Lead a team managing home pricing strategies for Hastings Direct. Analyze data for profitability while fostering a collaborative work environment.
Responsibilities
Leading and managing a team of c.4-5 colleagues, you’ll set a collaborative environment which enables all our colleagues to achieve their best
Responsible for judging the long-term profitability of the home portfolios (including considering the long-term impact of weather) and recommending base rates that balance growth and profitability using various tools and projection methods
Analysing various data sources (including internal loss data and industry data) to form views on home claims inflation.
Liaising closely with the claims team to align views across teams
Create forecasted views of expected frequency and severity by peril, including allowing for volatile elements of losses like large and weather
Developing claims to ultimate to form views on the profitability of the business we’ve written historically and are now writing today
Work closely with the Actuarial and Data Science team which develops loss cost models to form views on pricing strength
Track our reinsurance spend and feed into strategies to help reduce reinsurance costs as a proportion of our premium
Track day to day conversion and pro-actively make recommendations on when to grow by how much, based on market condition and our internal views of profitability
Work closely with risk pricing to understand and quantify the impact of recent price changes on the profitability of emerging written business.
Oversee the creation of dashboards and automated reports that will ensure we have the right information at our fingertips to make the right decisions
Report views of profitability and trading performance to senior management on a regular basis
Main point of contact for home performance for several internal teams including claims, reserving and finance
Requirements
Collaborates well with colleagues from own team and other teams
Enjoys leading a team and setting a working environment in which all our colleagues can thrive
Able to turn data into insights and get to the “so what” of what the data is telling us
Ability to present teams findings to other areas of the business
Experience of developing claims to ultimate and the pros and cons of different techniques that can be used for this
Comfortable working with and analysing numerical/statistical data
Thirst for making change
Appetite to learn new skills
Inquisitive, curious nature
Critically evaluates information
Enthusiastic, positive attitude
Good communication skills, written and verbal
Confidence to express thoughts and views
Good knowledge of the personal line's insurance market preferred, but other backgrounds will be considered
Benefits
Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach – please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail
Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus
Physical wellbeing – as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen
Financial wellbeing – as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award-winning package which includes – discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support
Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs
27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more …
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