Pricing Modelling Consultant

• Join a team with varied exposure and an innovative approach to products and pricing processes
• Manage and develop junior colleagues to help deliver the team’s objectives
• Part time hours applications welcomed, flexibility to work from home up to 80% of your time

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Pricing Development team who are responsible for Demand Modelling and Pricing Innovation. We’re offering the chance to join an innovative and inclusive team who share common goals and a collective purpose of giving our members exactly what they want at a fair price.

You’ll be a key leader within the team, managing and supporting junior colleagues as they learn and develop in their roles. You’ll also work with and influence peers and senior leadership through great communication, and an ability to make the complex, simple.

In this role you’ll provide a lead in the development, implementation and testing of general insurance demand and competitor models to ensure effective market understanding and to maintain market par capability. You’ll benefit from early and increasing involvement in innovative projects, and with access to senior management and leadership teams, you’ll have ample scope and plenty of opportunity to make your mark.

Over time, you’ll grow to be a subject matter expert, able to guide others in best practice. As a contributor to this ‘blue sky thinking’ team, your creativity will propel our Pricing practices forward, fostering continuous improvement across the team.

From day one, you’ll become a valuable member of the Pricing team and a key contributor to the business, where you’ll have a voice, where you can make a lasting impact and where you will continue to grow both personally and professionally. You’ll also find a focus on collaboration, training and support, helping you become the best you can be, whilst at the same time enjoying a breadth and depth of work, we think you’ll find hard to beat.

This role is known internally as Pricing Development Consultant

You'll bring your strong interpersonal skills, able to motivate and improve the performance of those around you. You’re accomplished in technical insurance pricing and with experience of directly managing, coaching or mentoring junior colleagues- team leadership is a key part of this role and you’ll be eager to develop in this area. You’re comfortable challenging yourself and others to achieve higher levels of quality and output to gain greater results. Ideally with general insurance background in either personal or commercial lines, as well as detailed and up to date knowledge of ‘pricing best practice’, you’ll have:

• Proven experience of working in a Pricing team, with personal accountability for the delivery of modelling or innovation work
• Direct involvement in building pricing models, including specific responsibility for the end-to-end design of the model build, whether GLMs/GBMs or Machine Learning methods
• Expert product knowledge for the market sector you’re operating in and a proven ability to conduct peer reviews.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary between £55,000 - £65,000 per annum depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and are one of only 57 companies across the globe, and only one of two organisations with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2023 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021 and Glassdoor's 2023 list of the 50 Best Places to Work in the UK today.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.