Home APP Pricing Analyst

Job Title: Pricing Analyst - Home APP

Location: London / Leicester / Bexhill

Welcome to Hastings Direct

We’re a digital insurance provider with a clear strategy to become the best and biggest player in the UK market. As a company, we’ve made huge investments in our technology, pricing, data and analytics capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture and substantial investment in our people. And as a Finance team, we're doing exactly the same – building a market leading finance technology platform, investing in our team and our approach to leadership development, with a real focus on commercially adding value to the business. 

The fact you’re now reading this job advert means we’ve tempted you to find out more about #lifeatHD. If you like what you see, we hope you'll consider joining our team.  

We have high standards and understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you’re excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure, we would love to hear from you.

Role overview  

To deliver our profit and growth targets for Home, through the use of innovative analytics, creating a new product within the Home eco system, which leads to segmented pricing changes that we can apply to our live rates and generate incremental growth for the Home portfolio.

Job details

Analysing various data sources (including loss, policy, quote and market data), to identify opportunities to improve our risk pricing to help deliver the ambitious growth targets we have for our Hastings home business 

Developing & delivering new insight, including the integration of new data, new innovative techniques and ways of working 

Working closely with Actuarial, Data Science, Underwriting, Data Engineering, Account Management, Retail and Counter Fraud / Digital teams 

Critically review technical models produced by actuaries and data scientists 

Analyse the above models to determine the optimal way to combine these model outputs to give a starting point for our pricing 

Analyse the models to identify segments where prices can be improved 

Create tools that enable us to source new pricing leads on an automated basis 

Ensure that we are meeting customers’ fair and reasonable expectations and provide fair outcomes for our customers

Essential skills/experience:  

• Strong numeric and problem solving skills 

• Strong Analysis and coding experience. Python preferred, but if experience is with other coding languages then this can be trained up 

• Comfortable working with and analysing numerical/statistical data 

• Appetite to learn new skills 

• Collaborates well with colleagues from own team and other teams 

• Good communication skills, written and verbal 

• Good knowledge of the personal lines insurance market preferred, but other backgrounds will be considered, including non-insurance backgrounds 

The interview process:

Our interview process involves the below: 

• Recruiter screening call 

• 1st stage interview with hiring leader

• 2nd Technical interview Panel format

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive – what this means to you is if you’re applying for a job with us, you’ll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website

Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary you will also receive…

Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach – please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail

Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus

Financial wellbeing – as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes – discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support

Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs

There's more! – 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your  weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more ….

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we’ll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve.

At Hastings Direct, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.

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