Lead Pricing Implementation Analyst: Ageas have an exciting opportunity for an Lead Pricing Implementation Analyst to join the Pricing team in our Eastleigh office. The Lead Implementation Analyst role will involve the management and deployment of pricing models and underwriting rules across risk and retail pricing which will be key ensuring Ageas meets its strategic goals.

Main Responsibilities as Lead Pricing Implementation Analyst:

• Develop, validate, review and promote Radar Live models for Risk and Market Pricing.
• Integration of models ahead of deployment
• Responsible for XML changes within model
• Build and deployment of Percayso quote manipulation rules.
• Manage Radar defects arising from other areas of business from BAU/Standard/Project changes.
• Radar version/licence updates
• Enrichment capstone specification maintenance
• Provide impact assessments for BAU, Standard &Project changes.
• Ownership and maintenance of Pricing Product Spec documents
• Ensuring accuracy of Private Car, Commercial Vehicle, Motorcycle and Household rates and rules on internal systems and third party SWH.
• Management, development and coaching of more Junior Implementation Analysts.
• Excellent at creating innovative solutions to problems and constantly striving to improve process.
• Iteratively creating and improving best practices and standards for the team, and ensuring they are clearly communicated and adopted.
• Ensure close collaboration and alignment with Product teams to ensure knowledge sharing and understanding of what the product builds are trying to achieve.
• Deputise for the Pricing implementation manager when necessary.

Skills and experience:

• Educated to A- level or equivalent with numerical disciplines studied.
• Experience in insurance pricing, underwriting or product writing.
• Experienced user of Radar and Radar Live
• Proven experience of devising solutions to business problems.
• Good understanding of messaging structures and transform for various SWHs and how they interact with Ageas platforms
• Effective coaching of junior staff and development of pricing skills.
• Experience of dealing with and influencing colleagues at all levels up to, and including, senior management and directors.
• Ability to understand complex rating structures and offer solutions for efficient builds
• Self-motivated, with the drive, energy and ability to work on own initiative.
• Very strong planning, prioritisation and organisational skills.
• Delivery of high quality pricing projects from start to end with minimal oversight
• Ensuring high engagement amongst direct reports
• Value added to the organisationHigh level contextual awareness and ensuring application of the following areas in ones thinking:

1. The customer
2. The regulator
3. The business

• Proficiency in building radar models and investigative tasks

Some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Lead Pricing Implementation Analyst role based in Eastleigh:

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.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities.

Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.