Insurance Pricing Graduate         

Salary - £30,000

Permanent   

FT – 35 hours per week

Hybrid – Home and London Hub

As a Pricing Analyst you will be contributing to Saga’s street pricing to support the delivery of the insurance strategy, customer outcomes and contribution to the achievement of the overall P&L for Saga Services (SSL).

As a graduate or recent graduate, you’ll join the wider Pricing & Projects team, and your work as our new Pricing Analyst will contribute to helping our pricing capabilities become the market-leading standard.

As a graduate or recent graduate, you will come from a mathematical background, bringing with you an understanding of how to organise data and identify trends. 

With a detailed onboarding plan, we will introduce you to the world of pricing and personal lines insurance, setting you up for a successful career.

In this role, you will work closely with your immediate pricing team to develop and monitor pricing models, prepare data for modelling, select and apply appropriate statistical techniques and make judgements and recommendations for price changes.

This fantastic role is complex and challenging and can make a key difference to the company's future profitability. You can expect to make real contributions to a variety of projects from the outset.

We offer flexibility over where you work – you choose a place where you feel most comfortable and productive, either from home or in one of our hubs in London or Kent. We come together with a purpose to collaborate, typically twice a month at our hub in Kings Cross, London. 

Everyday our colleagues deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.

We offer total flexibility over where you work you choose a place that you feel most comfortable and productive, either from home or in one of our hubs in London, Ashford or Sandwich.

BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL COLLEAGUES:

• Our working week is 35 hours per week, these can be worked flexibly to suit your working style
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave up to 5 extra days
• Pension scheme matched up to 10%
• Life assurance policy on joining us
• Wellbeing programme
• Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises and holidays
• Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Grandparents leave
• Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%
• Income protection
• Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform

As one of our Pricing Analysts you will be accountable for the following areas; 

• Proactively use data to find areas of opportunity to drive commercial value and competitive advantage, delivering profitable growth for Saga’s insurance business. 
• Model, interpret and monitor business data to identify and confirm market trends, product opportunities and new / changing rating factors. 
• Assist in development of pricing models for deployment to the rating system, making best use of Radar and other software tools. 
• Make recommendations to pricing leads based on your analysis.
• Mine, extract and interpret data to bring out insights, using innovative techniques, including machine learning. 

We are delighted to be able to offer study support for the successful applicant, therefore a strong mathematical education is essential.

• A in either Maths or Further Maths A-Level
• 1^st or 2:1 in a mathematical or equivalent degree (including Actuarial Science & Statistics)

As a Pricing Analyst you would be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Understanding of how to organise data so that it can be used to identify trends and anomalies. 
• Numerical reasoning skills to be able to explain observed trends in data with logical argument. 
• Critical thinking skills to assimilate information from various sources to form and prove hypotheses and use judgement and all available information to test and validate hypotheses. 
• Use estimates, judgement, and risk-based assessments to make recommendations for action even in the absence of full information. 
• Commercial awareness; be able to articulate the financial impacts of your work. 
• Customer focus: demonstrate that you have considered the customer impact of your work.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly, and understand how to put across complex subjects to a wide and varied audience

Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.

We’re passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Championing diversity is important to us, and diverse teams really are the best ones. We’re dedicated to creating a culture where every colleague feels like they belong. So that at Saga, more than anywhere else, you can be your best, be yourself and make a difference.

Fair consideration is given to all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over the age of 50. As champions of age inclusivity and signatories of the Age-Friendly Employer Pledge, we are proud of our multigenerational teams. We are also an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.

​Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.

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