Pricing Data Scientist

Pricing Data Scientist Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Pricing Data Scientist to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Recommend acquisition of third-party data as appropriate, whilst working within the agreed budget;
  • Discover relationships and patterns in complex data providing underwriting insight into the business, developing predictive models as required;
  • Monitor and analyse the performance of portfolios and schemes, including undertaking burning cost analysis across all products lines;
  • Help to deliver complex and diverse projects with a commercial focus utilising your analytical techniques;
  • Network closely with other parts of the group, contributing as appropriate to group initiatives and obtaining buy-in to the MGA’s developments;
  • Review and evaluate existing pricing models and propose and, subject to sign-off, implement appropriate change;
  • Ownership of management information for the MGA incorporating internal and external data.

Requirements:

  • Experience of analysis in personal lines insurance market;
  • Ability to complete and also to communicate complex issues in a clear manner;
  • A technical expert in data science and/ or qualified/ part-qualified actuary;
  • Analytical programming skills preferred (SQL, SAS, VBA or R) as is knowledge of predictive modelling techniques and machine learning.