Senior Pricing Analyst - Modelling

Job Title: Senior Pricing Analyst - Modelling

Locations: hybrid working for our Manchester Office (Salford)

Role Overview

Markerstudy Group are looking for a Senior Pricing Analyst (Modelling) to join a growing and established team.

You will be responsible for utilising your technical expertise and in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry and market leading tools to produce creative and actionable pricing solutions. This is to maximise Atlanta’s ability to meet its strategy and annual plan but should also influence that strategy through regular identification of opportunities to Pricing Managers, Head of Pricing and the Executive Committee. This role requires a large element of coaching team members and championing modelling best practices across the department.

As a Senior Pricing Analyst - Modelling, you will use your advanced analytical skills to:

Provide technical leadership on WTW toolkit (in particular Emblem and Radar) to drive forward effective and efficient solutions which deliver business requirements and add demonstrable value

Provide thought leadership on modelling concepts

Lead and manage the development of effective and efficient solutions which deliver business requirements and add demonstrable value

Ensure that all team members follow quality assurance processes and manage risk adhering to all relevant policies

Research, develop and champion the use of best practice methods and standards and ensure they are embedded throughout the department

Plan, design and lead the development of Atlanta's pricing capability.

Through ongoing research, maintain an extensive knowledge of statistical techniques to ensure Atlanta has a market leading approach to analysis and modelling.

Assist Pricing Managers in making tactical and strategic decisions.

Deputise for Pricing Managers, Head of Pricing

Key Skills and Experience:

Previous experience within general insurance pricing

Experience with some of the following predictive modelling techniques; Logistic Regression, GBMs, Elastic Net GLMs, GAMs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Neural Nets and Clustering

Experience in statistical and data science programming languages (e.g. R, Python, PySpark, SAS, SQL)

A quantitative degree (Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science)

Proven experience of modelling using WTW toolkit (Emblem and Radar)

Proficient at communicating results in a concise manner both verbally and written

Behaviours:

Self-motivated with a drive to learn and develop

Logical thinker with a professional and positive attitude

Passion to innovate, improve processes and challenge the norm

About the business:

Markerstudy is a leading provider of private insurance in the UK, insuring around 5% of the private cars on the UK roads, 20% of commercial vehicles and over 30% of motorcycles in total premium levels of circa £1.2b.  The majority of business is written as the insurance pricing provider behind household names such as Co-op, Sainsbury’s, O2, Halifax, AA, Saga and Lloyds Bank to list a few and Markerstudy also has a large and growing direct presence in the market as well.

Having acquired and successfully integrated Co-op Insurance Services in 2021 & BGLi in 2022, Markerstudy are now pursuing innovative pricing techniques, taking advantage of an award-winning insurer hosted rating platform, whilst challenging existing embedded processes