process improvement and enhancing analytical capabilities.
Desirable Skills
- Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries or equivalent qualification with extensive relevant post-qualification experience.
- Exposure to pricing model development and advanced analytics techniques.
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage and understanding of ethical AI in pricing.
What We Will Offer You
- Recognized and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you.
- Flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training.
- Benefits include:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance-related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home, and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
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Our Ways of Working
- We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive.
Inclusive Support & Accessibility
- At Allianz, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring, or coaching.
- We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.
Contact
- Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for any assistance with the recruitment process including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications. Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk
- For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Mckevitt
Closing Date
15/09/26
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
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