Technical Pricing Manager | Guildford, UK

Location: Guildford/hybrid Salary: Dep on exp + annual bonus + car allowance + benefits

Who we are Allianz is a global insurance company serving across 70 different countries, but from the very first day you join our team you'll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world-class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture.

Role description Want to play a key role in transforming pricing for one of the UK's largest insurers? Join Allianz and be part of a Global organisation that is committed to defining new standards for Commercial pricing capability and investing heavily in tools and people to deliver it.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Pricing Manager in our Commercial Pricing team. The purpose of this role is to lead the development of risk models to support the Underwriting and Technical function in achieving the Corporate Plan targets. The Pricing Manager will be constantly seeking to innovate across all aspects of pricing, including data, software tooling, technical approaches and the best means of collaboration with other teams to deliver our pricing sophistication to market.

Key Responsibilities

• Updating and developing technical risks models and demand models for commercial products
• Development of pricing structures and strategies to achieve growth and profitability objectives
• Supporting the Implementation of pricing models in a timely and precise manner
• Support the delivery of transformational changes to enhance our pricing capability
• Driving innovation and an increased sophistication into our Pricing approach, including managing projects to provide new insight through additional data sources
• Overseeing the implementation of new tools to undertake improved analysis
• Ensuring technical components delivered meet Allianz Group Technical Excellence standards and enable our Pricing capabilities to become 'certified'
• Provide training, direction and technical reviews to the team working with you
• Defining and implementing the appropriate BAU pricing rhythm of activity within the team
• Ensuring our Mid Corp pricing approach follows the internal governance process and meets regulatory requirements
• Act as key owner of your specialism within the Pricing team, including communication and collaboration with other teams such as the Account team, IT, Finance and Actuarial.

Skills & Experience To be a success in this role, you will either be a proven capable Pricing Manager or have operated as a successful number two and are ready for the next step. Alternatively, you may have delivered in a senior capacity in one element of the Pricing delivery and now wish to broaden your remit. In addition you will be:

• Educated to degree level in a numerate discipline or equivalent experience
• Appropriate professional qualifications preferred such as Actuarial and/or CII
• Experience working on cross team/department projects to achieve a common goal
• Strong analytical and statistical experience including GLMs
• Confident with analytics tools including Emblem, Radar, SAS, R, Python, SQL, etc.
• Experience and understanding of insurance and products
• Experience of coaching and developing analysts within a team

What we will offer you

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that's perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Car allowance
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life cover
• Group Income Protection
• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Flexible working arrangements
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts

Diversity & Inclusion At Allianz, we value diversity and inclusion and back this up with our accreditations. Allianz is EDGE certified for gender inclusion, members of the Women in Finance Charter, members of the Stonewall Diversity Champion programme, signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We have a range of employee networks focusing on gender inclusion, cultural diversity, LGBTQIA+, disability and long term health conditions (including neurodiversity), intergenerational and life stages, parents and carers, mental wellbeing, menopause support and armed forces and veterans, all supporting you to bring your best and authentic self to work.

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