Are you looking for that next step up in your Actuarial career? Are you someone with a desire to drive our Delegated Authority (DA) Pricing team forward through your excellent leadership, organisational and communication skills? If so, this could be your next role and we would love to hear from you!

This role sits within our Delegated Authority (DA) pricing team, which includes both Personal Lines and SME portfolios across multiple lines of business. You’d be leading one of the sub-teams (focussing on SME portfolios) that carries out top quality analysis to support our MGA & DA partners with their pricing and support the wider business in tracking and improving their performance against their financial targets.

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

What will you be doing?

Working within the Delegated Authority (DA) Pricing team as a team lead for the SME portfolios, you will be responsible for:

• Pricing strategy – formulating and executing overall strategy for the DA pricing team in collaboration with key stakeholders, ensuring the team is set up for success in both the short and longer term
• Pricing analysis– instigating and overseeing high-quality pricing analyses, working with our DA partners on model improvements and enhancing the quality of their pricing.
• Portfolio monitoring –developing our portfolio monitoring framework, ensuring outputs that can enable timely and accurate tracking of performance, and extensive insight to improve profitability
• New deals – working collaboratively with other functions to diligently assess and communicate the performance of potential new DA portfolios, and ensuring a robust onboarding process when deals are agreed
• Process improvement – leading the development of efficient and robust systems & processes through innovation
• People management– managing a team of actuaries with a range of experience levels, supporting their technical and professional development and equipping them for successful careers
• Collaborating–building strong relationships, and influencing, a variety of key stakeholders (both internal and external), providing a first class service & trusted pricing input into key business decisions
• Professionalism – demonstrating excellent knowledge of relevant actuarial disciplines and standards, to ensure you are able to provide first class service to our stakeholders and act as a strong role model to the Pricing team
• Culture– leading by example to nurture a friendly, positive and supportive team environment

What are we looking for?

• Extensive experience in Actuarial roles
• Fully qualified actuary or part qualified also considered
• Experience of people management
• Experience collaborating with a wide range of senior stakeholders
• Excellent market, risk and business awareness
• Highly numerate and analytical, with strong technical ability & financial awareness

What will you get in return?

Everyone’s different. That’s why at Zurich, we offer a wide range of employee benefits so our people can choose what fits them and their life. Our benefits provide real flexibility so our people can make considered choices and tailor their benefits throughout the year.

Our benefits include 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme, annual company bonus, private medical insurance and the option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday.

We’re passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity. Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, is one of the longest-established corporate trusts in the UK.

Our Culture:

At Zurich, our sense of community is strong and we’re particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion, which we’ve won numerous awards for. We want our people to bring the whole of themselves to work and ensure everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, beliefs or culture.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays
• Option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday
• 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme
• Annual company bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Income Protection
• Life cover - four times your salary
• Access to a wealth of support from our wellbeing partners