Job ID: 11223

Entity: AXA UK

We’re making a significant investment in pricing capability with a comprehensive pricing transformation programme. This includes the implementation of new pricing software, market-leading modelling, and performance monitoring approaches. Our pricing structure is more aligned to focus on the key disciplines of technical pricing, market pricing and pricing governance. As a result, several vacancies have arisen, with a need for strong data science, actuarial and governance skills.

We have a new opportunity for a Pricing Data and Systems Manager to join us. Reporting into the Head of Pricing Governance and Controls, you’ll ensure all pricing and underwriting systems are robust and well controlled, leading on pricing change delivery and incident resolution should systems fail. You’ll play a central role in defining and prioritising pricing data requirements, collaborating with the data team to ensure delivery of accurate and timely data.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning all pricing and underwriting systems, ensuring they are robust and well controlled.
• Leading on implementation of all pricing changes across Radar and legacy systems, ensuring requirements are understood and delivered on time.
• Delivering testing strategy and the process for pricing and underwriting systems to ensure pricing as intended, targeting zero error rate.
• Representing pricing on digital and other transformation programmes to ensure Radar requirements are considered and understood.
• Ensuring required pricing data is available when needed, coordinating data requirements across the pricing team, ensuring priority is clear and liaise with the data team to deliver appropriately.
• Building strong relationships with other pricing teams, data, IT and transformation.
• Leading the pricing data and systems team, coaching and developing direct reports, ensuring priorities are aligned with pricing objectives.
• Owning pricing EUC strategy, ensuring all EUC’s are delivering pricing or underwriting as intended, with appropriate data security measures in place and rolled out effectively to users.

What you’ll bring:

• Comprehensive understanding of PMI products, pricing and underwriting approaches.
• Expert in deploying complex rating models/algorithms in Radar or equivalent software.
• Experience of system testing approaches and approval processes prior to deploying live.
• Demonstrable resilience and experience of successfully managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to grasp and explain a range of technical concepts to all business stakeholders.
• Excellent mathematical skills.
• Solution focused, with a strong focus on delivery, and desire for continuous improvement.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude, valuing the contribution of others and understanding the need for collaboration.
  
  

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years. 

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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