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Head of Pricing
Senior Technical Price Leader / Director of Pricing (UK)
Working Hours
This role is available on a part-time, job-share, or full-time basis.
Location
You can be based out of our London, Birmingham, or Aspden (whitley) office with regular travel to our London office.
Salary
- Competitive salary
- Car allowance
- Annual bonus
The Opportunity
This is a pivotal leadership opportunity focused on ensuring that pricing remains a technical differentiator and a clear driver of:
- Underwriting performance
- Profitable growth
- Business plan delivery
Across one of the UK’s largest insurance businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Report directly to the UK Chief Underwriting Officer and operate as a key member of the Underwriting Leadership Team.
- Lead a pricing function of around 50 colleagues, setting technical standards, methodologies, tools, and operating rhythms that convert pricing expertise into:
- Robust pricing insight
- Independent challenge
- Measurable business value
This role is central to leveraging advanced pricing capability as a strategic differentiator within the business.
Core Duties
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Work closely with underwriting, distribution, and finance leaders to provide:
- Objective pricing adequacy assessments
- Strategic recommendations on rate strength, model enhancements, and performance drivers
- Clear translations of complex analyses to actionable recommendations, supporting:
- Trading decisions
- Remediation strategies
- Organic growth initiatives
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Ensure pricing function evolves as a technical centre of excellence, fostering:
- Team development (capability, accountability, succession planning)
- Prioritisation of high-value business areas
- Adherence to Technical Actuarial Standards (TAS), regulatory, and Consumer Duty requirements
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Maintain commercial judgment while providing:
- Influential technical challenge in time-sensitive underwriting contexts
- Business alignment for underwriting, finance, and distribution partnerships
Flexible Working
Many employees at Zurich benefit from flexible arrangements, which could include:
- Part-time, job-sharing, or hybrid working
- Elements of working from home
- Compressed working hours
Discuss your ideal flexibility during the interview.
What Will You Be Doing?
Core Accountabilities
- Lead the Pricing function as a technical centre of excellence, ensuring pricing is a core enabler for:
- Underwriting performance
- Profitable growth
- Business objectives
- Shape a futures-focused pricing strategy, directing:
- Tool optimisation and AI implementation
- Innovation in advanced analytics
- Market trend awareness and responsiveness
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Technical Leadership
- Build and enhance pricing governance, standards, and frameworks, ensuring:
- Methodologies are robust, calibrated, compliant with TAS regulations
- Pricing processes are regulated and Consumer Duty-aligned
Stakeholder & Commercial Influence
- Provide independent, commercially grounded challenge on:
- Pricing adequacy
- Model outputs
- Portfolio decisions
- Distill complex technical insights into actionable business recommendations, improving:
- Trading
- Remediation
- Growth
- Appetite management
Cross-Functional Impact
- Collaborate with distribution, underwriting, and finance leaders to ensure:
- Objective pricing insights support business objectives without overstepping portfolio ownership boundaries
- Drive adoption of pricing actions, tracking the measurable, tangible business outcome from pricing recommendations.
Leadership & Team Development
- Deliver high-performance pricing teams, improving:
- Standards of excellence
- Prioritisation discipline
- Succession planning
- Budget accountability
- Lead as a leverage ingredient in the Underwriting Leadership Team, shaping future underwriting & pricing effectiveness.
What Are We Looking For?
Technical & Analytical Expertise
- Profound experience in pricing methodologies, model calibration, rate adequacy, and pricing governance
- Proven ability to convert numerical analysis into clear business recommendations
Strategic & Influential Capacity
- Strong senior stakeholder influence, balancing technical credibility with credible challenge
- Comfort in steering complex commercial decisions with imperfect data
Leadership & Team Dynamics
- History of teambuilding and high-performing culture in technical/analytical roles
- Accountable, purposeful leadership in matrix environments
Communication & Commercial Persuasion
- Excellent ability to:
- Distill jargon-laden analysis into actionable insights
- Adapt language for internal/external stakeholders
Priority & Delivery Focus
- Mastery in prioritising high-value technical activities during trading cycles
- Adept at margin specification and trade-offs in dynamic corporate contexts
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What Will You Get in Return?
Zurich embraces the principle of benefit flexibility to ensure our vast workforce receives tailor-made support. Benefits include:
- 12% non-contributory pension scheme
- Annual bonus scheme
- Private medical insurance
- **Flexibility to buy up to 20 extra days leave or manage existing holiday entitlements
- Broad spectrum of additional perks
Full benefits details are available on our [Zurich UK employee benefits webpage](link tiekkoht).
Who We Are
Zurich aims to be a responsible, sustainable, and globally impactful commercial leader, driven by:
Environmental & Social Commitment
- Long-standing insurance heritage with 65,000+ employees
- Global vision invested in future-ready methodologies
Our Purpose & Values
We promote dignified growth—balancing:
- Sustainable impact
- Employee flourishing
- Collaborative culture
Performers thrive in Zurich, celebrated for curiosity, optimism, and professional growth.
Our Culture
Zurich champions diversity with mutual respect:
- Perspectives are valued in over 65,000-strong teams
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) support cultural & social mobility engagement
Wellbeing astuteness remains paramount—physical, mental, career ursa is embedded in our values.
Corporate Giving
- State-of-the-art charity initiatives through Zurich Community Trust
- CEO-styled employee volunteering supported with £100M+ in funding philanthropy.
Application Process
We tasked commit to equitable & inclusive hiring practices—no biases encouraged.
Applicants with protected characteristic requirements may submit reasonable adjustments by emailing recruitment@uk.zurich.com.
For alternative application access, email recruitment@uk.zurich.com.
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