Retail Portfolio Pricing Director

Allianz Personal have an exciting opportunity for a Portfolio Pricing Director to join the team covering our Retail brands (LV= and Allianz) and Partnerships.

About you

The Portfolio Pricing Director - Retail will lead the team responsible for setting the retail prices for the customers of some of the biggest brands in UK Personal Lines. This is a critical role in delivering our business plan and in ensuring we deliver good customer outcomes consistently and that our products offer value for money.

You will oversee our Portfolio Pricing teams, identifying and executing trading opportunities, ensuring our portfolios are performing optimally as well as leading our R&D and Price Optimisation teams.

You will ensure that our pricing strategy is effectively executed, that our products achieve target returns and that we continuously comply with risk appetite and regulatory expectations.

Your Focus

• Lead, motivate and develop a sustainable and diverse team of pricing professionals


• Oversee the performance of our Retail portfolios


• Contribute to the definition of our pricing strategy and ensure that it is effectively executed


• Work closely with Technical Pricing to quickly identify emerging trends and execute actions accordingly


• Oversee input into new proposition development


• Lead the identification of trading opportunities to enhance income, profitability and quotability


• Contribute to the transformation of our end-to-end pricing & underwriting capability towards our best-in-class ambition


• Sponsor, lead or participate in strategic projects


• Ensure that an appropriate control environment is effectively operated


• Oversee AZP responses to relevant PRA / FCA requests


• To be a member of the Pricing & Underwriting Leadership team


• Actively participate in governance forums


• Comply with the FCA Conduct Risk principles
  
  To be successful for the role you will have:


• Extensive Personal Lines pricing experience at senior management level in the Retail channels (especially Motor and Home)


• Excellent knowledge of the market and regulatory environment


• Experience of operating in a technically driven pricing environment


• Experience of leading teams using industry leading pricing software (e.g. Radar Live)


• Significant experience of leading, motivating and managing multi-site teams


• Highly effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bring multi-functional teams together across pricing, underwriting, claims, actuarial, distribution and beyond to effectively execute plans


• Experience of overseeing complex change programmes


• Highly commercially focused


• Customer-centric, putting the customer at the heart of decision making and delivering pricing outcomes that are consistent with Allianz purpose and values and embedding Consumer Duty into day to day working


• Ability to manage Executive and Board level stakeholders within Allianz UK and Group


• Drive to deliver and able to do so through others


• Ability to see the bigger picture


• Ability to balance customer needs with business needs


• Ability to make complex issues simple to understand


• Collaborative approach with can do attitude and strong influencing skills


• Excellent communication skills, including presenting and report writing


• Numerate with strong analytical skills and attention to detail


• Proactively identifies opportunities or risks and generates ideas for improvement


• Uses initiative to manage multiple priorities


• Educated to degree level or with relevant equivalent experience


• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. FIA, ACII or FCII
  
  This role is an Allianz Executive cluster in the LV= Structure. We want you to love what you do that's why we've put together a benefits package that recognises and rewards a job well done.


We'll give you:

• 30 days' holiday


• An excellent pension plan, min 3% employee contribution, matched up to an Employer contributions of 14%


• An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance


• Private medical insurance which you can upgrade to family cover


• Other flexible benefits including discounted retail vouchers and dental insurance


Our Ways of Working

Do you need some flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen.

We are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Our Purpose and Values

We secure your future

Be Brave | With Heart | Everyone Counts | Inspiring Trust

Our purpose and values are more than just words on a website - they are the why and how of LV= GI. They influence everything we do and guide us how to do it. Created by our people, for our people, they shape our culture, bring us together, and inspire us to be the best. Building an inclusive culture for us all to succeed.

Diversity & Inclusion

At LV= GI, we value diversity and inclusion and back this up with our accreditations. LV=GI is EDGE certified for gender inclusion, members of the Women in Finance Charter, members of the Stonewall Diversity Champion programme, signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, and an Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

We have a range of employee networks focusing on gender inclusion, cultural diversity, LGBTQIA+, disability and long term health conditions (including neurodiversity), intergenerational and life stages, parents and carers, mental wellbeing, menopause support and armed forces and veterans, all supporting you to bring your best and authentic self to work.