Fantastic opportunity to join our Market Pricing team as a Lead Pricing Analyst, assisting to plan and deliver pricing related projects to deadline and quality standards. They will directly influence the future growth of the business, with key deliverables to increase conversion, retention and overall company income and profitability. 

The role will involve the management of detailed analysis of data using sophisticated machine learning and statistical techniques within price optimisation to recommend pricing actions which increase volume, income and profit. 

In addition, the Lead Pricing Analyst will build pricing capability and core skills within the business, as well as influence the strategic direction of retail pricing in the wider Ageas UK Group. 

Main Responsibilities as Lead Pricing Analyst - Market: 

• Management, development and coaching of Pricing Analysts. 

• Develop, validate, review, and approve predictive machine learning models; exploring new machine learning techniques to improve model predictiveness. 

• Development and delivery of up to date and accurate datasets for modelling, pricing and monitoring; exploring new data sets and their ability to enhance models. 

• Development and maintenance of pricing models and support for their deployment. 

• Carry out price optimisation and improve on existing price optimisation processes using innovative techniques; prepare recommendations for senior stakeholders. 

• Maintenance and application of models of customer and market behaviour; incorporating machine learning into behavioural models. 

Skills and experience you need as Lead Pricing Analyst - Market: 

• 3+ years’ experience in insurance pricing or related analytical background. 

• Highly skilled in the use of programming language (e.g. SAS) to manipulate data. 

• Experience in SOME of the following predictive modelling techniques e.g. Logistic Regression, Log-Gamma GLMs, GBMs, Elastic Net GLMs, GAMs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines and Neural Nets. 

• Experienced in the use of a programming language (e.g. R, Matlab, Python or Octave). 

• Knowledge and/or experience of Price Optimisation. 

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.