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Senior Home Feature Engineering Pricing Practitioner
Apply locations London - Riverbank House, Bristol - The Core, Leeds
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Job requisition id: R-18995
About Us
At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.
Pricing and Underwriting is a complicated world, where historical data, geospatial information, and mathematical models meet talented analysts. Pricing our products is a fine line between balancing our business goals and customer needs. That’s why our Pricing Practitioners, Data Scientists, and Underwriters are the best of the best. They reduce risk and predict future events ensuring our business can continue to grow whilst each and every one of our consumers gets the best price.
Join us as a Feature Engineering Pricing Practitioner in the wider Risk Pricing team within our Home Tribe.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll take charge early on, soak up new experiences, and most importantly, your ideas will positively influence and shape what we do – making an impact on our customers' lives. We’ll utilise your skills where they are most needed whilst also giving you the opportunity to build and grow the breadth of your expertise.
Working within the Home Feature Engineering team, you will be at the heart of creating new and improved Risk factors that allow DLG to fully understand what drives claim costs across all of the Home perils. You’ll be able to combine a wealth of external and in-house data with industry-leading technology to explore the underlying trends that add sophistication to our pricing. You’ll be making an impact from start to finish, from data preparation to model builds, to deployment into live pricing!
1. Work with the Home Personal Lines leadership and external data providers to harness the most value from all available data sources.
2. Lead on prioritised projects within Pricing and Underwriting, focusing on projects involving the use of GIS technology, creating and maintaining market-leading geospatial rating tools and data assets.
3. Strive continuously to improve the statistical validity and efficiency of all modelling, projection processes, and techniques.
What you’ll need
1. Educated to degree level or equivalent in mathematics or a related degree.
2. A minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a general insurance analytical role or equivalent experience in another industry.
3. Experience of ArcGIS applications necessary.
4. Experience of using SQL, Python, RADAR & EMBLEM ideal but not essential.
5. An effective communicator at all levels. Be able to demonstrate strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills, including a proven ability to interact with Executive and Senior Management.
Ways of working
Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.
Office location – Leeds, London, Manchester, or Bristol.
What we’ll give you (Band 4)
We wouldn’t be where we are today without our people and the wide variety of perspectives and life experiences they bring. That’s why we offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model combining the best parts of home and office-working, varying with the nature of your role. Our core benefits include:
1. 9% employer contributed pension.
2. 50% off home, motor, and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover.
3. Additional optional Health and Dental insurance.
4. Up to 10% bonus.
5. EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax-efficient way.
6. 25 days annual leave, increasing each year up to a maximum of 28.
7. Buy as you earn share scheme.
8. Employee discounts and cashback.
9. Plus many more!
Being Yourself
Difference makes us who we are. We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work – that’s why we champion diverse voices, build workplaces that work for people, and invest in the things that matter. From senior leadership to inclusivity networks, adaptive working to inclusion training, we’ve made it our mission to give you everything you need to be authentically you. Discover more at directlinegroupcareers.com.
Together we’re one of a kind.
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