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About The Role
Team - Pricing
Working Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in either the Vitality Bournemouth or London Offices. Full time hours
What this role is all about:
As a Senior Actuarial Manager within the Health Pricing team, you will be responsible for identifying, defining and delivering on impactful pricing opportunities aligned to the pricing strategy of the business. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for senior internal and external stakeholder relationships and interactions, as well as for key components of our pricing process and tools.
Key Actions
1. Implement the Actuarial Control Cycle:
* Data Management:
o Use expert judgement and domain knowledge to review data and model outputs.
o Complete data analysis.
o Provide innovative solutions to address the problems.
* Modelling:
o Question assumptions and ensuring a robust rationale.
o Recommend the most appropriate solution to internal/external stakeholders.
o Strategically assessing and presenting the risks and opportunities associated with the solution.
* Reporting:
o Answer challenges and robustly justify assumptions and solutions.
Distil and Communicate Information to Stakeholders:
* Brief and present to senior management, contributing to strategic and business planning processes.
* Engage beyond the scope of immediate needs to define future requirements and identify opportunities for future optimisation.
Build and Transfer Skills and Knowledge:
* Set the standards, share expertise and act as a point of reference for the team.
* Coach Actuaries and Actuarial Specialist/ Managers, identifying gaps and creating learning opportunities.
Manage Self:
* Take full responsibility for work quality and that of the team.
* Maintain a can-do approach to find solutions and overcome difficulties.
* 'Manage up' by asking questions, asking for advice, and keeping stakeholders informed of progress, managing expectations and forming effective working relationships.
* May lead a team, contributing to and implementing functional strategy.
* Budget forecasting, providing general direction and support to the team, building a high performing and engaged team, driving continuous improvement.
Collaborate Within and Across Teams:
* Know and communicate your responsibilities and those of others.
* Focus on achieving agreed end results.
* Share ideas and actively listen.
* Communicate clearly and timely.
* Maintain a positive attitude and help others do the same.
* Keep an open mind when discussing problems.
* Meet deadlines and quality standards.
* Organize and share information appropriately.
* Apologize for mistakes and be open to constructive feedback.
* Mediate between team members and settle disputes fairly.
* Understand success as achieving both personal and team goals.
What do you need to thrive?
* Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries or equivalent, or has significant skills obtained through many years of specialist knowledge.
* Experience of working within financial services, particularly in health or life insurance.
* Knowledge of SQL, writing and editing complex queries to extract and process data, e.g., using SQL Server Management Studio.
* Knowledge of Python and associated data processing libraries (e.g. pandas, numpy).
* Knowledge of more advanced visualisation/dashboarding tools such as Power BI.
So, what's in it for you?
* Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
* A pension of up to 12% - We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
* Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits
* Life Assurance - Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
* Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been.
* Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
* Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
* Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
* Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
* Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
* Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
* Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
* Be there for you when you need us.
* Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
About You
About Us
We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!
Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1 - long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives - they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people - and because we care.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait.
Diversity & Inclusion
We're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.
Vitality's approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
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