Pricing Specialist (Home Pricing Optimisation)

Pricing Specialist (Home Pricing Optimisation) - Salary c. £65,000

Location - Leeds

This is a great job for an experienced pricing professional with strong expertise in personal lines pricing who is looking to shape market-leading pricing strategies and influence the future direction of UK home insurance. If you enjoy combining commercial judgement, data-driven insight and technical pricing expertise to deliver sustainable growth, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

A bit about the job

Aviva's Personal Lines business is entering an exciting phase of growth following a period of strong profitability. As a Pricing Specialist within the Home Optimisation Development team, you'll play a key role in enhancing our home pricing and underwriting capabilities across the Direct Line Retail Pricing business. Working as part of a specialist team, you'll develop and improve price optimisation approaches, support wider pricing strategy development, and help drive sustainable growth. You'll collaborate closely with colleagues across underwriting, trading, data and analytics, balancing customer outcomes with strong commercial and risk performance

Skills and experience we're looking for

• Strong understanding of the UK general insurance market, ideally within personal lines home insurance

• Proven pricing and underwriting expertise with excellent commercial judgement

• Strong financial and statistical knowledge, with the ability to turn insight into actionable pricing decisions

• Ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders across multiple business areas

• Experience with pricing and analytics tools such as Radar, EMBLEM, SQL and/or Python would be advantageous

What you'll get for this role

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary c. £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary, (actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.)

• Generous pension scheme - e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone

We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please email seema.rana@aviva.com