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Head of Home and Motor Pricing

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Job Introduction

** Remote/home working allowed **

At Saga we believe in exceptional experiences everyday whilst being a driver for positive change in our markets and communities. Our values are precision pace, empathy, curiosity, collaboration. If this resonates with you then it’s time to do the best work of your life!

And right now, we are looking for a Head of Home and Motor Pricing at an exciting time in Saga’s history. As a Group, Saga is taking to the seas in our brand new, luxury cruise ships, leading the market with innovative insurance and financial products. You will be managing all aspects of Saga’s pricing for its home and motor insurance products to support the delivery of the insurance strategy, customer outcomes and contribution to the achievement of the overall P&L for Saga Services.

You will bring an understanding of the drivers of commercial success in a Personal Lines insurance business.

And in return, you can look forward to all the responsibility and involvement of an integral role, providing you with a rewarding and fast-paced career with an excellent benefits package. 

If this is of interest to you then we would be keen to hear from you!

Role Responsibility

As a Head of Home and Motor Pricing your top 5 responsibilities will be:

  • Delivering a pricing strategy for your product lines that supports a growing business over a 5-year time horizon.
  • Create an environment that allows your team to continuously improve pricing effectiveness.
  • Be a data leader; constantly seek data items which hold value in both net and gross pricing, extract competitive advantage from Saga’s unique data assets.
  • Keep abreast of market pricing trends (both technical capability and customer or regulator sentiment); anticipate partner rate changes and take actions or prepare arguments to ensure Saga maintains competitive advantage.
  • Develop innovative responses to create value from pricing.

The Ideal Candidate

  • In-depth knowledge of the critical aspects of successful pricing. 

  • Understanding of the drivers of commercial success in a Personal Lines insurance business. 

  • Knowledge of the markets for your product lines; key competitors, latest innovations, threats, and opportunities. 

  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a set of business goals. 

  • Capability to present information and compelling, persuasive arguments to senior colleagues, business stakeholders and external business partners. 

  • Critical thinking; ability to assimilate information from various sources in order to decide on a course of action, use judgement and risk-based assessments to make recommendations for action even in the absence of full information. 

  • Experience managing and resolving incidents; playing a leading or supporting role as appropriate. 

  • Confident decision making in both ‘BAU’ and ‘incident management’ modes. 

  • Experience leading teams (of direct reports and project teams) and prioritising workloads to meet agreed objectives. 

  • Ability to develop and mentor colleagues in both technical skills and other business skills. 

  • Ability to manage multiple projects and deal with overlapping deadlines. 

  • Understanding of the application of a range of insurance administration and data management systems (e.g., Radar Live, Guidewire, SQL, Tableau etc). 

  • Customer focus; demonstrate that you think customer-first when developing and delivering pricing strategies. 

  • Ability to manage to successfully manage the simultaneous delivery of commercial results and exceptional customer outcomes. 

  • Insurance industry knowledge. 

  • Latest pricing practices. 

  • Data analytics. 

  • Experience operating in a dynamic trading environment. 

  • Scenario planning. 

Our values are: 

  • Precision Pace - Always owning and making things happen 

  • Empathy – Always aware of others 

  • Curiosity – Always asking why 

  • Collaboration – Always one team, the Saga team!

Package Description

The standard benefits when you join Saga include: 

  • Remote working available where possible

  • The choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per year 

  • Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service 

  • Workplace Pension 

  • AXA Be Supported 

  • A range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies

About the Company

Having spent our first 30 years focused on travel, Saga launched Saga Magazine and developed home and motor insurance and financial services in the 1980s. Private medical and pet insurance followed in the 1990s, along with the launch of our own cruise ship operation. The strength of the Saga brand provides the Group with the ability to develop in-house or partner with suppliers to offer our customers and members highly differentiated, competitively priced products which meet their evolving needs.

Saga exists to help our customers and members lead the life they want to lead. To succeed in this, we know that the most important thing to do is to listen to our customers and members. At the heart of our business model is our drive to know more about our customers’ wants and needs so we are best placed to serve them.

Applying this approach over the past 70 years has enabled us to 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 and is recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.

When you join Saga you will see that 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. Creating a culture in which everyone feels welcome and offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement is incredibly important to us. Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity.

We are an official Disability Confident Committed employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required.

We are a member of the 30% Club and partner with Women Ahead which offers us a fantastic opportunity to take part in a leading, global, cross-company, leadership mentoring scheme to champion female talent.

We are a signatory of the Armed Services Covenant and have received a Silver Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme. 

 

 

To all recruitment agencies: Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the HR Recruitment Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.

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